The Flying Jazz Kittens Book/CD set contains music and ideas to explore jazz style rhythms and beginning improvisation activities for children in the elementary music classroom, K-8.

It is designed for the elementary music teacher who is looking for some fun, hands-on activities in the area of jazz music to incorporate into their curriculum. Finally, here are some materials designed just for you! No prior jazz experience is necessary. All of the activities in this book have been tested in the music classroom and edited with the help of other music teachers, jazz musicians and many classroom experiments.

Each activity is simple with many variations to try so that teachers can use what works best for them. The instruments used for the activities are centered around those typically found in the general music classroom. This could include drums, xylophones, glockenspiels, recorders, and various small percussion instruments.

Choirs, beginning band and private students will also find this book useful for vocal/ instrumental jazz warm-up activities with the CD using the open blues tracks in the keys of concert C & G. Scat words are printed in the book to copy and laminate to use in activities throughout the book. The activities can be easily adapted for traveling music teachers.

Also included are four blues melodies with fun "Kid Friendly" words to sing. The CD contains recordings with vocal and performance tracks of these melodies in keys that will work for young voices (C & G) as well as keys that will work well for improvising on recorders or xylophones (B & E). The possibilities are endless!