THE ULTIMATE JAZZ MEDTHOD is very unique in structure and provides an abundance of information. The structure grew from my extremely successful experience with children who had never played a musical instrument before my class and had never heard of jazz. This jazz method curriculum is a vehicle for developing improvisational skills, theory, history and language that meets the objective to play jazz. It is a self-contained book with 12 sequential lessons for middle and high school students. Each lesson covers an era of jazz beginning with the early period, the blues. The student's edition is self-guided with objectives, goals, theory, melodic patterns, quizzes and tunes with traditional chord progressions that represent each period of jazz. It is well constructed and easy to follow for anyone who is not experienced or an expert in the field of jazz music. A teacher could review and prepare a lesson within ten minutes prior to class. In addition, the history, quiz and recording section of this curriculum is recommended for cross curriculum teaching in history and English classes.