[Dixielandjazz] Advice to private instructors?

[Williams, Bob]

Y'all:

I'm currently serving on the Education Committee of the Sacramento
Traditional Jazz Society, mostly in a desperate effort to meet chicks.  It's
pretty sad, lemme tell ya.

One of the things our group does is control scholarships to young jazz
students who apply and write compelling essays or otherwise curry our
favo(u)r.  We do not control from whom the student receives instruction.

However, I asked if we had a list of subjects we would like to see covered,
if the instructor were amenable to such advice, to prepare a student to be a
better "trad" jazz player.  It turns out there is no such list, and as I was
the idiot who axed the question, I was tasked with compiling one.

I therefore turn to my learned and occasionally bombastic friends on the
DJML:

What kinds of study areas would you suggest to a private music instructor to
help train a young student to become competent trad jazz musicians?

- Bob Willia