Suggested and sample readings for Jazz 310, Spring 2018 – all available through Cap library.
Journal Articles
The “Finite” Art of Improvisation: Pedagogy and Power in Jazz Education
Ken Prouty, Michigan State University
http://www.criticalimprov.com/article/view/346/966
The Pedagogical Imperative of Musical Improvisation
Scott Thomson
http://www.criticalimprov.com/article/view/353
Swinging within the iron cage: modernity, creativity, and embodied practice in American
postsecondary jazz education
Wilf, Eitan
American Ethnologist. August 2010, Vol. 37 Issue 3, p563, 20 p.
Schooling the future: Perceptions of Selected Experts on Jazz Education
Roger Allan Mantie
http://www.criticalimprov.com/article/view/307
Improvisation and Teaching
R. Keith Sawyer
http://www.criticalimprov.com/article/view/380/626
Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
Improvisation and Pedagogy: Background and Focus of Inquiry
George E. Lewis,
http://www.criticalimprov.com/article/view/412/659
Birth of the school: discursive methodologies in jazz education.
Whyton, Tony
Music Education Research; Mar2006, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p65-81, 17p
Can improvisation be ‘taught’?: A call for free improvisation in our schools
Maud Hickey
http://sites.northwestern.edu/cseme/files/2015/04/International-Journal-of-Music-Education-
2009-Hickey-285-99-13xegcw.pdf
Learning From the Experts: A Study of Free Improvisation Pedagogues in University Settings
Maud Hickey
http://sites.northwestern.edu/cseme/files/2015/04/Journal-of-Research-in-Music-Education-
2015-Hickey-425-45-1h4ehrv.pdf
Teaching the Ethics of Free Improvisation
Barbara Rose Lange
http://www.criticalimprov.com/article/view/964/2309
“I Feel My True Colors Began to Show.” Designing and Teaching a Course on Improvisation
UrselSchlicht
http://www.criticalimprov.com/article/view/371
Improvisation, Enaction& Self-Assessment
Dylan Van der Schyff
https://www.academia.edu/27896883/Improvisation_Enaction_and_Self-Assessment
Enacting musical emotions. Sense-making, dynamic systems, and the embodied mind
By Andrea Schiavio, Dylan van der Schyff, and Julian Céspedes Guevara
https://www.academia.edu/27257671/Enacting_musical_emotions._Sense-
making_dynamic_systems_and_the_embodied_mind
Music, Culture and the Evolution of the Human Mind: Looking Beyond Dichotomies
Dylan Van der Schyff
https://www.academia.edu/2524937/Music_Culture_and_the_Evolution_of_the_Human_Mind
_Looking_Beyond_Dichotomies
An Interview with Fred Frith: The Teaching of Contemporary Improvisation
Charity Chan
http://www.criticalimprov.com/article/view/293/617
Improvisation, Correlation, and Vibration: An Interview with Steve Coleman
Johannes Völz
http://www.criticalimprov.com/article/view/77/182
“See clearly … feel deeply”: Improvisation and Transformation
John McLaughlin Interviewed by Daniel Fischlin
http://www.criticalimprov.com/article/view/1332/1929
Musical Patchwork: Teacher Research in the Conservatoire
https://simonpurcell.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/simon-purcell-patchwork-tcm.pdf
What do they need? Exploring the art of teaching vocal jazz improvisation
Bell, Dylan
Canadian Music Educator. Wntr, 2013, Vol. 55 Issue 2, p38, 5 p.
Journeys in jazz education: Learning, collaboration and dialogue in communities of musical
practice
LEON R. DE BRUIN
International Journal of Community Music Volume 9 Number 3
Instrumental Jazz Improvisation Development
Palmer, C. Michael
Journal of Research in Music Education, 00224294, Oct2016, Vol. 64, Issue 3
Informal in formal: The relationship of informal and formal learning in popular and jazz music
master workshops in conservatoires.
Virkkula, Esa
International Journal of Music Education; May2016, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p171-185, 15p
What Is at Stake in Jazz Education? Creative Black Music and the Twenty-First-Century
Learning Environment
Goecke, Norman Michael
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461119626
Mastering the jazz standard: sayings and doings of artistic valuation
Nylander, Erik
American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 2
Relationships among selected practice behaviours and achievement in jazz improvisation.
Watson, Kevin E.
Music Education Research; Mar2015, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p57-70, 14p
Nurturing a joyful noise: examining Sun Ra's philosophies as a model for music education
Crandell, Evan and Lorenzino, Lisa
Canadian Music Educator. Spring, 2013, Vol. 54 Issue 3, p25, 5 p.
Differences between male and female students' confidence, anxiety, and attitude toward
learning jazz improvisation.
Wehr-Flowers, Erin
Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol 54(4), Win 2006. pp. 337-349.
Books
Jazz worlds, world jazz. edited by Philip V. Bohlman and GoffredoPlastino
Thinking in jazz : the infinite art of improvisation.Paul F. Berliner.
Improvisation: Its nature and Practice in Music. Derek Bailey.
The Teaching of Jazz. Jerry Coker.
The jazz language : a theory text for jazz composition and improvisation. Dan Haerle.
Jazz among the discourses. edited byKrin Gabbard.
No Sound Is Innocent: AMM and the Practice of Self-Invention Meta-Musical Narratives Essays. Eddie
Prevost.
Creative jazz improvisation.Scott D. Reeves.
David Baker's Jazz improvisation : a comprehensive method for all musicians. David Baker.
David Baker's jazz pedagogy : a comprehensive method of jazz education for teacher and
student.David Baker.
Jazz phrasing and interpretation : aspects of jazz performance, analyzed for the player : a
personal approach.Jimmy Giuffre.
Singing from the Inside Out.Ineke Van Doorn. (available in Fir Music Stores)
The jazz ensemble director's handbook : understanding the A-to-Z's of each section, including
the rhythm section. John Berry.
The jazz ensemble director's manual : a handbook of practical methods and materials for the
educator.Richard Lawn.
The complete guide to teaching vocal jazz : (including pop and other show styles). Stephen
Zegree.
Complete guide to instrumental jazz instruction : techniques for developing a successful
school jazz program. John Kuzmich, Jr. and Lee Bash
Improvisation, creativity, and consciousness : jazz as integral template for music, education,
and society.Edward W. Sarath.
Beyond time and changes : a musician's guide to free jazz improvisation. Hal Crook.
Saying something : jazz improvisation and interaction. Ingrid Monson.
Ready, aim, improvise! Hal Crook.
How to improvise : an approach to practicing improvisation.Hal Crook.
