Contemporary/Commercial Songwriting?

jazzvocals
Sun, 30 Jun 2013 03:50:50 +0000

Let me add one more, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in Greenwich Village, NYC
[About The New School College for Jazz and Contemporary Music](http://www.newschool.edu/jazz/about-jazz-college/)

New School is known for jazz musicians but its name and alumni both suggest it is more broad than that. Not sure what your style is, but you can think of jazz and blues as the foundation of rock and pop. Listen sometime to Ray Manzarek talk about how the Doors wrote Light My Fire.

Some of the recent alumni include Robert Glasper, Bilal, Jose James, Becca Stevens, Alan Hampton…all very hip.