Teaching School Jazz

Chad West is Associate Professor and Chair of music education at Ithaca College. Prior to his appointment, he served as a public school band director for eight years, as Associate Conductor of the Atlanta Wind Symphony, and as a trumpeter for Princess Cruise Lines. He has published over 20 music education journal articles and has edited two books with Oxford University Press. He is a frequent presenter at state, national, and international music education conferences on the topics of preservice music teacher education, popular music education, and jazz pedagogy. Mike Titlebaum is Associate Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at Ithaca College, where he directs the Jazz Ensemble, coaches combos, and teaches jazz saxophone and courses in jazz standards, arranging, repertoire, and pedagogy. He has played in many of New York's world famous musical venues, including the Blue Note, Smalls, Augies, Fez Under Time Café, and the infamous CBGB's as well as the pit orchestra of the Broadway musical Cats. He has performed with dozens of internationally recognized artists and groups such as Jason Robert Brown, Red Rodney, the Mingus Big Band, Cab Calloway, Natalie Cole, Billy Taylor, Mel Torme, Branford Marsalis, Paquito D'Rivera, and many others.

Preface
Contributors
Acknowledgments
About the Companion Website

Part I: School Jazz Education

Ch. 1: Broad Landscape of School Jazz Education
Chad West

Ch. 2: Jazz for Non-Jazzers
Chad West

Part II: Language of Jazz

Ch. 3: Social Language of Jazz
Andrew Goodrich

Ch. 4: Pedagogical Language of Jazz
Russell Schmidt

Ch. 5: Internal Language of Jazz
Mike Titlebaum

Part III: Teaching Beginning Jazz

Ch. 6: Beginning Woodwinds and Brass
Bruce Foreman Dalby

Ch. 7: Beginning Rhythm Section
Chad West, C. Michael Palmer, Michael Grace, Daniel Fabricius

Ch. 8: Beginning Improvisation
Mike Treat

Part IV: Teaching High School Jazz

Ch. 9: High School Woodwinds and Brass
Andrew Goodrich

Ch. 10: High School Rhythm Section
Daniel Fabricius

Ch. 11: High School Improvisation
Michael Grace

Part V: Instrument-Specific Jazz Pedagogy

Ch. 12: Jazz Vocal
Catherine Gale

Ch. 13: Jazz Saxophone
Mike Titlebaum

Ch. 14: Jazz Trumpet
Frank Gabriel Campos

Ch. 15: Jazz Trombone
Christopher Buckholz

Ch. 16: Jazz Guitar
Bob Sneider

Ch. 17: Jazz Piano
Russell Schmidt

Ch. 18: Jazz Bass
Nicholas Walker

Ch. 19: Jazz Drums
Gregory Evans

Part VI: Jazz Literature
Ch. 20: Choosing Jazz Literature
Daniel Fabricius

Ch. 21: Teaching Jazz Standards
Nick Weiser

Ch. 22: Arranging for School Jazz Ensembles
Matthew Clauhs