Jazz Pedagogy: The Jazz Educator's Handbook and Resource GuideA comprehensive guide that opens the doors to the world of jazz education. Find practical solutions to challenges such as the jazz concept, understanding the rhythm section, jazz improvisation and jazz styles, including a great section on Latin jazz. This innovative, one-of-a-kind handbook incorporates the Web as an ongoing resource tool that provides the ultimate in reference information. The included online media presents over three hours of audio/video demonstrations of rehearsal techniques, how to really teach jazz improvisation, and how to understand and improve the rhythm section. An essential addition to every library and/or jazz pedagogy class. |
Contents
PREFACE | 4 |
VOCAL JAZZ | 5 |
THE JAZZ PROGRAM | 28 |
THE JAZZ CONCEPT | 62 |
THE ESSENCE OF JAZZ | 95 |
Sample Lessons | 103 |
THE JAZZ ENSEMBLE AND ITS MUSIC | 119 |
Organization and Audition Basics | 129 |
How to Evaluate and Select Music That Fits Your Ensemble | 162 |
Preface | 184 |
Wind Section of the Jazz Ensemble | 236 |
How to Sing It | 273 |
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR JAZZ EDUCATION | 288 |
CONTENTS | 304 |
RESOURCE GUIDE INDEX | 317 |
APPENDICES | 371 |
Common terms and phrases
Afro-Cuban arrangements articulation audition aural skills Barnhouse basic bass line bassist bebop big band block scheduling Blue Note Bob Mintzer Book/CD Chapter Charlie Charlie Parker charts chord changes chord progression classical clave combo comping Count Basie create Dave Wolpe director Dizzy Gillespie drum set drummer Duke Ellington eighth notes Example Fake Book feel groove guitarist Hal Leonard Publications harmonic high school IAJE important instruments jazz band Jazz Conception jazz education jazz ensemble Jazz Improvisation jazz program jazz style jazz vocabulary John Kendor Latin jazz listening Mark Taylor melody metronome MIDI Mike Miles Davis music education musicians Orchestra pattern performance phrasing pianist piano play players recordings rehearsal rhythm section rhythmic samba Sammy Nestico Saxophone scale set-up Sher Music Sierra sing solo soloist sound teaching technique tempo Thad Jones trombone trumpet tune Victor Lopez Video Vocal voicings Warner Bros