IASPM US ’24 Conference Paper – or – AJ Tries to Figure Out What “Genre” Is.
I’m stoked to be presenting a paper tomorrow morning at Drexel University as part of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music’s US conference. It’s got the kind of awful title: “Phantasmatic Identity Over Opinion?”: Making Sense of New Grammy Category “Alternative Jazz.” What can I say, the title got a bit out…
Vernacular Bootleg from ’22
Just spotted this video (thanks Rob!) from sitting in with Vernacular back in September 2022. This was the record release show for RA Washington and Jah Nada’s In Search of Our Father’s Gardens at Crobar. I don’t get to do enough of this kind of explorative music making these days – always grateful for these…
CWRU Pop Ensemble Concert (and a few charts)
I’ve been directing the Pop Ensemble at CWRU for the first time this last semester and have been super impressed by our class. We’ve got 17 undergrad of all levels in the ensemble – many non-majors – and they’re doing a great job learning tunes they like from a broad set of genres. Students choose/advocate…
Videos from “Toward a Different Kind of Horizon” Concert up on YouTube!
The band as it appeared in Gartner Auditorium. Photo by Darnell McAdams. It took a few months, but I’m excited to finally be able to share video from the concert I’d organized in March, 2023. TLDR: Find here a playlist of eleven incredible collective improvisations from Moor Mother, Lonnie Holley, Lee Bains, and Mourning [A]…
No Sleep Club (The Wiz)
The weeks are flying by and it’s somehow mid-October?! In addition to my full plate at CWRU – which has been pretty pretty great this semester – I’m halfway through playing the three-week, 24-show Cleveland run of the pre-Broadway tour of The Wiz. I’m playing the Reed I book (alto, clarinet, flute, piccolo) in this…
New Course: Engaging (Post)Postmodern Music(ology)
I’m five weeks into teaching a new upper-level musicology course at CWRU and am loving the way it’s proceeding. Let me tell you about it: These last few years at CWRU I learned that many of our brilliant graduate students hadn’t been exposed to the methodological predecessors to contemporary “New Musicology,” nor did they have…
It’s August Already!?
(Where have I been?) I’m quickly realizing I only have a few weeks before being swallowed again by the academic semester. It’s been a blur of a summer and there’s still so much to do. As an exercise in memory and self-narration—and an explanation for not getting to all the things?—I’ll try to remember some…
“Toward a Different Kind of Horizon”
I’m excited about this. Get your FREE TICKETS HERE: Painting and design by Aaron D. Williams I’ve been planning a Cleveland concert event that’s coming up in less than two weeks. Here’s how it started. In April of 2022 I flew to NYC to attend the Time Zone Protocols Unconference at The New School in…
SAM ’23 Conference Paper
I learned a lot presenting ongoing research related to my “What is this Revenant Called “Jazz”?” project at the Society for American Music 49th Annual Conference this week. SAM is such a great conference – much love and thanks go those in attendance for their generative comments and questions. Check out these links to the…
Still Processing NYC Winter Jazzfest
In early January I had the flash of realization that this year’s NYC Winter Jazzfest occurred the weekend immediately before classes began at CWRU. This meant that if I was quick about it, I could actually get to NYC for a few days to check out this amazing event for the first time in years,…
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