World Jazz Scene featuring music, instructional materials, art and photography.  
World Jazz Scene featuring music, instructional materials, art and photography.

      "Clayton is an important singer.... one who proposed dramatic changes in vocal styles and rules.... her musicianship is impeccable."  Francis Davis - Downbeat   
      "Thanks to this book, we can finally eliminate some of the fears we as singers face. The answers are here."  Sheila Jordan
      "This book really hits a target and fills a niche."
Herb Wong, Downbeat Magazine
      If only there were more books like this! ... a fantastic guide for those learning and/or teaching jazz singing."
Kathleen Willison, Jazz Changes
     
Teaching credits include New York's City College, the Bud Shank Workshop in Port Townsend, Wa., Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and currently co-teaches a summer workshop with Sheila Jordon at Banff Centre in Canada. She is a rotating guest professor at Musica Hochschule in Graz, Austria and for eighteen years was on the jazz faculty of Cornish College for the Arts in Seattle, Washington.

Jay Clayton  - "Sing Your Story" 

A practical guide for learning and teaching the art of jazz singing.  This book received a rave review in Downbeat Magazine, Nov, 2000. Book and CD $30.00 plus S&H.  For international orders, I will notify you of the shipping prices before proceeding.  

More about the book and CD. Table of Contents.

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Jay Clayton's Jazz Vocal Practice Series 
Vol. 1  $17.95 
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There are two Exercise Workouts on this CD. Both sequences of exercises have been designed for worming up, improving breath control, widening your range, and improving accuracy and intonation. Developing a good daily routine of working with the CD will help you develop control, strength, delicacy and flexibility, Your goal is to sing anything you fell and hear with ease.

Sample Tracks - 3 - 4 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11

Jay Clayton's Jazz Vocal Practice Series 
Vol. 2  $17.95 
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Vamps to improvise over including 3/4 time, bebop, dorian, latin, 5/4, phrygian, and major and minor blues.

Randy Halberstadt on piano.

Samples of tracks below from the first two pages in the CD inset.

Track 1, Track 2, Track 3, Track 4