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Jeff Taylor, Director, (Ph.D., Michigan)
has been a member of the Conservatory faculty since 1993. He specializes in
jazz and other areas of music in the United States, though he also
teaches general courses in Western music history and musicology and has
regularly led sections of the Conservatory's introductory Core course (he is
also a co-author of that course's textbook). He is also on the faculty of the
CUNY Graduate Center,
where he teaches doctoral seminars in jazz history and historiography. His
scholarly work has focused primarily on pre-1940s jazz, though his interests
include many aspects of current trends in jazz and popular music scholarship
and performance, particularly those related to race, gender, class, sexuality
and spirituality. He is on the editorial boards of Black Music Research
Journal and The Journal of the Society for American Music. His writing has
appeared in Musical Quarterly, Black Music Research Journal, American Music,
the ISAM Newsletter, and other publications. As a performer Prof. Taylor has
focused primarily on the work of early jazz pianists such as Jelly Roll
Morton, Fats Waller, and James P. Johnson, and in 1998 appeared with fellow
pianist Artis Wodehouse at several events related to ISAM's The Gershwins at
100 festival. He is currently at work on a biography of jazz pianist Earl
"Fatha" Hines, having published a critical edition of
transcriptions of Hines's solos last year.
Email Professor Taylor: jtaylor@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Ray Allen
is Associate Professor of Music and the Director of the American Studies
program at Brooklyn
College. Trained in
folklore and ethnomusicology, his research has centered on New York City's diverse ethnic music
cultures. He is author of Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred
Quartets in New York City (University
of Pennsylvania Press) and co-editor
of Island Sounds in the Global City: Caribbean Popular Music in New York
City (ISAM/University of Illinois
Press). His current research focuses on West Indian Carnival music in Brooklyn.
Professor Allen has been affiliated with
ISAM since 1993, and served as Acting Director from 1997 to 1999. He has
co-produced a number of the Institute's festivals, including the centenary
celebrations in honor of Henry Cowell (1997) and George Gershwin (1998). As
an ISAM Associate he currently co-edits the Newsletter with Ellie
Hisama, and is planning a conference on New
York City music cultures for the Spring of 2001.
Professor Allen teaches survey courses in
the music of the United States
and New York City.
In addition he directs Brooklyn
College's American
Studies program, an interdisciplinary program that specializes in American
music and cultural studies.
Professor Allen is on leave during Fall
2005.
Email Professor Allen: rayallen@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Salim Washington, Assistant Professor of Music and ISAM
Senior Associate, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University
with a dissertation on John Coltrane. A Harlem-based tenor saxophonist, he
also plays the flute and the oboe, and is an avid composer/arranger. While on a commission for works
celebrating the life and music Dexter Gordon he established a new group, the
Harlem Arts Ensemble, which continues the legacy of his Boston-based band,
the Roxbury Blues Aesthetic. In addition to his own groups, Salim plays
regularly with a number of ensembles including the Donald Smith Quintet,
Antonio Dangerfield’s Ensemble Uniqua, Frank Lacy’s Vibe Tribe,
and the Frank Lacy Octet, James Jabbo Ware’s Me, We, and Them
Orchestra, the Brooklyn Repertory Ensemble, Ahmed Abdullah’s Diaspora,
and the Carl Grubbs group. He has travelled extensively, playing
music festivals throughout the US
and Canada, Latin America,
and Europe. He has
also led music workshops for the Northern Ireland Arts Council in Belfast, the Bill Evans conservatory in Paris,
Harvard University,
the Vermont Jazz Center,
Plymouth State College, the Guelph Music Festival, and elsewhere. He is a
member of the Jazz Study Group at Columbia
University and has
participated on various committees and panels in service of jazz, including
those convened by the Ford Foundation, the Boston Pheonix, the New
England Foundation for the Arts. He is co-author with Farah Jasmine Griffin
of Clawing at the Limits of Cool: the collaboration between Miles Davis
and John Coltrane, 1955-1961, forthcoming from St.
Martin’s Press.
His recordings include:
-Carl
Grubbs Quartet, featuring Ronnie Burrage and Steve Neil, forthcoming (prod.
Bob Rusch)
-Traveling
the Spaceways. Ahmed
Abdullah’s Dispersions of the Spirit of Ra, Planet Arts, 100324,
2005.
-Live
at the Archipel, Katy
Roberts Septet, 2004.
-The
Vibe, Katy Roberts Septet, 2002.
-The
Bill Barron Project,
Bill Lowe/Carl Atkins Big Band, Green Line Records, 1999
-Live at Detroit Montreaux Jazz
Festival, Henry Cook
Band, featuring Bobby Ward, Accurate
Records, AC-5036, 1999.
-The
RAW Field Recordings, Paradigm
Shift, Tautology 010, 1999.
-Love
in Exile, Salim Washington and RBA,
featuring Joe Bonner, on Accurate Records 1997.
-Blue
Again, Billy Skinner
DJQ, on Kitty Kat Records, 1992.
-Kosen
Rufu, Billy Skinner DJQ, Accurate Records, 1990. (Best Jazz CD,
Pepsi Music Awards,
one of the Ten Best CD's of the decade, Los Angeles
Times).
Email Professor Washington at wsalimwashington@aol.com.
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