"Diving Into jazz Band with Confidence and Joy" was written to help middle school, high school and community college band directors and music teachers Ð especially those with NO prior jazz band experience Ñ build a school jazz band program from the ground up. It's also full of ideas that are useful for band directors with existing jazz experience, as players and/or jazz band directors. Designed as a "music stand resource", the coil binding format allows it to sit front and center on your director's stand as a step-by-step reminder of the practical exercises and techniques found in each chapter. College Music Educators have reviewed this book and recommend it as a teaching resource/textbook in practical music education classes. | Author Milas Yoes served for 20 years as the Director of Instrumental Music, Jazz Studies and Humanities at Phoenix College where he founded the critically acclaimed Superstition Jazz Orchestra. Prior to that, he served as middle school band director in Tempe and Mesa, Arizona. Nominated three times for the Grammy Music Educator of the Year Award, Yoes was a quarterfinalist in 2016. He has been a featured clinician/adjudicator/performer at various jazz festivals across the United States., music pedagogy, teaching jazz band, starting a jazz band, high school music education, jazz ensemble, middle school music education, Milas Yoes| 9781257785452 | 188PAGES