VCU vocal Prof. Rebecca Tyree accompanies the ensemble "What's the Ti?" at the inaugural VCU "Jazz 4 Justice(TM)" concert January 2015. (photo credit Jean-Philippe Cyprés)

Chapter 3: Input from Survey

This critical chapter provides the responses of the nearly 40 research participants, beginning with a summary of the data from the respondents to my initial survey, proceeding to the actual responses of those participants granting such permission. What you will read in this book is certainly not an indication of right, wrong, or majority rule. If anything, the arriving data suggests that there is a wide variety of approaches to conceptualizing jazz improvisation pedagogy and its grading process.