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Overcoming' Race with Jazz

Timeline of Jazz Education

Integrating jazz education into part of high school and college education is a remarkable step in music history. Not only it does recognize jazz as a formal musical form, respecting jazz players as serious musicians just like traditional western classical musicians, this decision also changes the previous person-to-person learning approach which had limited the size of jazz community. Bring jazz into the classroom, however, inevitably effected by the already existing social inequality that the jazz classroom in universities and colleges are usually filled with white students, since at current state, black students still have less accessibility to the higher education, such as the college.

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It may be argued with equal force that one of the most important shrines in the history of jazz was Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem. Minton’s was the place where Bebop was born; the place, really, where the foundations of modern jazz were established. Founded in 1938 by the saxophonist Henry Minton (from whom the establishment took its name) Minton’s Playhouse became, over the next decade, the setting for a revolution in jazz.