Chuck Suber (né Charles Harry Suber; 1921–2015), former editor of Down Beat,[1] averred that the GI Bill following World War II was a key impetus for the jazz education movement in higher education.
[I][2] After the War, many of those musicians sought to pursue music as a career, and, with assistance of the GI Bill, found colleges offering curricular jazz.
[i][3][4] Jamey Aebersold publishes his first play-a-long recording and book set, selling it through an ad in Down Beat magazine.
The book aims to support jazz learning and practicing at home in a music-minus-one format.
The Auburn Knights Orchestra, a student jazz orchestra was founded in September 1930 on the campus of Alabama Polytechnic Institute (later Auburn University).