TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Acknowledgments

• Foreword by Tim Lautzenheiser

• Chapter 1: A Context for Action

• Chapter 2: Self-Study: Grading Jazz Improvisation   

• Chapter 3: Input from Survey

• Chapter 4: Roundtable

• Chapter 5: Personal Reflection

• Chapter 6: Required and Dual Competencies

• Chapter 7: A Sampling of Teaching Methods

• Chapter 8: Disappointments and Delights

• Chapter 9: Recommendations Towards Related Resources

• Appendix: Improvisation and Jazz-Curricular Resources by the Author

• About the Author