Statewide honors vocal jazz ensembles play a key role in vocal jazz education at the secondary level. The following survey details the current all-state vocal jazz ensembles across the United States, focusing on their host organizations and geographic distribution.

In June 1975, the ACDA established a standing committee on Jazz and Show Choirs as a branch of its Standards and Repertoire Committee. Since then, ten individuals have served as the national chair of the committee and its subsequent iterations. This paper seeks to reconstruct the dynamic historical narrative of vocal jazz in the Choral Journal through this lineage of leadership and through the articles on vocal jazz published in the journal during each chair’s tenure.

A proposed ethnographic case study of social capital within an all-state vocal jazz ensemble, aiming to highlight the unique social conditions of the experience for the student participants.