Jazz Studies Online

02/23/2022

Wondering what the Such Sweet Thunder project is? Who it’s for? How you can participate? Watch this short video to find out! Robert G. O’Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature and director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia, discusses how SST came to be and what’s on tap for the semester. (Spoiler: this is a “sweet invitation” not just for the Columbia, community, but for Harlem, New York, and beyond!)

This 2021-2022 academic year, Columbia University presents Such Sweet Thunder: Ellington Plays Shakespeare—Love and Power in Adaptation, a year-long series o...

02/08/2022

Such Sweet Thunder: Love and Power in Adaptation, our semester-long celebration of performances, lectures, discussions, exhibitions, and public events celebrating Duke Ellington’s 1957 Shakespearean jazz suite “Such Sweet Thunder,” kicks off this week! Come join us!

02/05/2016

Check out our lineup of events for Spring 2016! For more information about each, visit our website at www.jazz.columbia.edu.

11/06/2015

We're pleased that Catherine Russell gave ample tribute to Billie Holiday this Wednesday, and in doing so was no one else but Catherine Russell. Pictured are Ms. Russell with Center for Jazz Studies Director Bob O'Meally.

10/20/2015

Our next Center for Jazz Studies event will say new things about (yes) Charlie Parker http://jazz.columbia.edu/event/thursday-birds-view-blues-bebop-beyond

Center for Jazz Studies, Lecture and Performance, Tribute to Charlie Parker Thursday, October 22

10/15/2015

Center for Jazz Studies Jazz and the Transformation of Operatic MaterialDate: Thursday, October 15, 2015

10/14/2015

We saw Stanley Cowell at SMOKE Jazz Club recently and the term "renaissance" and all it evokes pretty much sums it up.

I am standing at the long, black grand piano in the living room of Stanley Cowell’s Southern Maryland home, watching as he comes alive. The 74-year-old pianist and composer is showing off his digital sound-design system, called Kyma, which he used during his just-ended weeklong stint in New York in…

10/09/2015

A timely and important film on jazz is ready for general release.

Movies See Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in first Miles Ahead clip

10/05/2015

About the Center for Jazz Studies' own Chris Washburne, and the program he directs.

Chris Washburne is Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University and the founder and director of Columbia’s Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program. In 2003, he led a successful campaign to include jazz in the Core Curriculum (Columbia is now the only university that requires all of its under…

09/22/2015

About the resurgence of an important figure on the intriguing South African jazz scene.

http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD52/PoD52JumpinIn.html

Long ago Louis Moholo-Moholo ceased to be simply a drummer, a jazz musician from South Africa. He was born in 1940, and it seems that he’s been a historical figure – a part of living history – for most of his adult life. Meeting him is a little like meeting Baryshnikov or Kundera or (from an earlier…

09/14/2015

Our Fall series Re/Mapping Jazz now posted. Next up: Pedrito Martinez and Ned Sublette on Cuban jazz.
http://jazz.columbia.edu/

08/31/2015

First event in our Fall 2015 series in NYC at Columbia University in the City of New York, "Re/mapping Jazz." We hope to see you there.

Wednesday, September 23rd, 7 pm: "How Cuba Changed Everything."

Performance by Pedrito Martinez Group. Lecture & Discussion by Ned Sublette & John F. Szwed.
Earl Hall Auditorium, Columbia University Main Campus.