Columbia Jazz News and Events

Featuring Pradeep Ratnayake (Sitar) with Ben Waltzer (Piano), Jacob Friedman (Piano), Daniel Schley (cello), Doug Berns (Bass Guitar), Alexander Cohen (Drums), Alexander Lewis (Violin). Free and open to the public.

Columbia University Jazz Vocal Ensembles End of Semester Concert
Directed by Christine Correa Sunday
December 7, 2008 4:00 PM
Italian Academy Teatro
1161 Amsterdam Avenue between 116th & 118th
Free and open to the public

Concerts are sponsored by the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, directed by Prof. Chris Washburne, the Music Department, and the Center for Ethnomusicology.

The Columbia University Jazz Program’s Brazilian Ensemble In Concert
Saturday, December 6, 2008, 2:00 PM
301 Philosophy Hall
Directed by Ole Mathisen and Adriano Santos Free and open to the public

Concerts are sponsored by the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, directed by Prof. Chris Washburne, the Music Department, and the Center for Ethnomusicology.

The Center for Jazz Studies invites you to see
The Columbia University Jazz Ensembles in Concert
112 Dodge Hall (enter from College Walk) 8:00 PM Free and open to the public
Tuesday, December 9
Combos directed by Victor Lin

Concerts are sponsored by the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, directed by Prof. Chris Washburne, the Music Department, and the Center for Ethnomusicology.

The Center for Jazz Studies invites you to see
The Columbia University Jazz Ensembles in Concert
112 Dodge Hall (enter from College Walk) 8:00 PM Free and open to the public
Friday, December 5
Combos directed by Ben Waltzer

Concerts are sponsored by the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, directed by Prof. Chris Washburne, the Music Department, and the Center for Ethnomusicology.

The Center for Jazz Studies invites you to see
The Columbia University Jazz Ensembles in Concert
112 Dodge Hall (enter from College Walk) 8:00 PM Free and open to the public
Wednesday, December 3
Combo directed by Don Sickler

Concerts are sponsored by the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, directed by Prof. Chris Washburne, the Music Department, and the Center for Ethnomusicology.

Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 7:30pm
620 Dodge Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus
Reception to Follow

In 1955, the South African Broadcasting Corporation's controller of 'Bantu Music," Dr. Yvonne Huskisson, had declared that the aim of official cultural policy was to wean Africans away from jazz. By 1969, however, she was praising the SABC for "leading" Africans towards this "sophisticated" music (at least a third of documented working black composers were working in jazz by that time), and by the mid '70s, she was taking a credit as producer on SABC transcription recordings of jazz. How did South African jazz survive, thrive and win this war of the airwaves under the highly unfavorable conditions of the apartheid police state? And what was it about jazz as a music that put it at the center of this struggle?

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Featuring the CU Big Band directed by Don Sickler and CU Jazz Ensembles directed by Ben Waltzer and Ole Mathisen, with guest soloist Steve Wilson on saxophone. This concert is free and open to the public. For more information call (212) 854-7799.

The Center for Jazz Studies Presents:
A Home Within
Sathima Bea Benjamin
in conversation with Professor Gwen Ansell Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor
with guest Onaje Allan Gumbs
Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 7:30pm
Columbia University Dodge Hall, 116th Street & Broadway, Room 622
Columbia University Morningside Campus. Reception to Follow

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A panel of philosophers considers the ethics of improvised conduct. Arnold Davidson, University of Chicago and University of Pisa, with Bernard Gendron, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Lydia Goehr, Columbia University; Eric Lewis, McGill University; Lorenzo Simpson, Stony Brook University. Introduced and Moderated by Carol Rovane, Columbia University