Happy Birthday in 8 Jazz Styles

To understand the distinctions between jazz styles, my elementary students heard the familiar song, "Happy Birthday", each week, arranged in the various jazz styles they learned about chronologically through the 20th century.

Special thanks to guests:

Joe Saylor - drums
Lauren Saylor - piano
Angelo Versace - piano
Dom Versace - guitar
Dave Pollack - alto saxophone

00:00 Ragtime
00:24 Early Jazz
00:57 Swing
01:33 Bebop
02:05 Cool Jazz
02:55 Hard Bop
03:48 Bossa Nova
04:06 Afro-Cuban Jazz

[sammy]

It’s good to hear a birthday song 8 times in different styles when no one remembers my birthday. It’s like having 8 different person singing. Thx for the great video.

[plasticboy]

I always tried to understand the different styles. Now I have a better picture. But in General Jazz seems pretty much to be playful around the notes and give them your Personal stamp;-)

[dasarbangor]

0:00 Ragtime
0:25 Early Jazz
0:58 Swing
1:33 Bebop
2:05 Cool Jazz
2:56 Hard Bop
3.47 (First half) Bossa Nova
4:06 (Second half) Afro-Cuban Jazz

[mediawolf]

Wow this is really good! There’s many “in different styles” videos and they’re entertaining but this is the one I’d actually give to someone educationally. It’s accurate but listenable and full of life. My only wish would be for more styles to be included but I recognize the time effort attention to detail that was required to make even this. 🙏

[oMaarlon]

Man, I wish I could hear a full song of this hard bop. It was amazing

[waalter]

Was watching this thinking it had hundres of thousands of views... amazing work!

[dominiquepaul]

Fabulous !! My favorite is the hard bop version!😊 Thank you

[ntsikelelondlovu]

Ended with one of my favourite Jazz styles.
I couldn't help but dance!

[greysuit]

This is wonderful, you took a song that we’ve all heard hundreds of times and turned it into beautiful jazz renditions that are really enjoyable and fun to listen to.

[planetpompom]

This is awesome. I always had a hard time pinpointing how there were some kinds of jazz I disliked and some kinds I really enjoyed, so now I know how to be more specific!

[flynnjo]

OMG!!! This is just amazing! Thank you so much for this. Now when people tell me they don’t like jazz because it all sounds the same or they don’t know where to start I can show them this!

[mesirpez]

You sound like an amazing music teacher.

[highbluejasonb]

Now I know I love bebop and hard bop.
Thx.

[antknee]

Lol love the boplicity references in cool jazz

[rktcccrktcc]

Man, thats awesome, i couldeve listen to every one of this songs forever. Amazing job

[kikodasneves]

Loved the moon dreams vibe on the cool jazz one

[georgetteconstant]

Fun and a little tutorial to boot. Thanks for posting.

[gbfusion]

I so enjoyed this. What an effort to put this together. Worth a sub every day of the week!

[tstrini]

This is sooo excellent. The Cool is the coolest.

[jeannefessenden]

Thanks for this - its great! I'm playing it for my elementary kids during Jazz History Month