Educational Articles

Jazz History and Related Topics

• Free Life Communication-the story of this musician’s cooperative formed by Liebman in the early 1970s
• Coltrane Live at Antibes 1965 - liner notes for Jazz Icons/Mosaic release
• Ten Important Coltrane Tracks
• Miles and Me
• Liebman's Liner Notes on the Reissues of Miles Davis' "Dark Magus" and "Get Up With It"
• Elvin Jones Boxed Set: "The Blue Note Years"
• Compositional Style of Joe Henderson
• Miles Davis' Approach to the Jazz Standards
• On "Hub Tones" (Freddie Hubbard) Upon His Passing
• Motion - comment on classic Lee Konitz recording with Elvin Jones from '60s
• Remembering The Master - Saxophone Guru Joe Allard
• On John Coltrane (lecture)
• John Coltrane's Meditations Suite - A Study in Symmetry
• On Miles Davis' Passing On (written after the funeral 1991)

Specific Pedagogical Topics

• Thesis on Liebman Chromatic Style-Matt Vashlishan Master Thesis
• Reflections on the Artistic Process
• A Chromatic Approach to Jazz Melody and Harmony-brief overview
• Review of diatonic, modal, pedal, intervallic chromatic lines
• Lessons from the Greats-Liebman Chapter On Miscellaneous Topics
• Practicing Philosophy
• Jazz Rhythm
• A Student Asks: General Questions from a Student
• Finding Oneself - The Road to Self Discovery
• Assorted ii-V Lines in major (12 keys)
• The Complete Transcription Process
• Assorted ii-V Lines in minor (12 keys)

Jazz Education

• Beyond the Music - what a jazz education offers beyond the music itself
• Philosophy of Education
• Why Jazz Education? - short version
• What Makes a Well-Rounded Jazz Education?
• The "Ideal" Jazz Education-short summary
• Common Traits of Jazz Musicians-transcribed from lecture given to jazz appreciation course

Liebman Related Topics

• The Importance Of Keeping The Same Band Members
• Free Life Communication-about the cooperative Lieb formed in 1970
• The Compositional Process
• My Body Of Music
• Straight Talk: Understanding The Common Qualities That Artists Possess
• What Jazz Means to Me
• "Blindfold Test"-comments about recordings before and after listening
• The "Desert Island Question"-Top Ten Recordings and Most Influential Tracks on My Development

Saxophone

• Playing Solo: The Challenges of the Single Line Performer
• Principals of Breathing
• Overtone Warmup Excercises
• My Journey With The Soprano Saxophone
• Developing a Personal Saxophone Sound (introduction to book)
• The Search for Nirvana: The Perfect Mouthpiece
• Foreword from "Jazz Saxophone Players" - A Bibliographical Handbook

Miscellaneous

• Afterword by Liebman from "Freud's Lost Chord-Discovering Jazz in the Resonant Psyche" by Daniel Sapen (Karnac Press)
• Review of Wayne Shorter's "Without A Net" (2013) for Jazz Magazine (France)
• Interview concerning Indian music influence with June Thomas
• "If I Had Ten Million in the Bank": Concerning Art vs.Commerce
• The Relevance of Big Bands
• The Ballad Challenge
• The Critic Dilemma: Criticism vs. Review
• Do Jazz Critics Need to Know How to Play Jazz?
• The Meaning of the Blues
• Is More Better?: Programming Pop Music At Jazz Festivals
• A Short Explanation of the Fusion Movement
• Playing with Your Brother/Sister: Considerations of playing with someone on your instrument
• Recording Live and In The Studio-Two Sides Of The Same Coin
• Europe and its Role in Jazz
• The Liebman World Survey