Jazzforscher
Jazz Researcher
Auf dieser Seite verzeichnen wir aktuelle Forschungsprojekte. Dabei handelt es sich um wissenschaftliche Arbeiten an Universitäten genauso wie um freie wissenschaftliche Studien, diskographische oder biographische Buchprojekte, Dissertationsvorhaben verschiedener Disziplinen. Der Sinn der Seite ist, die Kommunikation unter den weltweit forschenden Kollegen zu erleichtern. Wir werden nach und nach mehr Adressen und Links hinzufügen. Für Ergänzungen oder Korrekturen sind wir wie immer dankbar. Wenn Sie Ihr Projekt hinzugefügt haben möchten, geben Sie uns bitte Ihre komplette Adresse an. Übrigens: Andere internationale Forschungszentren verzeichnen wir auf unserer Archivliste. Auch von Interesse ist vielleicht unsere Seite mit interessanten Forschungsinhalten zum Jazz.
On this page we list current research projects - scholarly studies as well as discographical or biographical book projects or ongoing dissertation projects from different fields concerned in some way with jazz research. With this service we try to make worldwide communication among researchers easier. We will constantly add addresses and links. As always, your input - additions or corrections - is welcome and appreciated. When adding a project, please provide your full address (street address, telephone, fax, e-mail). By the way: other international research facilities can be found on our listing of archives. Or you may want to check our listing of serious research projects published on the web.
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Kurt Albert • Veilhofstraße 37, 90489 Nürnberg, Tel./Fax (0911) 446-6398, e-mail: kurtalbert.tap@t-online.de, Internet: http://www.Kurtalbert.de [6/2003; tap dancer and specialist on tap dance; articles about Tapdancers Carnell Lyons and Buster Brown in the International Tap Associations Magacine "ON TAP" March 2002 and Fall 2002; working on a biography on tap dancer Carnell Lyons]
Tebogo Alexander • PO Box 1702, Parklands, 2121, South Africa, ++ 27 (11) 646 2741, e-mail: afrikajazz@yahoo.com or tebogoalexander@yahoo.co.uk [1/2004; currently researching and writing a book on South African jazz. Any historical, biographical and discographical information would be greatly appreciated. Other interests include world music and the interpretatioon of jazz in African]
Dean Alger • 1356 Eustis St., St. Paul, MN, USA, 55108, USA, Tel. ++1 (612) 388-2925, Internet: http://www.deanalger.com [8/2006; major publications: none in music; four books in other areas, 4th being "Megamedia" (late 1998), general research interest: history of jazz and blues, plus societal impact; current research projects: "Mr. Blues Walks In - The Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music and Society" (book); also a musician, leader of trio, "Dr. D., A.T., and the Z-man"]
Judy Bady • P.O. Box 6306, Paterson, NJ 07509-6306, USA, Tel. (973) 523-2722, Fax (973) 523-8113, e-mail: jbady@yahoo.com [2/2001; works on thesis about Nina Simone]
Jean-Pierre Bailet • 45, rue d'Alleray, F-75015 Paris, France [6/2006; author of analysis of Erroll Garner's repertoire]
Richard Baker • "Hartsmead", 1 Oakleigh Road, Hatch End, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 4 HB, England, Tel./Fax ++44 (20) 428-4353, e-mail: rfoxwellbak@netscapeonline.co.uk [3/2002; wrote a Masters thesis on "History and Roles of Guitar in Jazz to 1950 (completed1983); current research projects: small project for pleasure about British Jazz Groups and Individuals who played and/or recorded in the former GDR (East Germany) between 1949 and 1990
Robert Bander • 612 Clifton Ave Newark, NJ 07104, USA, Tel. ++1 (201) 207-7657, e-mail: rbjazzstudio@aol.com [2/2002; graduate student at Jazz History & Research Program, Rutgers University, Newark; currently works on Masters' thesis on Joe Pass]
Anthony Barnett • 14 Mount Street, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1HL, England, e-mail: ab@abar.net, Internet: http://www.abar.net [12/2001; author of bio-discography about violinist Eddie South; editor of "Fable Bulletin", an irregular magazine about the violin in jazz and improvised music]
LaShonda K. Barnett • 184 Claremont Avenue Apt. 2-S, New York, NY 10027, USA, Tel. ++1 (212) 531-3616, e-mail: bluesette74@yahoo.com, e-mail: lkbar1@mail.wm.edu, Internet: http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~lkbar1 [5/2002; currently works on her Ph.D. thesis entitled: "I Got Thunder, And It Rings: Afrodiasporic Voicing in the Music of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone and Cassandra Wilson. The thesis advances a new, cultural theory on the afrodiasporic 'voice.']
