<p>If anyone can help me, I am a jazz pianist who will be a senior in High School in Alabama. My big strengths are improvisation, reading chord charts, comping, and my ear. The only thing is I am not very good at sight reading. I have prepared Chopin's Revolutionary Etude, my transcription of C-Jam Blues by Oscar Peterson, and one movement of a Sonata by Beethoven (along with several jazz standards) for my college auditions this coming spring. I have a 3.6 GPA and a 30 ACT and would prefer to go to a school somewhere in the south, but I would appreciate options in the north too, to major in Jazz Studies for Piano. I am not a fan of classical music, nor would I want to major in it. I am looking for a great school for Jazz with a great Jazz faculty. State schools would be good too because I don't want my hard work in my academics to simply go to waste.</p>
<p>Well now that you know a little about me, I am looking into colleges with great Jazz programs and I would greatly appreciate any advice at all! So far, these are my top picks:</p>
<p>UNT
MTSU
UNO
New School
Hartt School of Music
Manhattan School of Music</p>