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Women’s History Month at Indiana University
March 8 was International Women’s Day and both Canada and the USA are celebrating Women’s History Month. From Indiana University, Monika Herzig reports that March includes performances by New York…
Jazz Sells: Music, Marketing, and Meaning
IICSI research associate, saxophonist and ethnomusicologist Mark Laver announces the publication of his first book, Jazz Sells: Music, Marketing, and Meaning (Routledge, March 2015). Professor Laver’s research focuses on the…
IICSI Postdoctoral Position 2015-16
The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI)’s mandate is to create positive social change through the confluence of improvisational arts, innovative scholarship, and collaborative action. For the 2015-16…
ImprovNotes February 2015 Artist of the Month: ted joans (1928-2003)
“Jazz is my religion, and Surrealism is my point of view.” Born in Cairo, Illinois in 1928, ted joans moved to New York City in 1951 and became one of…
Think Pieces: Improvisation and Orientalism in PRC
Think Pieces is a special project curated by PhD student Mark Kaethler (School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph). In this piece, Tobin Chodos returns to his work on…
Black Music Research Journal: Special Issue
Long-overdue scholarly research on arranger, composer, jazz trombonist, and music educator Melba Doretta Liston (1926-1999) is now available in Black Music Research Journal, Special Issue on Melba Liston, 34, no.…
Improvising Spaces in St. John’s
The monthly Improvising Spaces workshop and speaker series, curated by IICSI postdoctoral fellow Chris Tonelli, continues in St. John’s, Newfoundland with Session V: Conflict, Communication, & Improvisation at 6 pm on…
AUMI Consortium
The AUMI Consortium is an international research group dedicated to exploring, sustaining, developing, and sharing the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument, a free software download interface that uses camera tracking to…
ImprovNotes January 2015 Artist of the Month: Adolphe Sax (1814-1894)
Before last year completely fades from our overloaded memories, we should note that 2014 marked the 200th birthday of Antoine-Joseph “Adolphe” Sax. Adolphe Sax was a Belgian musical instrument maker…
Canadian Musicians Overseas
Montreal-based double bassist Aaron Lumley reports, “I am spending the winter and part of the spring in Europe: Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Hamburg. I am over here to study double bass…
