{"id":2186,"date":"2017-02-02T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2017-02-28T12:19:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T20:19:36","slug":"up-and-running-with-jazz-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/?p=2186","title":{"rendered":"Up and running with Jazz in Schools!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the band, under the direction of trumpeter\/educator <a href=\"http:\/\/bobbyrodriguez.com\">Dr. Bobby Rodriguez<\/a>, brings live jazz music and education to grammar school kids all over Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>We are sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/lajazz.org\">Los Angeles Jazz Society<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicpf.org\/home.php\">Musicians Performance Trust Fund<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herbalpertfoundation.org\/foundation_home.shtml\">Herb Alpert Foundation<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/culturela.org\">Cultural Affairs of Los Angeles<\/a>. \u00a0We have several more concerts coming up this month along with 2 other bands in celebration of Black History Month.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture from last year:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2188\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/?attachment_id=2188\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2188\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2188\" src=\"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/jis-2016-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"bakerbass\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/jis-2016-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/jis-2016-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/jis-2016-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jazz in Schools! 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And the year before:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2191\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/?attachment_id=2191\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2191\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2191\" src=\"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/JIS-2015-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/JIS-2015-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/JIS-2015.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jazz in Schools! 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markchristianmiller.com\">Mark Christian Miller<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drumchannel.com\/articles\/maria_martinez_bio\"> Maria Martinez<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bobbyrodriguez.com\">Dr. Bobby Rodriguez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\">Leslie Baker,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oscar_Hern\u00e1ndez_(musician)\">Oscar Hernandez<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the band, under the direction of trumpeter\/educator Dr. Bobby Rodriguez, brings live jazz music and education to grammar school kids all over Los Angeles. We are sponsored by the Los Angeles Jazz Society, Musicians Performance Trust Fund, Herb Alpert Foundation and Cultural Affairs of Los Angeles. \u00a0We have several more concerts coming up this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/?p=2186\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Up and running with Jazz in Schools!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211,"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}