Fall Events at the Center for Jazz Studies

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University (CJS) cordially invites you to our upcoming events. The Center sees jazz as a music without borders or limits, and as a model for the integration of forward-thinking modes of scholarly inquiry with innovative teaching and community dialogue.

The four events listed below are free and open to the public, and we welcome your participation. Also please feel free to forward this email to fellow jazz aficionados. We look forward to seeing you.

Thelonious Monk:
The Life and Times of an American Original

A book signing, conversation, and music performance with Robin D.G. Kelley (University of Southern California) and composer/pianist Randy Weston

Prize-winning historian Robin Kelley will discuss his most recent book, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Simon and Schuster, 2009), the first book on the pianist and composer based on exclusive access to the Monk family papers and private recordings. In addition, Professor Kelley will explore Monk's legacy in words and music with pianist and composer Randy Weston.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 7:30 pm
Dwyer Cultural Center
258 St. Nicholas Ave at 123rd Street
Free and open to the public

Presented by the Columbia/Harlem Jazz Project, with support from the Office of the President, Columbia University

"In The Best Possible Light": A Conversation with Herman Leonard
A discussion of "In The Best Possible Light: Herman Leonard's Jazz," an exhibition of Leonard's work at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

With Herman Leonard, photographer; Kellie Jones, Professor of Art History, Columbia University; and Leonard exhibition co-curators C. Daniel Dawson, Diedra Harris-Kelley and Garnette Cadogan.

Introduced and Moderated by Robert G. O'Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Founder, The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University

Monday, October 19, 2009, 7:30 pm
301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus
Free and open to the public

The Louis Armstrong Lecture
James Brown’s Body and The Revolution of the Mind
A talk with author Greg Tate (Visiting Louis Armstrong Professor, Columbia University)

Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor Greg Tate discusses his upcoming book on the life and cultural legacy of “The Godfather of Soul.”

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus
Free and Open to the public

Clawing at the Limits of Cool:
Miles Davis, John Coltrane and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever
A talk and book signing with Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University) and Salim Washington (Brooklyn College)

When Miles Davis invited the young John Coltrane to join his quintet in 1955, a collaboration was born that would change the landscape of jazz. In their new book, "Clawing at the Limits of Cool,” Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington focus on the profound implications of this collaboration.

Wednesday November 11, 2009
301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus
Free and Open to the public

For more information on the Center for Jazz Studies events, please visit www.jazz.columbia.edu or call (212) 851-1633