Sing Vocal Jazz, Teach Vocal Jazz: A Holistic Guide to Vocal Jazz Performance Pedagogy

By Lenora Helm Hammonds

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032775165
• ISBN13: 9781032775166
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"