"Teaching Jazz provides resources that can be immediately put into action in the music classroom." -- Wynton Marsalis

Need to tune up your jazz program? Creating one from scratch? This handy how-to covers eight categories of learning and six levels of achievement for students from Kindergarten through high school. You also get plenty of latitude in designing curriculum. Highlights include:

• Rationales for jazz education 
• Scope and sequence of instruction with teaching recommendations
• Teaching jazz in instrumental, general, and vocal music classes

Included are lists of selected jazz pedagogy resources; journals, periodicals, and books; standard tunes by level of difficulty; band arrangements by grade; combo arrangements; publishers and retailers; artists; listening suggestions; improv play-along materials; videos; and online resources.

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-- Fran Ponick, March 11, 2008, © MENC: The National Association for Music Education