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\u201cIt was a great bunch of students\u2014very energetic and a lot of fun to work with,\u201d Goods said. \u201cSo many of the students that we have in our program have come through the middle school, so it\u2019s great to give back like this. I literally thought about myself in sixth grade, when I played the drum set for the first time. And that\u2019s really what music is about\u2014those moments that you remember forever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The concert, held on March 8, followed a format that Goods uses for many 溏心vlog免费B站 jazz concerts. As the band ran through its setlist, Goods provided context for where and how the pieces fit into jazz history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey played a Scott Joplin piece, which we would consider to be early jazz, and we talked about the significance of that,\u201d Goods shared as an example. \u201cThey played a couple of different variations of the blues, and we talked about the significance of that. A couple of the guitarists did \u2018Johnny B. Goode\u2019 and we talked about how that still connects to jazz although we think of it as rock and roll.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Along the way, Goods grabbed his trombone and played a few numbers with the middle school students\u2014along with 溏心vlog免费B站 students Andrew Dyson on drums, Jude LaRoche on tenor sax, Eric Fay-Wolfe and Mason Tucker on piano, and Johnny Santini on bass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jennifer Collins, musical director at Broad Rock, said it was an invaluable experience for her students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe all learned so much from him, myself included,\u201d Collins said. \u201c[Dr. Goods] is an incredible jazz artist, having performed with other great jazz artists, and yet he could meet our 11- and 12-year-olds where they are, and connect with them. That is a rare and wonderful gift. Hopefully some of them will end up at 溏心vlog免费B站 in the future. Surely you could not find a finer 溏心vlog免费B站 jazz ambassador than Dr. Goods!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Collins\u2019 students were impressed, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI thought Jazz Band would be fun to do just for sixth grade, but after hearing Dr. Goods, I want to continue to play jazz my whole life long,\u201d said a young saxophone player and Broad Rock student named Will. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDr. Goods is an inspirational man,\u201d added Maddy, a percussionist. \u201cIf someone asked me what was the best part of sixth grade, I’d say Jazz Band with Dr. Goods.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Goods, the experience was all part of what he views as his job as both a musician and educator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI just felt like it was a unique opportunity for me to give back,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was also great to my students, to show them what community engagement is about. This is how we pass this music forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Goods hopes events like this will help to keep the pipeline open for 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s next generation of music students. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 24, 2022 \u2013 Before sharing the stage with jazz and soul greats like Billy Taylor, Eddie Harris, and Aretha Franklin, 溏心vlog免费B站 Music Professor Emmett Goods learned the musical ropes in a sixth-grade band back in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Earlier this month, Goods reconnected with his sixth-grade-self […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":84672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84671"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84716,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84671\/revisions\/84716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}