such as renowned trumpeter, Marcus Belgrave.”


The relationship she de-


veloped with Belgrave has taken her around the world, and instilled in her a desire to give back to the community that helped her development, including mentoring young jazz artists at DPS. Indeed, as Greene states in relation to the power of reading in young lives, “Not only may there be a pull toward new relationships, toward community, but such readers may be moved also to new modes of self-definition, new beginnings arising from an emerging awareness of both difference and possi- bility.”3


I apply this idea to young jazz


musicians in Detroit, who have found new ways to define themselves through music and music mentoring partner- ships.


In a city defined by blight, poverty and violence,


philanthropists, profession-


als, school administrators and students have joined to create a musical com- munity that provides not only hope, but also a sense of pride and agency. The partnership between the Detroit Jazz Festival and the Detroit Public Schools has succeeded in allowing DPS stu- dents to imagine a new and better fu- ture for themselves and their commu- nity.


1


Detroit Jazz Festival. Education: Detroit Jazz Festival. Retrieved July 8, 2013, from Detroit Jazz Festival: http://www.detroit-


jazzfest.com/jazzinfusion.html 2


Bass, 1995, p. 41). 3


Greene, p. 42.


Patricia Hall has been teaching mu- sic for 15 years in the Detroit Public


Maxine Greene, Releasing the Imagina- tion: Essays on Education, the Arts and Social Change (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-


Schools system, and is currently music teacher at Charles L. Spain School. As a choir director, her students have consistently been rated Excellent in the Michigan School Vocal Music Associa- tion’s District festivals. Hall received her Bachelor’s degree


from Wayne


State University and her Master’s de- gree from Oakland University, where she is now a King/Parks/Chavez Fel- low pursuing her doctorate in music education. Her dissertation research is a qualitative study of the interactions between urban educational systems and the school learning experiences of middle school choral students. Hall leads Taslimah’s Ragtime Band, an en- semble dedicated to performing and preserving the music of early 20th cen- tury African-American composers and their music.


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