Philippe Baudoin • 5bis Cité du Midi 75018 Paris, France, Tel. ++33 (1) 4255-7888, Mobil-Tel. ++33 (6) 3171-0968, e-mail: pbaudoin@noos.fr, Internet: http://www.baudoinjazz.com [7/2007; pianist, researcher. Teaches and has taught jazz piano, harmony, jazz history and technics in various jazz schools, conservatories and at the Sorbonne University (1990-2005). Author of "Jazz mode d'emploi" (2 vol.), "Une chronologie du jazz". Series of 15 annual lectures about "The History of Jazz", "The Anatomy of Jazz", and "The Great Jazz Composers" at the Cité de la Musique. Some articles in magazines like "Les Cahiers du jazz" (one of them was trying to demonstrate that Charlie Parker stole two French popular songs to compose "My Little Suede Shoes"). Has also realized some exhibitions: "L'Arbre du Jazz" (the jazz tree) and "Dansons le jazz" (about dance in jazz and popular music and entertainment through illustrations of 270 sheet music covers). Specialist of jazz tunes history. Current research: a thematic, historical, musicological catalogue of about 2000 jazz tunes, so Baudoin is collecting sheet music and song books (so far about 20.000 pieces)].
William R. Bauer • Department of Performing and Creative Arts, College of Staten Island/CUNY, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Room 1P-203, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA, Tel. ++1 (718) 982-2534, Fax ++1 (718) 982-2537, e-mail: bauer@mail.csi.cuny.edu [4/2006; PhD on Betty Carter; many publications about Betty Carter and vocal jazz; further publications about music pedagogy; general research interest: Louis Armstrong and the origins of the jazz vocal tradition]
Alexander Beissenhirtz • Mühlenkamp 10, 22303 Hamburg, Tel. (040) 2780-9198, e-mail: ajbz@freenet.de [4/2009; M.A. thesis on "Ishmael Reed als Schriftsteller des Jazz"; general research interest: Jazz and Literature, Jazz Poetry, Jazz History, African-American Literature and History; currently works on a PhD project on jazz autobiographies]
Julian Benedikt • Naupliastraße 106, D-81545 München, Germany, Tel. ++49 (0)89 4190-0411, e-mail: Julian.Benedikt@Maconline.de, Internet: http://www.Julianbenedikt.com [3/2009; movie director; produced and directed the well known movie about Blue Note records , a movie about the photographer William Claxton; director and producer of the movie "Play Your Own Thing" (2006) about jazz music in Europe]
Ed Berger • e-mail: eberger@ibm.net [4/2000; curator of Institute of Jazz Studies in Newark, NJ; published extensive study on the life and music of Benny Carter]
Edward A. Berlin • e-mail: edberlin06@hotmail.com, Internet: http://www.edwardaberlin.com [12/2002; foremost ragtime researcher with many publications on ragtime in general and its composers and performers]
Vincent Bessieres • 39 rue de Turenne, F-75003 Paris, France, Tel./Fax ++33 (1) 4804-9722, e-mail: vincent.bessieres@wanadoo.fr, Internet: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/hardbop [5/2001; journalist publishing in the French "Jazzman" magazine; research interest in hardbop (and beyond); currently works on a bio-discography on Lee Morgan based on articles and interviews of musicians who have played/recorded with Morgan]
Christian Béthune • 24 rue de l'Ancien Couvent, Pompignat, F-63119 Chateaugay, France, Tel. ++33 (4) 7325-4446 [10/99; journalist for several French magazines; published books on Sidney Bechet and "Adorno et le Jazz" (2003)]
