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When the world of jazz pedagogy needed a fresh, tongue‑in‑cheek perspective on improvisation, Kaitlyn Katsaros answered the call with ScatBook . Published on 21 November 2017, the volume blends scholarly research, practical exercises, and a healthy dose of humor to explore how vocalists “regurgitate”—in a figurative sense—their musical ideas, turning them into spontaneous, self‑generated language. ScatBook 21 11 17 Kaitlyn Katsaros Regurgitatin...
Students record their performances, upload them to the site, and receive automated feedback on pitch accuracy, rhythmic placement, and “syllabic diversity” (a metric Katsaros devised to quantify how many distinct phonemes appear in a given solo). — When the world of jazz pedagogy needed
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