Category Archives: For Teachers

Diverse Achievements: jazz students do well in a wide range of areas – not just jazz.

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Michelle Shih – JWA’s classical guitar teacher

Michelle Shih – Classical guitar teacher for JWA We are excited to announce the arrival [...]

An Educator’s Review and Guide to JamKazam for Real-Time Small group Rehearsals and Music Lessons (Part 1).

By Saul Richardson. Recently I’ve been experimenting with the JamKazam platform for playing in real-time [...]

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The early music education of Lester Young

Lester Young is the next featured jazz great in our occasional series looking at the [...]

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Vibrato

Vibrato? Vibrato is an important and useful expressive technique in many guitar styles as well [...]

Jazz camp elective classes 2020

The elective activities for our upcoming 2020 Summer Jazz Camp will be: A break from [...]

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Welcome Charlie Sundborn

We are very, very happy to welcome our newest sax teacher Charlie Sundborn to JWA. [...]

Jazz education rhetoric and reality

by Saul Richardson, 2018. There is a popular misconception that playing jazz is exclusively about [...]

Some ways that jazz education excludes girls and why this is a problem

By Saul Richardson, 2018. (updated December 2019) Here are some thoughts on some factors that [...]

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Beginning teaching music lessons

The first lessons: what to do with a new student – advice for starting to [...]