Gerard Bielderman • Leie 18, NL-8032 ZG Zwolle, Netherlands, Tel. ++31 (38) 453-7821, e-mail: gerard.bielderman@tiscali.nl [12/2005; major publications: discographical books/booklets in 3 series "Eurojazz Discos", "Swingin' Americans", "Sounds of New Orleans"; general research interest: discographical research of traditional and mainstream jazz musicians and bands; current research projects: discographical research on Scott Robinson, Danny Moss, Jon-Erik Kellso, Butch Thompson, Dan Barrett, Marty Grosz]
Benjamin Bierman • 484 East 24th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA, Tel. ++1 (718) 434-0534, e-mail: ben@benbierman.com [3/2009; did his Ph.D. dissertation (The Graduate Center, City University of New York, May 2006) on "The Music of George Handy", a biography of George Handy, and a close reading analysis of three major works: "Dalvatore Sally", "The Bloos", and "The Caine Flute Sonata"; general research interests: jazz and American music; current research project: the progressive compositional movement]
George Bonifacio • 404 Argenti Place, Northvale, NJ 07647-1304, USA, Tel. 001 (201) 768-0076 (home), Tel. 001 (201) 445-0620 extension 419 (office), Tel. (800) 929-3304, extension 419 office (US calls only), e-mail: chinacatgb@aol.com (home), e-mail: g_bonifacio@winebow.com (office) [1/2000; current researching on an extensive Rahsaan Roland Kirk project, including a discography (90% up to date), a chronology and a bibliography. Plans for newsletters, discussion groups, photo library, video clips, etc.He is searching for live recordings both audio and video by or with Kirk. Also searching for anything printed about Rahsaan, reviews, interviews, articles, posters, handbills. Finally searching for any chronological information, tour schedules/itineraries, confirmed dates, personnel. Collector of all recordings, all formats, by or with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, LP, EP, 45, CD, cassette, 8-track, reel to reel]
Enrico Borsetti • Via Ugo Bertossi 4/Int.15, I-00159 Roma, Italy, Tel. ++39 (06) 4353-2980, e-mail: aleborsetti@tiscalinet.it [12/2000; currently works on a discography of Bix Beiderbecke; research also on Carlo Buti]
Stephen Bourne • 108 Castlemead, Camberwell, London SE5 0EB, England [2/2001; currently works on a biography of singer Adelaide Hall to be published in October 2001]
David Bradbury • 21 Marsden Street, London NW5 3HE, England, Tel. ++44 (20) 7428-0444, e-mail: davidjane.bradbury@ouvip.com [11/2003; major publications: Armstrong. Life and Times, Haus Publishing, London 2003; current research Working on a biography of Duke Ellington for general readers]
Peter Broadbent • Great Britain, e-mail: charliechristian.archive@ntlworld.com, Internet: http://www.charliechristianarchive.com (will be online in 2003) [1/2003; major publications: "Charlie Christian. The Seminal Electric Guitarist", Ashley Mark Publishing 1997; "Charlie Christian - Solo Flight. The Story of the Seminal Electric Guitarist", Ashley Mark Publishing 2003; general research interest: Jazz Guitar; current research projects: Charlie Christian, Tal Farlow, Jimmy Raney, Rene Thomas]
