Jazz at Brooklyn College

Regular course offerings at both the undergraduate and Masters level include seminars on jazz topics, jazz history surveys, jazz theory, jazz big band, and small jazz ensemble. In Spring 2005, courses offered include a seminar in jazz history and historiography, “Jazz Musicians as Intellectuals” taught by Prof. Salim Washington, and two jazz ensembles, led by Prof. Washington. Prof. Jeff Taylor (on leave, Spring 2005) regularly teaches jazz surveys and seminars in jazz history. In addition, the Institute for Studies in American Music regularly invites distinguished jazz performers and scholars to campus. Recent guest performers and lecturers have included Randy Weston, Paquito D’Rivera, Leroy Jenkins, Vijay Iyer, Miya Masaoka, Jason Kao Hwang, Matana Roberts, Aaron Stewart, Hakim Jami, and Elliot Humberto Kavee. Other guests have included Robin D. G. Kelley (Professor of Anthropology and Jazz Studies at Columbia University), Farah Jasmine Griffin (Director, Institute for Research in African American Studies and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University), and composer and violinist Jason Kao Hwang (founder of The Far East Side Band and composer of the chamber opera The Floating Box). Guest speakers in Spring 2005 will include George E. Lewis (Edwin H. Case Professor of Music, Columbia University) and Prof. Sherrie Tucker (Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor of Jazz Studies, Columbia University, and Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Kansas).

Faculty Bios

Jeffrey Taylor

Salim Washington

Jazz-related events at Brooklyn College

Upcoming events

Recent events

Calypso in New York and the Atlantic World
A Conference

Music in Polycultural America 
Fall 2004 Speakers Series

Articles and reviews published in the ISAM Newsletter

Robin Kelley, In a Mist: Thoughts on Ken Burns’s Jazz , Spring 2001

Robin Kelley, Brooklyn’s Jazz Renaissance, Spring 2004

David G. Pier, More News from Nowhere, review of The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue, ed. Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble (Wesleyan University Press, 2004) Fall 2004

Jeff Taylor, Life With Fatha, Fall 2000

Jeff Taylor, Celebrating Jelly Roll, Spring 2002, review of Oh, Mr. Jelly: A Jelly Roll Morton Scrapbook (Copenhagen: JazzMedia, 1999), Spring 2002

Mark Tucker, Behind the Beat, Spring 2003

Salim Washington, Meditations on Coltrane’s Legacy, Spring 2002

Salim Washington, Review of Eric Porter’s What is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists (University of California Press, 2002; $22.50) Eric Porter’s What Is This Thing Called Jazz?, Fall 2003

For more information on studying jazz at Brooklyn College, please contact Prof. Salim Washington at wsalimwashington@aol.com.

---

ISAM home Who we are Contact us ISAM Conferences and Lectures
Fall 2002 Newsletter

Monographs ISAM Web Documents Newsletters Links