Jazz Harmony by Andy Jaffe

Pianist/composer, and arranger Andy Jaffe has been active in jazz education on both sides of the Atlantic for over twenty years. He is the author of over one hundred original compositions, ranging from 32-bar songs to works for piano duo and various other jazz ensembles, large and small. As an award-winning jazz composer, his compositions for sextet, such as those recorded on his CD “Manhattan Projects,” are his best known.

As an educator, he has taught at the Berklee College of Music (1977-81), as well as having lectured and done clinics throughout the United States and Europe, on topics such as the music of Duke Ellington, Jazz Composition techniques, and Jazz Theory. He currendy is Artist-in-Residence in Jazz and Director of Jazz Performance at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and Director of Jazz Studies at Amherst College m Amherst, Massachusetts.