David M. Brown • 10 Rosamond Drive, Bradway, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S17 4LW, United Kingdom, Tel. ++44 (114) 272-2143, e-mail: dmbrown@tofields.co.uk and/or e-mail: david@10rosdv.fsnet.co.uk [2/2004; works on Larry Coryell discography/bibliography/chronology; searching for tapes (audio and video) of concerts, TV/radio broadcasts, interviews, photographs, magazine/newspaper articles and reviews, tour/concert itineraries, handbills, concert programmes/posters and infact any Coryell-related memorabilia]
Frank Büchmann-Møller • Carl Nielsen Academy of Music, Islandsgade 2, DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark, Tel. (direct) ++45 66.11.04.38/19, e-mail [work]: fbm@bib.sdu.dk or (privat address) Thomas Overskousvej 4, DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark, Tel. ++45 66.11.83.27, Fax ++45 66.11.06.78, e-mail: fbm@nal-net.dk [5/2007; Danish researcher; author of "Someone To Watch Over Me. The Life And Music of Ben Webster". (University of Michigan Press, 2006); also author of two highly praised books on Lester Young ("You Just Fight For Your Life; the Story of Lester Young", Praeger 1990; "You Got To Be Original, Man! the Music of Lester Young", Greenwood Press 1990) as well as a jazz photo book ("Is This To Be My Souvenir? Jazz Photos from the Timme Rosenkrantz Collection 1918-1969", Odense University Press, 2000); current research for a book on Jazzhus Montmartre, the old one which was located in Store Regnegade in Copenhagen and which operated during the years 1959-1974 under the leadership of Herluf Kamp Larsen in which musicians such as Stan Getz, Bud Powell, Oscar Pettiford, Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster, Sonny Rollins and others played for weeks]
Jordi Bugol • Tel. ++34 (607) 654368, e-mail: jordibugol@bluemoon.es [10/2002; Currently doing research on the catalan jazz scene, especially Barcelone in the early fifties and sixties]
Susanne Bunzel • Universität Leipzig, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Ritterstraße 16, 04109 Leipzig, Germany, Mobil-Tel. ++49 (162) 135-3503, e-mail: susannebunzel@yahoo.de [6/2007; general research interest: connection between anthropology, jazz and performance studies since the 1930s; beginnings of jazz research in France, U.S.A. and Germany; improvisation and the knowledge of the body; current research: writing PhD thesisabout the examination of jazz in dances studies and anthropologie (working title in German: Kontaktzone Jazz: Auseinandersetzung mit dem Jazz in Tanzkulturen und der Anthropologie); projects: preparing workshops for ad-lib theatre (pantomime)]
Mark Burford • 362 Riverside Drive #4C4, New York, NY 10025, USA, Tel. (212) 853-8213, e-mail: mjb58@columbia.edu [11/2000; Currently doing biographical and discographical research on Horace Silver]
Vincenzo Caporaletti • Via Ruzzi 24, I-63012 Cupra Marittima (AP), Italy, Tel./Fax ++39 (0735) 777836, e-mail: v.caporaletti@sidma.it [3/2002; musicologist and music theorist; founder of "Italian Society of African-American Studies in Musicology and Music Theory" (SIdMA); major publications: author of the book 'La definizione dello swing. I fondamenti estetici del jazz e delle musiche audiotattili' (2001) and of many scholarly essays and editions; general research interest: general research on all aspects of black music, with special interest in jazz aesthetics, music theory and analysis; current research projects: jazz aesthetics (improvisation) and theory of rhythm. Caporaletti is also a musician and composer, his research and edition interests also include classical music (Italian instrumental music of XVIII and first half of XIX Century).
