Sing Vocal Jazz, Teach Vocal Jazz: A Holistic Guide to Vocal Jazz Performance Pedagogy provides a step-by-step, research-based, field-tested set of pedagogical tools specific to vocal jazz.
Covering topics from choosing the best jazz repertoire for one’s distinct voice to expressing the aesthetics of swing, improvisation, and blues, Sing Vocal Jazz, Teach Vocal Jazz provides a blueprint to understanding and applying the identifying performance aspects of vocal jazz. The book is enriched and informed by the voices of industry giants including award-winning performers, NEA Jazz Masters, GRAMMY awardees, and heralded vocal jazz composers and arrangers. An additional feature of Sing Vocal Jazz, Teach Vocal Jazz is access to online audio material via the password-protected QR code.
Sing Vocal Jazz, Teach Vocal Jazz will be an invaluable, practical guide for vocal professionals, choral teachers, jazz choir teachers, jazz ensemble teachers, vocal studio owners, and online vocal teachers.
By:
Lenora Helm Hammonds
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9781032766270
ISBN 10: 1032766271
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 23 December 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1.Who Can Sing Jazz? 2.How to Use Sing Vocal Jazz, Teach Vocal Jazz. 3.Train the Voice, then Teach the Style. 4.Why Vocal Performance Pedagogy vs. Vocal Pedagogy in Jazz? 5.The Role of Vocal Jazz Ear Training. 6.The Role of Jazz Theory in Vocal Jazz Performance. 7.Vocal Jazz Improvisation: Learning How to Listen and Learning How to Hear. 8.The Reluctant Bandleader: Working with Instrumentalists. 9.The Magic Scale and Other Unusual Musical Suspects. 10.Chart Writing and Vocal Jazz Arranging. 11.Jazz Composition and Songwriting for Jazz Vocalists. 12.Environments for Learning. 13.What is Needed to have a Solo Vocal Jazz Career. 14.Appendix.
Lenora Helm Hammonds is a vocal jazz musician, composer, arranger, and educator who currently serves as Dean of the Professional Education Division at Berklee College of Music. Distinctions include TEDx speaker, former U.S. Jazz Ambassador, two-time Fulbright Senior Music Specialist, GRAMMY Music Educator of the Year quarterfinalist, Jazz Educator of Distinction award recipient from Jazz Music Awards foundation and Berklee Gospel Music Hall of Fame inductee. Her academic leadership is conjoined to four decades as a jazz recording and performing artist p/k/a Lenora Zenzalai Helm who can be heard on over a dozen recordings with renowned jazz artists, in addition to eight solo recordings. As a published author her work is at the intersection of jazz, intercultural maturity, and digital humanities. Learn more at www.LenoraHelm.com.
