Michael Kahr is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Jazz at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria as well as Dean of Music Faculty and Head of Master Studies at the Jam Music Lab University in Vienna, Austria.

Artistic Research in Jazz: An Introduction

Michael Kahr

Part I: Improvisation, Theory, and History

1. Improvising Artistic Research

Marcel Cobussen

2. Improvising Touch: Musical Improvisation Considered as a Tactile Practice

Vincent Meelberg

3. Mapping Jazz's Affect: Implications for Music Theory and Analysis

Chris Stover

4. Artistic Research in Jazz: Historical Contexts

Michael Kahr

Part II: Institutional and Pedagogical Considerations

5. Wordplay: Negotiating the Conservatory 'Culture Clash'

Petter Frost Fadnes

6. The Lessons of Jazz: What We Teach When We Teach Jazz in College

Tracy McMullen

7. It Don't Mean a Thing Without My Web Fan Base Thing: A Dance of Cultural Relevancy in Jazz Education Culture Today

William C. Banfield

Part III: Specific Projects

8. Silent Groove, Frames and Applied Improvisation in Miles Davis' "Shhh/Peaceful" and austraLYSIS' "Silent Waves": Practice-led Research Beckons to Research-led Practice

Roger T. Dean

9. Analysis and Observations of Pre-learnt and Idiosyncratic Elements in Improvisation: A Methodology for Artistic Research in Jazz

Robert L. Burke

10. Articulating Musical Practice and Research: Notes on a South African Recording Project

Marc Duby

11. Embodied Hope: An Empathically Creative Approach to Contemporary Jazz

Andrew Bain