Timeline of jazz education (a chronology of

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): The initial jazz education movement in North American was much an outgrowth of the music education movement that had been in full swing since the 1920s. Chuck Suber ''(né'' Charles Harry Suber; 1921–2015), former editor of ''

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was a key impetus for the jazz education movement in higher education. During the

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had been the nation's largest employer of musicians – including women musicians. After the

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, many of those musicians sought to pursue music as a career, and, with assistance of the GI Bill, found colleges offering curricular jazz. Suber also pointed out that the rise of stage bands in schools was directly proportionate to the decline of big name bands.

Non-academic (non-curricular)

Social services for children

Scholastic, clinics, camps

Non-curricular collegiate

Academic (curricular)

Primary and secondary education in North America

Higher education outside of North America

Higher education in North America

Major music conservatories of North America

* ''(not affiliated with a university)''

National associations

Selected jazz studies in higher education, North America

Notes and references

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Books, magazines, journals, dissertations, and websites

Newspapers

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)'' Jazz music education

Jazz education Each style and era of jazz adopted new techniques to help educate younger musicians. Early forms of jazz education were more informal. Since the first degree program was founded in 1947, the rise of institutionalized jazz education, resulted in ja ...