Global Jazz Presentation Seeking diversity, identity, and Social Change Through Music
By Danilo Perez Beginnings
• My Father’s Thesis about Elementary Education (1968)!
• He stated every class should be taught through music!
• All teachers should have an understanding of music and should be able to use it as a tool for teaching their subjects
• My early years with math and all subjects!
• A Magical Moment That Changed Me: The Washing Machine Story • Music Therapy has been proving scientifically the therapeutic aspects of music for decades. !
• Music is a human experience that helps with concentration, memorization, helps retain information, helps develop gross and fine motor skills, reduces psychical and psychological pain, improves communication, improve sleep patterns, relieves stress and anxiety, among many other things • Early Teaching projects: a band in school, Jamboree Juventud, Master classes at home!
• The connection between Panama and jazz history!
• The Panama Jazz Festival (VIDEO)!
• The Danilo Perez Foundation (VIDEO) !
• Dizzy Gillespie, a true ambassador of Global Jazz, he was trying to unite people from different cultures all the time.!
• Dizzy encouraged you to develop your own take of the music and explore your individuality in a collective improvisational model!
• Dizzy encouraged me to find an identity. Reviewing the Panamanian/Latin American folklore, utilizing the clave in odd meters, connections with Monk, and the binarization of tertiary rhythms in the music of the Americas.!
• Finding the unifying factors of my music and jazz music. !
• The Globalization of Jazz
The BGJI Model
• Inter-connective learning: Using music as a lens to view the world (Creating collaborations with the arts, sciences, biology, and other human experiences) This process Empowers Creativity! • Social change through music: Using music to help in the restoration of communities, your family, your neighborhood, your city, your country! • Music in the restoration of nature: Use your music to re- connect with nature, appreciate it and help restore it. Nature is a huge source of inspiration. (Messian, Hermeto Pascual). Record and transcribe animals, document endangered species, compose for awareness. A Global Jazz Lab
• Passion Education, students need to be Ambassadors for peace! • CREATIVE inter-connective multidimensional music thinking , Comprovising.! • Practice The Unknown - “Fear Training”! • Create RELEVANT musicians! • Wayne Shorter: “You can rehearse the unknown” (VIDEO)
The Future
! • Global Jazz as the creative laboratory to practice equality and tolerance! • Global Jazz in the elementary school system! • Collective Improvisation, a tool for value creation https://www.berklee.edu/focused/global-jazz Berklee College of Music, Boston MA USA