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Centering Women Composers in The Jazz Canon with Beginning Improvisation Students

  • Hyatt Regency New Orleans 601 Loyola Avenue New Orleans, LA, 70113 United States (map)

Join Jon Ailabouni at the 2024 Jazz Education Network Conference in New Orelans, Louisiana.

Diversifying the jazz canon requires the inclusion of women composers, particularly works that are accessible to beginning improvisors in terms of tempo, register, harmony and form. This clinic will center music by artists such as Mary Lou Williams, Vivien Garry, and Melba Liston and offer strategies for teaching their compositions.