Webcast – The History of Jazz
This digital videoconference with participants in Dhaka, Bangladesh, will provide an opportunity for an exchange between two different cultures that share similar characteristics. These characteristics include high artistic ideals, a love of jazz and the common goal of playing the music well.
John Edward Hasse is a music historian, pianist and award-winning author and record producer. He serves as curator of American music at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, where he was founding executive director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, an acclaimed big band, and where he founded national Jazz Appreciation Month, celebrated every April throughout the United States.
Hasse is the author of a critically acclaimed biography,
Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington, with a foreword by Wynton Marsalis, and the editor of a major illustrated history,
Jazz: The First Century, with forewords by Tony Bennett and Quincy Jones.
Library Journal called the book “a major contribution to the understanding of jazz.”
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