So You Want to Sing Jazz : A Guide for Professionals.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONLINE SUPPLEMENT NOTE -- THE HISTORY OF JAZZ AND ELEMENTS OF JAZZ SINGING -- SINGING JAZZ AND VOICE SCIENCE -- VOCAL HEALTH AND THE VOCAL JAZZ ARTIST -- JAZZ VOCAL CHARACTERISTICS -- DEVELOPING JAZZ EARS -- THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK -- SCAT AND INTERPRETATION -- JAZZ VOCAL PERFORMANCE -- JAZZ SINGING AS A CAREER -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

In So You Want to Sing Jazz, singer and professor of voice Jan Shapiro gives a guided tour through the art and science of the jazz vocal style. Throughout, Shapiro hones in on what makes jazz singing distinctive, suggesting along the way how other types of singers can make use of jazz. She looks at such key matters in jazz singing as the role of improvisation, the place of specific singers who influenced and even defined vocal jazz as we know it today, and the unique way in which jazz incorporates vibrato, conversational delivery, rhythmic phrasing, and melodic embellishment and improvisation.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.