Center for Jazz Studies Staff

Advisory Board
The Center for Jazz Studies
at Columbia University

Jerome Chazen
Chair of the Advisory Board
Chairman, Chazen Capital Partners, LLC
Trustee Emeritus, Columbia University

Robin Bell-Stevens
President and CEO, Jazzmobile, Inc.

Andrew Davis
Attorney at Law

Brent Hayes Edwards
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University

Wallace Ford
President & Chief Operating Officer
GoodWorks International, LLC

Leonard Garment
Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand, Chartered

Stephen Good
Private art dealer

Farah Jasmine Griffin
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University

Phoebe Jacobs
Vice President
Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation

George E. Lewis
Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music
Director, The Center for Jazz Studies
Columbia University

Dan Morgenstern
Director, Institute of Jazz Studies
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Robert G. O’Meally
Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Founding Director, The Center for Jazz Studies
Columbia University

Grace Stanislaus
President & CEO
Romare Bearden Foundation

John Szwed
Professor of Music
Columbia University

George Wein
Festival Productions, Inc.

Christopher Washburne
Associate Professor of Music
Columbia University

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Jazz Studies Online

Jazz Studies Online's rich collection of digital resources–journal articles, books and book chapters, video and audio, teaching materials–is proving tremendously exciting for jazz scholars, musicians, educators, journalists, and the general public. More…

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Louis Armstrong Visiting Professorship

Generous support from the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation enables the Center for Jazz Studies to sponsor Armstrong Visiting Professors to teach jazz-related academic courses and curate public programs. More…

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The Conversations Series

With support from the Ford Foundation, this series of public discussions explores the role of improvisation in the widest array of fields and practices, showing how ideas from jazz culture resonate with the intellectual currents of our time. More…

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Jazz Study Group

The interdisciplinary Jazz Study Group meets regularly to explore new methods of studying the history of jazz, its social context, and its ramifications as a global cultural phenomenon that has influenced all of the arts, the humanities, and even the sciences. More…

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Columbia/Harlem Jazz Project

A New York State Music Fund grant enables the Columbia/Harlem Jazz Project, which presents leading artists in programs that explore and interpret jazz music through a variety of perspectives, to a community where the roots of jazz run deep. More…

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Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice

An international research team, more than thirty scholars from eighteen universities, as well as twelve community groups, explore seven research areas related to improvisation, defining a new interdisciplinary field. More…

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