This article presents an interview with Willie L. Hill Jr., founder and director of the Society for Jazz Education. Currently a professor of music education at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the director of the UMass Fine Arts Center, Hill has served as director of education for the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. He is a past president of MENC: The National Association for Music Education as well as of the International Association for Jazz Education, which ceased operation in 2008. He taught instrumental music education for sixteen years and has served as instrumental music supervisor in the Denver Public Schools. In this interview, Hill reflects on jazz education in the United States today.