09 Advanced Jazz Poems and Paintings

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Chapter 9: Synthesizing: Advanced Lesson - Jazz Paintings and Poems

These are examples of fifth-grade students' paintings and poems.

by Dakota	Suzy Q Suzy Q wearin’ her baby blue Rectangle top hat with the Kool Kids Whooshin’ to her rhythm sound At the Backstreet Café She’s real hip with her music While she’s dancin’ To her hip-beat! By Dakota	Trumpet Trains What a mellow yellow fellow That’s what they say Mr. Kit plays the brassy trumpet When the keys get snappin’ The trumpet gets rappin’ When Grams gets clappin’ The train gets blastin’ Mr. Kit plays along ‘n the train gets a little song SSSSSSSSSizzle along Mr. Kit blows the trumpet While the train shuffles away By Kristen	by Kristen

Crazy n’ the Keys

You see him here
You see him there
You see him almost anywhere
He’s on a boat, he’s on a train,
He’s on a yellow triangle plane
He has golden arms and hands of steel
With all the fans tappin’ their heels
There’s blinkin’ black diamonds all around
N’ that’s because it’s filled with sound
Crazy n’ the keys
Is so smooth with the ladies

By Amber

by Amber

by Zoi

Gramps
n’ his groovin’ green keyboard

When Gramps comes to town
With his groovin’ green keyboard
No one is bored when
He starts playin’ his chords
With his ruby red hat
Everyone starts to snap
There ain’t no zzzzzz’s
When Gramps plays his krazy keys.

By Zoi

JEALOUSY

JO JO’s sax roars so loud
Cramer Cosmo gets jealous in a radical way
He wishes the spotlight wasn’t on his Enemy
with people clappin’ away
Cramer WHOOSHES and Washes his trombone
Some way
In front of the audience of a wide café

By Zach

By Zach

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