Jr. Music School Musical Creativity The Making of a Visual Jazz Opera Composer Bob Barboza has been working with audio collage for several years.  His main musical art form can be called visual jazz that gets performed in a visual jazz opera.  He mixes photography, visual arts and jazz into a “Visual Jazz Collage.”  We invite you to view the instruments used for this unique and original style of American Jazz.   Barboza’s first jazz opera was entitled, “Cabo Verde Dreams.” It was performed at the Richard & Karen Carpenter Theatre at California State University Long Beach.  He used a mixture of Cape Verde melodic influences along with World Music, and American Jazz.   Barboza’s second jazz opera is designed to support painters, photographers, and spoken word artists and will be a musical audio and visual collages.  From this point on the term “Visual Jazz Collage” will be used to describe this art form.  Barboza works in odd musical time signatures with melodies influenced from world music, classical music and jazz.   We have included photos of the musical instruments used by Bob Barboza in this form of visual jazz collage music.       Bob Barboza's Visual Jazz Setup Bob Barboza's Visual Jazz Collage Setup Visual Jazz Collage Setup Sound Effect Lap Jazz Opera Bob Barboza Jazz Opera Two Ingrid Pastorius, Jr. Music School Super School University has lost a valuable member of our music department.  Ingrid Pastorius (1950-2011) was helping to keep music alive in our schools.  Ingrid Pastorius, who was married to virtuoso electric bassist Jaco Pastorius between 1979 and 1985, died on Monday from complications following an aortic aneurysm, according to a source close to the family. She was 61. A native of Indonesia, Ingrid also spend time in Holland and Puerto Rico before moving to South Florida at age 20. She then worked as a flight attendant for Eastern Airlines and reportedly was spotted by Jaco before they met on a flight between Fort Lauderdale and New York. Ingrid and Jaco began a relationship in 1977 prior to his work on the "Shadows and Light" tour with Joni Mitchell. They then married -- Jaco's second marriage -- in July of 1979 in Guatemala and bought a house in Deerfield Beach with money he made on tour with Mitchell. Their fraternal twin sons, Felix and Julius Pastorius, were born June 9, 1982. Kids Talk Radio has posted two audio interviews and one Cape Verde Jazz Morna dedicated to the memory of Ingrid Pastorius.  We will find a new director of Jr. Music School and continue the work that she inspired.  We will do what we can to keep music alive in the schools. We invite you to listen to Ingrid Pastorius.  This was her last audio podcast with Kids Talk Radio. Interview: http://www.KidsTalkRadioUSA.com Jazz Department: What do we have to do to keep jazz alive in our school? Contact Information Super School University Distance Learning and After School Programs Super School University California Office 1857 Josie Ave. Long Beach, CA 90815 (562) 594-8580 Office (562) 598-3589 Fax E-Mail:Suprschool@aol.com