Category Archives: Research

Enough with the fake jazz education

Child prodigies? Focus is the key.

Why students quit jazz: part 2

Nurture, not nature: a Christmas message on learning jazz

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

The early music education of Lester Young

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

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 [...]