Publications

Teoria Jazzu – Od Podstaw do Poziomu Zaawansowanego (PWM, 2020 in Polish)

Jazz Theory Workbook (Routledge, 2019)

Jazz Theory – From Basic to Advanced Study (Routledge, 2018; 2^nd edition)

Jazz Voicings For Piano: The complete linear approach Part I: The “Drop Two” Harmonic Technique (Advance Music, 2018)

Jazz Voicings For Piano: The complete linear approach
Part II. Voice Leading, Scales and Chord Progressions (Advance Music, 2018)

Jazz Theory – From Basic To Advanced Study. Routledge – 2014 – 490 pages – Get a 20% Discount on Jazz Theory

Review of African Rhythms. By Randy Weston. The Scarecrow Press, 2009, published in Associations for Recorded Sound Collections, (Spring 2011)

Review of Analyzing Jazz: A Schenkerian Approach. By Steve Larson. Pendragon Press, 2009, published in Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association (December, 2010)

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/notes/summary/v067/67.2.terefenko.html

“A ‘Dearly Beloved’ Jazz Progression-Part Two,” Jazz Inside Magazine, Vol.9, No.1 (Spring, 2010)

“’Just In Time’ For Taking a Solo,” Jazz Inside NY, Vol.1 No. 10 (June, 2010)

“’Just One of Those Things’ You Need to Know About Four-Part Chords,” Jazz Inside NY, Vol.1 No. 8 (March, 2010)

“A ‘Dearly Beloved’ Jazz Progression-Part One,” Jazz Inside Magazine, Vol.8, No.4 (Winter, 2010)

Review of The Story of Boogie-Woogie, A left Hand like God. By Peter J. Silvester. The Scarecrow Press, 2009, published in Associations for Recorded Sound Collections, (Spring 2010)

“Jazz Transformations of the ii7-V7-I Progression,” Current Research in Jazz 1, (2009)
http://www.crj-online.org/v1/CRJ-JazzTransformations.php

Keith Jarrett’s Transformation of Standard Tunes: Theory, Analysis and Pedagogy. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, Germany, (2009)

Review of: Horizons Touched, The Music of ECM. Edited by Steve Lake and Paul Griffiths. Granta Books, London, 2007, published in Associations for Recorded Sound Collections, (2009)

Review of: Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop. By Jeremy Yudkin. Indiana University Press, 2008, published in Associations for Recorded Sound Collections, (2009)

Review of: Monk’s Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making. By Gabriel Solis. The Regents of the University of California, 2008, published in Associations for Recorded Sound Collections, (2008)

“Latin Music and Its Practical Application,” published in Wychowanie Muzyczne w Szkole (Music Education in School), Lublin, Poland, (May, 2007)

“Blues – mozliwosci rozwijania zdolnosci muzycznych mlodziezy” (The Blues – Exploring Its Potential in Music Education), published in Wychowanie Muzyczne w Szkole (Music Education in School), Lublin, Poland, (May, 2006)

“Wstepne Zasady Harmonizacji i Improwizacji Jazzowej” (Basic Rules of Jazz Harmony and Improvisation, transcript of the lecture given at the Academy), published in Dialog Akademicki, Pomeranian Academy Press, Slupsk, Poland, (September 2005)

“The Art of the Solo Piano Introduction – Formal Improvisation,” published in International Association of Jazz Educators 2005 report book, (2005)

Keith Jarrett’s Transformation of Standard Tunes – Ph.D Dissertation, Eastman School of Music, (2004)

Transcription Project: Ivan Lins’s Music, commissioned and recorded by Maria Schneider Orchestra, (2003)

Recordings

Evidence – Solo Piano (2010)

Conferences and Residencies

Invitational Consultation with Members of the Society for Music Theory’s Jazz Theory Special Interest Group – The NASM Annual Meeting – Boston, MA, (November 22, 2010)

Society for Music Theory Conference – Indianapolis, IN (November 5, 2010) – paper: “Counterpoint Pedagogy in the 21^st Century”

Master-classes on Jazz Theory and Baroque Improvisation – Oswego, SUNY, NY (October 21, 2010)

Tritone Camp – Nazareth College, Rochester, (July, 2010)

J.S. Bach Conference – Kharkov, Ukraine (December 2-8, 2008) – papers: “Partimento Fugues – The Langloz Manuscripts,” “The Pedagogy of The History of Music Theory”

Society of Music Theory Conference – Nashville, TN (November 5-9, 2008) – paper: “Phrase Models and Prototypes of Form in Standard Tunes”

Visiting Professor of Jazz and Philosophy, Pomeranian University – Slupsk, Poland (May/June, 2008)

Tritone Camp – Nazareth College, Rochester, (July, 2008)

Residency – University of Lublin Poland (May 21-23, 2007);History of Improvisation, Evolution of Jazz Harmony; Big-band directing

Residency –University of Rzeszów, Poland (May 28-30, 2007); History of Improvisation;History of Jazz Styles

Twelfth Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music – Warsaw University, Poland (July 25 –29, 2006) – paper: “Keyboard Pedagogy in the Baroque Period-Improvising Partimento Fugues”

Czwarty Baltycki Festiwal Nauki (Fourth International Science Symposium) –Pomeranian Pedagogy Academy, Slupsk, Poland (May 25-27, 2006) – three papers: “Multiculturalism in Jazz,” “Pedagogy of Jazz Improvisation,” “Latin Music and Its Origins”

Music Theory Society of New York State – Chair of Jazz Session (April, 2006)

Society of Music Theory Conference –Cambridge, MA (November 9-13, 2005) – paper: “Formal Improvisation in Keith Jarrett’s  “Come Rain or Come Shine””

The International Association of Jazz Educators Conference – Long Beach, CA (January 7, 2005) – clinic/paper: “The Art of the Solo Piano Introduction – A Formal Approach”

Dissertation Advising

Alexander H. Graham, DMA, Jazz Studies – Miles’ Styles: The Evolution of Ensemble Interactions and the Collective Aesthetic in the 1950s and 1960s.

Austin Gross, Ph.D, Music Theory – Bill Evans-Paradigms for Improvisation

Michel Callahan, Ph.D, Music Theory – Techniques of Keyboard Improvisation in the German Baroque and Their Implications for Today’s Pedagogy

Jason Titus, Ph.D, Music Theory – Miles Davis’ “So What” as Modal Jazz Case Study

Stefan Love, Ph.D, Music Theory – Towards a Theory of Jazz Phrase Rhythm

Kimberley Hannon, Ph.D, Musicology – Living Traditions: Multivalency in Contemporary Jazz Performance

Websites

Companion Website for Jazz Theory (2^nd Edition, 2019):
https://www.routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138235106/default.php

Companion Website for Jazz Theory (1^st Edition, 2015): http://www.routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780415537612/default.php

Coursera Course:
The Blues: Understanding and Performing an American Art Form.
https://www.coursera.org/instructor/dariusz-terefenko

Musician’s Toolkit (2017)
https://www.musicianstoolkit.com/course/ii-v-i-progression-dr-dariusz-terefenko