[TPIN] Listening and learning about music

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In a message dated 4/1/2007 11:42:29 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
good at nccn.net writes:

There is  one decent FM jazz station I can receive, and I suspect KXJZ 
has it's own  button in your car, too, Mike.. Unfortunately, jazz just 
isn't that  popular an art form these days. Schools are a  mirror.

-Greg



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Ah ha, but since so many of the students have jazz band classes that  the 
teachers are being PAID to teach, then they shouldn't be a "mirror" of the  
outside world.  Those teachers should be the ones who are on a "mission" to  change 
the listening habbits of their students and try to get them turned on to  
jazz music.  That should be part of the job that they are getting paid  for.  If 
they don't play music for the kids and then encourage them to do  more 
listening on their own, maybe jazz and classical music will get even less  popular 
than they are today.
I have said for years, that when those band parents raise WAY too much  money 
for marching band uniforms, some of that money should be taken to create a  
listening library for the music students.  Then the kids should be able to  
check out the CD's ----- and if I was the band director, they would have  to do 
at least three one page written reports on what they have listened to  -- as 
part of their grade.  That would sure help.
Just think how many young trumpet players might then know about Miles, and  
Clifford, and Clark and Chet.
(Or Bud, and Maurice, and Phillip and Armando.)
Mike Vax



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