I’ve been off my site for awhile – here’s what’s going on:
My fourth semester as a full-time faculty member at the University of Northern Colorado is well underway. Spring 2020, I’m teaching Jazz Methods and Materials (for music ed majors,) Jazz Program Planning and Administration, Topics in Jazz History (for undergraduate jazz majors,) Graduate Seminar in Jazz History, Jazz Lab Band V (“the Bop Shop”) and directing the Birdland combo. I’m constantly impressed and inspired by my colleagues, students and the community that surrounds the UNC School of Music and Jazz Studies program.
I’ve got gigs booked this winter and spring in Colorado with Andy Weyl and Holly DeHoog, Keith Waters, Bob Harris and the Bringers of Swing, and a gig at the Biamp/PDX Jazz Festival in Oregon with Anson Wright. While in Oregon, I’ll present a guest lecture at PSU and work with the jazz band at Pacific University.
Since the start of the 2019-2020 academic year, I’ve had the privilege of sitting on a panel on the undergraduate music major at the College Music Society national conference as well as presenting a research poster at the 11th Annual Jazz Education Network conference. I also recently published an article on the historiography of modern jazz in the inaugural issue of Jazz Education in Practice and Performance, through JEN and Indiana University Press.
My research is in full swing, working on two projects for upcoming publication as well as configuring the dissertation prospectus for my PhD in musicology. I’m compiling a 75-100 entry online bibliography for a major academic publisher as well as a chapter for an online textbook on African American musical traditions. My dissertation prospectus centers of theories of creolization and how creole identity has shaped the development of jazz in New Orleans.
I look forward to a fully engaged 2020. Return to this space for more on my work in jazz research, education and performance as time allows.
BC