Gary Carner • 110 Montclair Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07042, USA, Tel. ++1 (973) 509-0971, Fax ++1 (973) 744-0619, e-mail: gcarner@home.com [10/99; musicologist, author of an extensive jazz performers' bibliography, editor of "Miles Davis Companion"; currently works on a bio-discography about Pepper Adams]
Luca Cerchiari • Piazza Lima 1, I-20124 Milano, Italy, Tel. ++39 (02) 204-3559, Tel. ++39 (338) 508-6962, e-mail: lucacerc@tin.it; or: c/o Dipartimento di storia delle arti visive e della musica, 7 Piazza Capitaniato, I-35139 Padua Italy [11/2008; professor of afro-american music at Padua University; general research interest:Jazz theory and history; Discography; Ragtime; Jazz and Europe; major publications: "Jazz" (1997); "Scott Joplin's Treemonisha" (2001); "On record" (2001); "Jazz and fascism" (2003); "Greensleeves" (2007); "Around jazz" (2007); "Miles Davis" (2008)]
Eric Charry • c/o Music Department, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, USA, Tel. (860) 685-2579, Fax (860) 685-2651, e-mail: echarry@wesleyan.edu, Internet: http://www.wesleyan.edu/~echarry [10/2002; major publications: Mande Music (U. of Chicago Press, 2000), "Freedom and Form in Ornette Coleman's Early Atlantic Recordings," Annual Review of Jazz Studies 9: 261-294; general research interest: Jazz after 1960; current research projects: History of avant-garde in NY, late 1950s through 1960s
David Chevan • Music Department, Southern Connecticut State University, 501Crescent Street, New Haven, CT 06514, USA, Tel. ++1 (203) 392-6630, Fax ++1 (203) 392- 6637, e-mail: chevan@scsu.ctstateu.edu [10/99; musicologist, author of articles on Riverboat Music and Early Jazz, and bass playing in early jazz. Recently completed dissertation, "Written Music in Early Jazz," (1997, City University of New York). Current projects are a concordance of published jazz fakebooks (both legal and illegal), a study of the compositions Louis Armstrong, and a history of jazz bass playing]
John Chilton • 3 Great Ormond Street, London WC1 N3RA, England, Tel. ++44 (207) 404-0016 [11/2003; author of many books and biographies of jazz musicians (Coleman Hawkins, Henry Red Allen, Sidney Bechet, Billie Holiday, Louis Jordan and many others]
Noal Cohen • 15 Glen Ridge Ave., Unit 33, Montclair, NJ 07042, USA, Tel. ++1 (973) 746-4916, Fax ++1 (973) 655-0025, e-mail: cohens2@mindspring.com, Internet: http://www.attictoys.com/jazz [9/2006; discographical research on Teddy Charles, Elmo Hope, Tiny Kahn, Joe Locke, Carl Perkins, Benny Powell, Frank Strozier, Lucky Thompson (all on website). Co-author of "Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce" (Berkeley Hills Books, 2002)]
Graham Collier • Apartado 477, 29400 Ronda, Malaga, Spain, Tel./Fax ++34 (952) 874285, e-mail: graham@jazzcontinuum.com, Internet: http://www.jazzcontinuum.com [11/2003; musician, teacher, pedagogue, historian with a couple of important books on jazz education, on how to play jazz, on how to listen to jazz; his website includes a thought provoking (ongoing) thesis on jazz aesthetics, jazz history, social aspects of jazz etc.: http://www.jazzcontinuum.com/jc_tnb1.html. Major publications: "Interaction, Opening Up the Jazz Ensemble" (Advance Music); editor and contributor for the complete run (20 issues over 7 years) of "Jazz Changes", the magazine of "The International Association of Jazz Schools"; general research interest: jazz composition, large jazz ensemble and jazz education as it refers to those areas; current research projects: continuing to work on "This is Not a Book", a web-based participatory project, dealing with his ideas on jazz and jazz composition (see above). Comment by Collier: Although esentially a jazz composer I am >involved, as the above shows, in continuing to develop my thinking about jazz and jazz composition.]
