Martan Mann

{{Short description|American jazz pianist and educator}}

Martan Mann is an American jazz pianist and educator{{cite book |title=Keyboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rLcJAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=27 February 2012 |year=1995 |publisher=GPI Publications}} living in Boulder Creek, California. He performs with the Martan Mann Trio, the Martan Mann & Mannkind (contemporary jazz band) and has performed with George Young and Dmitri Matheny. A graduate of San Jose State University, San Francisco State University, Hawaii Pacific College, and the University of Hawaii, he is a musical director at Capitola Theater in Capitola, California and is on the board of directors for the Jazz Society of Santa Cruz, California.{{cite web |url=http://www.musicmann.com/bio.php |title=Bio|publisher=Musicmann.com|accessdate=27 February 2012}}{{cite book|title=The American music teacher |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xVYJAQAAMAAJ |accessdate=27 February 2012|year=1992|publisher=Music Teachers' National Association.|page=77}} Jazz educational books include Jazz Improvisation for the Classical Pianist (1989),{{cite book|last=Mann|first=Martan|title=Jazz Improvisation for the Classical Pianist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mC0AAAAACAAJ |accessdate=27 February 2012 |date=1 June 1989|publisher=Amsco Publications|isbn=978-0-8256-1229-9}} New Age Improvisation for the Classical Pianist (1994),{{cite book |last=Mann|first=Martan|title=New Age Improvisation for the Classical Pianist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2sHiGQAACAAJ|accessdate=27 February 2012 |date=1 November 1994 |publisher=Amsco|isbn=978-0-8256-1286-2}} and Improvising blues piano (1997).{{cite book |last=Mann |first=Martan |title=Improvising blues piano |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hfPfQgAACAAJ|accessdate=27 February 2012|date=31 December 1997|publisher=Amsco Publications |isbn=978-0-8256-1624-2 }}{{cite book|title=Clavier|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_WwJAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=27 February 2012 |year=1998 |publisher=Instrumentalist Co. |page=43 }} He is also the author of a jazz educational DVD, Jazz Skills for Piano.