I’m excited to announce that I’ve been confirmed as a presenter for both the 2021 Jazz Education Network Conference in January and the 2021 International Society of Bassists Convention in Lincoln, NE in June.
The research I’ll be presenting at JEN consists of a poster graphically representing my analysis of Charlie Haden’s use of sequence, pattern and musical rhyme in his solos after 1975. The full title of this research is: Bridging Traditions: A Musico-cultural Analysis of Sequence, Pattern and Musical Rhyme in the Improvised Solos of Charlie Haden After 1975. The poster will be available throughout the virtual conference, but the featured poster time will be midday on January 6, 2020.
My research for ISB centers around the career of West Coast jazz bassist, entrepreneur and composer Harry Babasin in celebration of the centenary of his birth. While Babasin warrants a chapter in John Goldsby’s The Jazz Bass Book, his coverage in general jazz histories is sparse, at best, and I’ve been working with his son to work toward rectifying this oversight. The title of this presentation, scheduled to be presented in person in Lincoln at 4:00p on June 10 is Jazz Bass in Hollywood: Celebrating the Legacy of Bassist and West Coast Jazz Luminary Harry Babasin (1921-1988).
I’m also expecting to see the publication of a major online bibliography for a respected publishing house, a chapter in an online textbook on African American music and a review of the wonderful resource, Rehearsing the Jazz Band by Mary Jo Papich and Ryan Adamsons.