Michael Conklin • 29 Dawes Avenue, Ewing, NJ 08638; conklin@tcj.edu, Website: www.thisquietfire.wordpress.com [7/2010; research interests in Bill Evans, jazz theory/harmony; work has been published by Oxford University Press, Scarecrow Press and Salem Press; MA Jazz History and Research from Rutgers University (2007)]
Denis-Constant Martin • Allée du Faisan doré, La Hauresse, F-33125 Louchats, France, Tel./Fax ++33 (5) 5688-5837, e-mail: dcmartin@club-internet.fr, Internet: http://www.ceri-sciences-po.org [12/2001; major publications (books only): "Aux sources du reggae", Marseille 1982 [Parenthèses]; "L'Amérique de Mingus, musique et politique: les 'Fables of Faubus' de Charles Mingus" (with Didier Levallet), Paris 1991 [P.O.L.]; "Le gospel afro-américain, des spirituals au rap religieux, Arles 1998 [Cité de la musique/Actes Sud]; "La France du jazz, musique, modernité et identité dans la première moitié du 20ème siècle" (with Olivier Roueff), Marseille, to be published in 2002 [Parenthèses]; general research interest: comparative studies of the relationship between culture and politics, with a particular interest in popular festivals (carnivals for instance) and popular music (including jazz in the US, France and South Africa), and an emphasis on the political expression of communal identities. Fields of investigation: African-American, West Indian and South African cultures (including musics). Current research projects: beginnings of jazz in France; jazz in South Africa; influence of American blackface minstrelsy on South African musics, with a particular reference to Cape Town orchestral and vocal musics.]
Vincent Cotro • 54, Vallée de Nouy, F-37210 Vouvray, France, Tel. ++33 (2) 4752-6860, Mobil-Tel. ++33 (2) 8385-9464, e-mail: vincent.cotro@wanadoo.fr [11/2005; author of book "Chants Libres - Le free jazz en France 1960-1975" (Paris, éd. Outre Mesure 1999); essay "Duke Ellington vers la grande forme: Creole Rhapsody (1931)", in: Les Cahiers du Jazz (nouvelle série, janvier 2001); articles in Les Cahiers du Centre International de Recherche en Esthétique Musicale, Les Cahiers du Jazz, L'Analyse Musicale; currently prepares a French translation of Ekkehard Jost's book "Free Jazz"; general research interest: musicology (history, analysis, problems of musical descrption and transcription), relationships between improvisation and composition, jazz after 1960; current research projects: Je prépare des travaux sur le métissage historique et la notion de relecture dans le jazz des années 1990/2000 ("hommages à...", "Tribute to...", etc..). Je suis maître de conférences et actuellement directeur du Département de musique et musicologie de l'Université de Tours. J'ai travaillé à l'entrée du jazz dans les programmes des concours nationaux français pour le recrutement des professeurs d'éducation musicale (Capes/Agregation)
P.J. Cotroneo • USA, Internet: www.pjcotroneoband.com [4/2009; research on Eric Dolphy]
John Cottrell • 316 10 Avenue South West, Birmingham, Alabama 35211, USA, Tel. ++1 (205) 251-3134, Fax ++1 (205) 923-3450, e-mail: jacottrell@aol.com [6/2001; research concerning the music of Wayne Shorter]
Franklyn (Frank) Cudjoe • c/o School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom, Tel. ++44 (0113) 233-3300 (department), Tel. ++44 (0113) 233-6755 (office), Fax ++44 (0113) 233-3308, e-mail: f.cudjoe@geog.leeds.ac.uk, Internet: http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/staff/f.cudjoe/f.cudjoe.html [8/2001; general research interest: sports, music (mainly everything up to 1990s), and all things geographical; current research projects: Jazz: Its Geographical Diffusion Throughout The USA 1917-1945. (other remarks...): "Those who have looked at my short C.V. would have noticed my M.Phil thesis was based on organic farming ( 'The Nature and Role of Organic Farming in Britain'). If you're confused about the relationship between the research areas, the explanation is quite simple, I listened to quite a lot of music and jazz programmes while writing my MPhil thesis. One recurring theme on the jazz programmes was the link presenters made between New Orleans, Mississippi, Chicago and jazz. However, their explanations on this never seemed adequate. To borrow a phrase, 'I had been bitten'."]
