Rick Lawn

# ISBN-10: 0073313254
# ISBN-13: 978-0073313252
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Experiencing Jazz, as the title suggests, provides an immersive experience using an integrated text, CD-ROM, and audio CD anthology designed for the non-musician or musician whose primary focus is not jazz.

Listening to seminal recordings, learning about how musicians create the music, and hearing the music first hand through an interactive companion CD-ROM rich in helpful tutorials as well as audio and video examples helps the non-musician to fully appreciate and become involved in the jazz experience.

The CD-ROM offers excerpts of interviews with many of the performers who made jazz history, as well as other valuable information designed to create active, informed and discerning listeners.

The textbook helps to place important musical trends in a larger cultural and historical context, helping the reader to relate jazz history to other familiar events. It does not overwhelm with long lists of musicians, but focuses on the primary innovators who moved the music in new directions.

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Now includes the most up-to-date information available for jazz educators.
ISBN-13: 9781141329090 ( 978-1-141-32909-0 ) ISBN-10: 1141329093 ( 1-141-32909-3 )
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New charts, lists and bibliographies have been included as well as a complete chapter on Computers, Technology and Jazz Education.

This text is a must for the director with little experience with jazz ensembles or for those wanting to update their skills in areas necessary to create a comprehensive jazz program in your school system.

The Jazz Ensemble Director’s Manual has been the text of choice in many college jazz classrooms and the new revisions will enhance its continued use. This book is literally loaded with charts, drawings, forms, photographs, tables and music examples and will be a source of information for years to come.

• Includes a compact disc recording that allows you and your students the opportunity to hear as well as see the musical examples in the “Phrasing and Articulation” chapter.
• Every practical aspect of establishing a solid jazz program is covered, ranging from the basics of starting an ensemble to effective rehearsal techniques that get the most from your students.
• This text will give you an in-depth understanding of jazz chord notation, phrasing and articulations.
• Includes a chapter on thejazz combo which presents information on the setting up of a combo in addition to suggested repertoire considered standard for combo training.
• The publisher index has been revised to reflect recent changes in publishing areas and the extensive bibliography of selected materials for jazz improvisation has been updated to include recent publications.

Reviewers have said, “This text had it all…now with a revised edition available, it has even more! This text is an excellent source for jazz educators. Richard Lawn’s straightforward approach and comprehensive presentation will benefit all jazz educators but especially novice instructors. This is a great resource for any jazz educator.

Contains Chapters On:

Starting a Jazz Ensemble Program, Jazz Ensemble Instrumentation, The Jazz Combo, Selecting the Music, Ensemble Set- Up, The Jazz Ensemble Conductor, Rehearsal Psychology and Techniques, Phrasing and Articulation, Contest and Concert Preparation, Sound Reinforcement, Understanding Chord Notation, The Rhythm Section, Teaching Basic Jazz Improvisation, Computer Technology and Jazz Education.

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