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This YouTube Channel is dedicated to jazz music education, sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center. It is filled with videos about jazz pedagogy and heritage. This is a great site for music educators to keep their jazz education up-to-date, and for students who have an interest in jazz music. Students are able to take video lessons or learn about different styles and composers of jazz. What a great resource about America's own style of music.

Jazz at Lincoln Center's youtube channel is a great repository of both live performances by the JALC Orchestra and instructional and background videos on jazz techniques and history. I share something from this channel to my students on a weekly basis.

Great article about Wynton Marsalis' view on jazz and music education. He has entered a partnership to bring jazz music into music education. As an indigenous form of American music, we need to preserve and teach it to our students.

Great article about Wynton Marsalis' view on jazz and music education. He has entered a partnership to bring jazz music into music education. As an indigenous form of American music, we need to preserve and teach it to our students.

These four short videos give a quick and clear understanding of the basic concepts of Jazz.  

Created by the people of Jazz at Lincoln Center, this site is dedicated to spreading jazz education to every school in the country. Jazz Academy has a few different programs, some of which cost money. However, Essentially Ellington is free and member directors get access to a number of resources and free Duke Ellington charts, some of which are accessible at the middle school level.

A "what's happening" in the jazz world, but also an extremely valuable tool for music educators in North America. Thanks to programs like "Essentially Ellington" there has been a real push to provide music educators with the best resources and opportunities, even going as far as providing free charts for any band program to apply for. Keeping jazz alive in our schools is their mission.

A youtube channel that focuses on providing short lessons on jazz history/tradition, instrumental technique, and the jazz language.

This YouTube channel is a great resources for jazz educators in both a private and ensemble setting. The videos cover the whole jazz orchestra, providing videos of technique as well as ways to develop students' improvisational skills.

Jazz Academy is a YouTube library with free lessons on jazz for educators and students. Lessons range from the instrument specific techniques, jazz history, master classes with professional musicians, and lessons on different styles of music. From these videos, students receive important information from professional jazz musicians. As a jazz educator, there are also videos that improve my understanding of specific techniques and styles.