T: Next we'll listen to a piece of music. After listening, please discuss the questions in Activity 1 on page 50.

Sample discussion dialogues:

1. S1: Yes, I've ever heard it in a CD shop near my home.

S2: No, this is my first time to listen to it.

2. S: I think it is called jazz.

3. S: The birthplace of that combination, Jazz, is said to be New Orleans. Originated in the early 1600s, Jazz is deeply rooted in American social history.

4. S1: Jazz started out with a mixture of many types of music. Jazz combines elements of African music with elements of Western European music.

S2: Yes. Created and developed primarily by African Americans, jazz is the derivative of various kinds of musical forms and cultural experiences.

S3: Their music was based on simple melodies and complex cross-rhythms mixed in with verbal slurs, vibrato, syncopated rhythms, and "blues notes".

S4: The songs they sang were mostly spiritual or sung to pass the time of hardship and hard labor. The songs were actually encouraged because the workers seem to work better with the soothing effects of the music.

S5: Their music was characterized more by memorization and improvisation, and not of formal training.

5. S1: I love jazz music very much. I have tens of Jazz CDs in my house and listen to jazz everyday.

S2: Me, too. I own a World Space Radio and listen to "Riff". If you have chance to enjoy them, you'll be amazed how soothing it is to the soul. That's the effect of good music.

S3: I just love the sound of Davis' trumpet. His interpretations of Spanish classics in Sketches of Spain chill me to the bone and bring tears to my eyes.

S4: If I need some real emotions, Davis Kind of Blue is probably the standard to beat when it comes to improvising. Absolutely stunning.

S5: I don't like 'listening' music but I love 'dance' music'. Jazz is an art that can only be enjoyed by a matured mind... a mind that can comprehend its message.

T: What do you think of future's jazz?

S1: I think that the music fans are much more open-minded today in comparison with the times of "jazz-rock".

S2: Because now the situation has changed a lot, especially because the modern music schools have sprouted everywhere in the world.

S3: The result is that now we have such artists like John Patitucci, Marcus Miller, Greg Osby that range from the jazz tradition to the contemporary urban music with the same excellent artistic results.

S4: I'd say the trend is that we won't have anymore a specialized jazz audience in the future but simply a different level of competence in listeners, including or excluding jazz (but also classical music, opera, ethnic and folk).

S5: On the other side, when the level is high， everybody enjoys it and nobody cares about categorizations and styles except critics...

S6: I think it's necessary to be cool in music, on stage and in front of it as well like us