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2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: “Sheets of Sound: Jazz, Improvisation, and Liner Notes”

September 11 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Free

Please join us from Wednesday, September 11–Saturday, September 14 for the 2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

This year’s event, titled “Sheets of Sound: Jazz, Improvisation, and Liner Notes,” draws inspiration from jazz critic and historian Ira Gitler’s description of legendary jazz saxophonist John Coltrane’s 1958 recording Soultrane. Gitler famously coined the phrase, “sheets of sound” to describe Coltrane’s playing. The event also takes its cues from Daphne Brooks’ recent work, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, highlighting the overlooked contributions of Black women in the history of popular music. Dr. Brooks, one of the colloquium’s keynote speakers, will present a compelling new work on Friday from 2:30–3:45 PM, titled “Liner Notes for the Hurricane: Crate Digging for Porgy and Bess.” The other keynote speaker, Ashley Kahn, a prolific American music historian, will deliver a presentation on Thursday from 3:45–4:45 PM, titled “Liner Noting in the Time of Streaming.”
 
This colloquium will take place in person at ImprovLab (Room 108 MacKinnon Building) on the University of Guelph Campus. The event is free and open to everybody.

More About This Event:

Since 1996 the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, co-presented by the University of Guelph in partnership with the Guelph Jazz Festival, has brought together diverse communities of interest by providing a scholarly forum for dialogue among researchers, creative practitioners, arts presenters, and members of the general public.

The focus of this year’s colloquium is “Liner Notes”

In what ways have liner notes shaped the way the music is received? To what extent do liner notes contribute to the ways in which we negotiate and construct meaning about the music, how we understand history, how and why we listen? In what ways have digital dissemination and streaming services disrupted our notions of liner notes? And how has this shifted listener/audience understanding about their favourite artists?

The learn more about this year’s presenters and to see a full schedule, please follow this link to the colloquium web portal.

Venue

ImprovLab
MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario N1G 1Y4 Canada
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