The Ultimate Jazz Method

This book is a curriculum vehicle for developing improvisational skills, theory, history, tunes to listen to as a beginner, jazz vocabulary and a list of great musicians to help you meet the objective to learn how to play jazz. With 12 sequential lessons that is written for elementary, middle school students, adequate for high school and entry-level college students, each lesson covers an era of jazz beginning with the early period of the blues. 

This resource covers a wide range of information along with helpful hints and solutions that will guide the student towards learning to improvise and play jazz, complete with self-guided with objectives, goals, melodic patterns, assessment quiz and tunes with representational chord progressions. It is well constructed and easy to follow for anyone who is not experienced or an expert in the field of jazz music or jazz education - great for cross-curriculum teaching!