Listen to jazz music and independently analyze form, tone, style, era, dynamics, articulation, time signature, characteristic rhythms, time, balance, blend, key, monde and/or pitch.

Analyze the development of the jazz music(melody, arrangement, changes, or improvisation) as a whole or in smaller sections.

Analyze the characteristic sounds, licks, tone and other elements of well-known singers and/or groups. Identify these singers and/or groups. Identify these singers and/or groups on recordings aurally, only by listening to the characteristic sounds or ideas presented in the music.

Analyze and reflect on just one voice or instrument from the beginning to the end of a musical selection (e.g., Does the singer or player perform the same way all the way through? How was it different or the same? What did he/she sing or play that the student also might be able to sing or play?)

Listen to music analyzing and reflecting on the melody, other voices, bass line, drums and percussion, background lines, background vocals, roots and chord progression and sing with the recording.

Discuss the history, cultural heritage and effect of current events as these apply to the musical selection.