Representing Jazz in the 21st Century

A Talk by

Prof. Krin Gabbard

In 1995, Krin Gabbard published the anthology, Representing Jazz (Duke University Press), which many believe helped usher in a new era of jazz studies. 

Twenty-four years later, Prof. Gabbard considers how representations of jazz music and jazz artists have changed in the years since

the publication of the anthology.  He will discuss films, novels, and even television programs that have invoked jazz.  Prof. Gabbard teaches in the Jazz Studies

program at Columbia and is the author, most recently, of Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus (University of California Press).

Thursday, April 4, 2019,  7pm

The Forum at Columbia University

This event is free and open to the public but a RSVP is required.

Please email columbiajazzstudies@gmail.com or call 212-851-9270 to secure your seat.

Sunday, April 14th at 8pm

Symphony Space

2537 Broadway at West 95th St.

This Concert is free and open to the public.

For more information about this event, Please click HERE

What do jazz improvisation and the neuroscience of thought have in common? The answers involve prediction, anticipation, exploration and freedom.

In this discussion, Michael Shadlen, MD, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience and principal investigator at the Zuckerman Institute, Chris Washburne, PhD,Director of the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program at Columbia University and Helen Sung, pianist, composer and Zuckerman Institute’s first jazz artist-in-residence, will discuss emerging concepts in neuroscience which begin to expose the biology of deliberation, decision-making and timing. They will demonstrate recordings from brain cells and live music in an interactive dialogue about jazz and neuroscience.

Join us in a celebration of ideation, discovery and expression!

Monday, April 15, 2019
6:30 – 8:00 PM
The Forum at Columbia University 
601 West 125th Street (at the corner of Broadway)
New York, NY 10027

RSVP by Monday, April 8, 2019
Registration is required; Doors open at 5:45 PM
Seating is first come, first served; This event will also be live streamed

To register for this event, please click HERE