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This channel provides backing tracks for jazz standards and interviews on various topics pertaining to music, education, and jazz.

This channel provides backing tracks for jazz standards and interviews on various topics pertaining to music, education, and jazz.

Article containing large playlist of essential jazz pieces and links to historical and contemporary writing about jazz

The Jazz Education Network is a resource site for jazz educators and students. It contains advocation materials, conference schedules, and resources for music educators. 

Jazz lesson for all instruments.

Available Jazz Choir Sheet Music and Jazz Choir resources

Blog dedicated to analyzing jazz and the pioneers that established the art.  Provided with rich historical context and a wealth of pictures, this could be used really well with a high-level jazz course.

This is a website that uses videos and games to teach students about jazz and instrument identification. Is definitely geared toward younger students, probably in a general music setting. However, I could see it being used with middle school jazz band students as well.

This is a website that consists of jazz lesson plans that supplement jazz programs in schools.

This website offers an enormous quantity of material propaedeutical to learning jazz music and all its different aspects. Scales, ear training, chords, chord progressions, chord substitutions, jazz repertoire. A premium membership is available in order to access upgraded features.

Website of the Jazz Education Network, for professional jazz educators, includes information on upcoming conferences, resources

Regina Carter is a jazz violinist. Not only is she an incredible performer and composer, but she has helped make the violin a more approachable jazz instrument.

This is a documented series of articles primarily surrounding jazz music and improvisation. Other topics on this website and the articles therein include world music and music education.

Cool resource for Jazz Band students.

This is a helpful website for students interested in jazz. Students can read more about the history of jazz, learn about specific artists, and get tips for improving their own playing.

This is a great resource that I plan to use with my Jazz Band students.

Great source that contains a good jazz history database as well as a lot of performance practice tips.

This article discusses tips for jazz ensemble directors. It covers how the band could be set up and the importance of each section. It covers a key concept of having your students listen to jazz to understand it.

Earl MacDonald, professor of jazz at the Univ. of Connecticut, has create this treasure trove of resources for teaching jazz improvisation, jazz theory, and jazz piano. It contains what is essentially a complete curriculum for teaching jazz improvisation that can used with singers as well as instrumentalists.

One of my favorite jazz resources! The blog not only provides podcast interviews with famous jazz musicians but posts transcriptions that include a detail analysis that will offer commentary on specific musical concepts found within the transcription.

One of my favorite jazz resources! The blog not only provides podcast interviews with famous jazz musicians but posts transcriptions that include a detail analysis that will offer commentary on specific musical concepts found within the transcription.

Free podcasts available online, also on iTunes, to learn how to play jazz piano. There are a lot of episodes and it starts simple and easy before it gets a bit more advanced. There's an easy progression of increasing difficulty. These podcasts are a great resource for students and teachers for increasing their jazz piano abilities.

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.

This website is the internet presence for WBGO, a jazz radio station out of Newark, NJ. Along with the ability to live-stream their broadcast, there is a wealth of articles on current performers and their albums, as well as jazz news from around the East Coast. I share new music with my students that I've found here often.

This site contains an audio example along with a viewable example of the lead sheet (in most cases). This is a fantastic resource for jazz students.

The purpose of this website is to provide a list of free jazz sheet music in the keys of Bb, Eb, and bass clef from the "Real Book". The content lists songs from A to Z which provide an audio recording link for each without any ads. Students can use this site to play along with the sheet music and accompaniment provided. It would make a great practice tool in addition to method book material for students of all ages. The author of the site also promotes a "my music apps" page for beginner and experienced musicians.

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