"From convocation ceremonies at Berklee, to rigorous classroom training, to extracurricular musical games that students devise and play outside of the colleges–it's all grist for the author's ideas and theories. Wilf raises a lot of provocative issues to which there are no straightforward resolutions. Nothing is as it seems; everything is subject to change and further scrutiny. These built-in uncertainties are part and parcel of Wilf's rigorous manner of examining the thorny, overlapping conflicts and contradictions of jazz education that will play a role in shaping the music's future. . . . School For Cool is a significant work of jazz scholarship that examines, analyzes, and leaves a thicket of conflicts and contradictions, which resist any end point or resolution. It's a fitting tribute to a music that refuses to sit still and politely meet the expectations of those who wish to define it in limited, constricted, (and perhaps nostalgic) terms."– "All About Jazz"