Center for Jazz Studies Facilities

The Center for Jazz Studies is a unit of Columbia University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences that offers classes, exhibitions, lectures, performances, and scholarly resources in jazz studies to all Columbia students. The Center currently holds office space in Prentis Hall on West 125th Street, provided by Columbia University, where its growing archives include a collection of nearly 70,000 audio and video recordings, as well as a core research collection of several thousand books, and access to the entire Columbia University Library system.

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

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

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

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

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

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