Swing Central

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SwingCentralJazz.org is a web-based learning center connecting young jazz musicians with world-class peer-to-peer and mentor instruction. Browse video lessons by our clinicians relating to practice habits, the rehearsal process, and performance tactics, and hear what recordings, collaborations and influences have given SCJ clinicians inspiration. Create your own profile to customize your own video lesson playlist, ask questions of our expert staff, join your bandmates online, and see what questions other young musicians across the country are asking.

FEATURED ARTIST

BILLY TAYLOR: Video Lessons & Biography

Billy Taylor encompasses that rare combination of creativity, intelligence, vision, commitment and leadership, qualities that make him one of our most cherished national treasures.

The distinguished ambassador of the jazz community to the world-at-large, Dr. Billy Taylor's recording career spans nearly six decades.

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