Tag Archives: Advocacy

To Rush Would Be A Crime: After Shirley Horn’s Riffs on Albert Murray

May 19, 2016 · by · in Listening..., Living..., Reading..., Teaching... · 1 Comment

Last Tuesday I joined Greg Thomas, Clifford Thompson, and Robert O’Meally on a panel celebrating Albert Murray’s writing and scholarship at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem on the occasion of Murray’s 100th birthday. Given the depth of their personal and studied familiarities with Murray, I’ll admit to being both honored and a bit daunted by the […]

Brute Blows for Garner: Improvising Agency and Celebrating 20 Years of Change at the Vision Festival

July 13, 2015 · by · in Living..., Reading... · 1 Comment

Monday, July 6th, 2015, marked the six-day anniversary of my third move to New York City. By then I had had enough time to rest up after the busy move, stock my fridge from the neighborhood Fairway, and hit up a few of those “only in NYC” spots that I’d missed so much. I spent the 4th […]

Announcing…Sound Breaks – Symposium on Improvisation, Academics, & Social Advocacy

December 18, 2014 · by · in Living..., Playing..., Teaching... · 2 Comments

Part of the reason TRoS has seemed quieter this year is because of many, many hours spent with some long term planning that is finely coming to fruition. There are many to thank for their support and hard work thus far, and we’re all excited to publicly share the news about “Sound Breaks”… “Sound Breaks” will take […]

Hurricane Sandy Relief via the Jazz Foundation of America

January 6, 2013 · by · in Living... · Leave a comment

The Jazz Foundation of America sponsored a benefit concert for Hurricane Sandy relief in November 2012. If you would like to contribute to the desperately needed relief efforts, please do so via this link on the JFoA site.