I hope you will find the following piece interesting enough to put it on display in a suitable manner. Let me know if you need more details. Innovations in jazz are very difficult these days, the instrumentalists have explored nearly all possibilities, everything under the sun seems to have been tried already. But there is a bright ray of hope for the future of jazz. Vocal jazz remains highly underdeveloped, possibilities are far from exhausted.
Jazz has no other avenue left for future advancement.
Some adventureous vocalists, hungry to do more innovative things in jazz read my book, heard the CD and expressed a desire to come to India to learn more. So to further hasten the process and obtain results I started inviting them to Bombay for 2 months' intensive training under a Residency Program. Ann reports from SF that the Indian things have started to filter into her jazz singing with sensational results. At JIVI we do not teach them to sing the same old standards rehashed more or less the same old way. Next song - repeat the same formula.