Read more
Sing Vocal Jazz, Teach Vocal Jazz: A Holistic Guide to Vocal Jazz Performance Pedagogy provides a step-by-step, research based, field-tested set of pedagogical tools specific to vocal jazz.
List of contents
1.Who Can Sing Jazz? 2.How to Use Sing Vocal Jazz, Teach Vocal Jazz. 3.Train the Voice, then Teach the Style. 4.Why Vocal Performance Pedagogy vs. Vocal Pedagogy in Jazz? 5.The Role of Vocal Jazz Ear Training. 6.The Role of Jazz Theory in Vocal Jazz Performance. 7.Vocal Jazz Improvisation: Learning How to Listen and Learning How to Hear. 8.The Reluctant Bandleader: Working with Instrumentalists. 9.The Magic Scale and Other Unusual Musical Suspects. 10.Chart Writing and Vocal Jazz Arranging. 11.Jazz Composition and Songwriting for Jazz Vocalists. 12.Environments for Learning. 13.What is Needed to have a Solo Vocal Jazz Career. 14.Appendix.
About the author
Dr. Lenora Helm Hammonds is a vocal jazz musician, composer, arranger, and educator who currently serves as Dean of the Professional Education Division at Berklee College of Music. Distinctions include former U.S. Jazz Ambassador, two-time Fulbright Senior Music Specialist, GRAMMY Music Educator of the Year quarterfinalist, and Jazz Educator of Distinction award recipient from Jazz Music Awards foundation. Her academic leadership is conjoined to four decades as a jazz recording and performing artist p/k/a Lenora Zenzalai Helm. As a published author her work is at the intersection of jazz, intercultural maturity, and digital humanities. Look for her vocal jazz performance pedagogy textbook
Sing Vocal Jazz, Teach Vocal Jazz slated for 2025 on Routledge/Taylor-Francis. Learn more at www.LenoraHelm.com