Laurent Cugny • 10 rue Desire Charton, F-93100 Montreuil, France, Tel. ++33(1) 4858-1228, Fax ++33 (1) 4858-1228, e-mail: laurent.cugny@chello.fr [7/2002; pianist and jazz researcher, teaches jazz analysis at La Sorbonne University; major publications:"Las Vegas Tango - Une vie de Gil Evans", "Electrique - Miles Davis 1968-1975"; general research interest: jazz analysis]
Alfons Michael Dauer • Schubertstrasse 70/II, A-8010 Graz, Austria, Tel. ++43 (316) 321290 [12/99; German musicologist author of the 1958 book "Jazz. Seine Ursprünge und seine Entwicklung" and other studies on the developments of early jazz and pre-jazz]
Ernesto De Pascale • Via C. Salutati, 9, I-50212 Firenze, Italy, Tel./Fax ++39 (055) 6580671, e-mail: lamauric@tin.it, Internet: http://www.cometanet.it/ilpopolodelblues [4/2000; currently researches the music and recordings of Oliver Nelson, Shirley Scott, Jimmy Smith, Leon Thomas; also producer of the "Il popolo del blues" label and author of various books]
Jeroen De Valk • De Vlijtstraat 24, NL-3816 VT Amersfoort, Netherlands, Tel./Fax ++31 (33) 475-3736, e-mail: jeroen.de.valk@planet.nl, Internet: http://www.jeroendevalk.nl [1/2002; author of biographies on Chet Baker and Ben Webster, published both in Europe and the USA, and countless articles in newspapers and magazines since 1979]
Scott DeVeaux • 1620 Bruce Avenue, Charlottesville VA 22903-1312, USA, Tel. ++1 (804) 977-7369, Fax ++1 (804) 924-6033 (McIntire Dept. of Music, University of Virginia), e-mail: deveaux@virginia.edu [3/2001; author of "The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History" (1997) and other books on jazz; general research interest: "as many aspects of jazz and American music generally as I can manage...."]
Kurt Dietrich •1104 Cul de Sac St., Ripon, Wisconsin 54971, USA, Tel. 001 (920) 748-7481, Fax 001 (920) 748-8181, e-mail: dietrichk@ripon.edu (work), e-mail: dietch@centurytel.net (home), Internet: http://www.ripon.edu/academics/faculty/DietrichK/index.html [6/2008; major publications: " Duke's 'Bones: Ellington's Great Trombonists" (Advance Music, 1995); "Jazz 'Bones: The World of Jazz Trombone" (Advance Music, 2005); general research interest: jazz trombone, Duke Ellington, Slide Hampton; current research: Slide Hampton; projects: biography of Slide Hampton]
Clive Downs • 2 Ennerdale Rd, Reading Berks, RG2 7HH, England, +44 (0)1189 758176, e-mail: clive_downs@hotmail.com, Internet: http://home.elp.rr.com/valdes/ [11/99; researches on Charlie Christian; publishes biographical bibliography in net]
Michael Dregni • 3620 35th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406, USA, Tel. ++1 (612) 721-6508, Fax ++1 (651) 430-2211, e-mail: mdregni@voyageurpress.com [6/2003; major publications: "Django in America," forthcoming biography of Django Reinhardt in fall 2004 from Oxford University Press; general research interest: Gypsy Jazz; current research projects: Django Reinhardt; Baro, Sarane, and Matelo Ferret]
José Duarte • Rua da Lapa 74-4, 1200-703 Lisboa, Portugal, Tel./Fax ++351 (21) 396-3745, e-mail: joseduarte@jazzportugal.ua.pt, Internet: http://www.jazzportugal.ua.pt, [4/2002; writes regularly for Down Beat, Portuguese Press, Portuguese Radio; general research interest: Pre-History of Jazz (with Portuguese involvment); current research projects: International and Portuguese Literature relations with Jazz]
Tor Dybo • c/o Nesna College, N-8700 Nesna, Norway, e-mail: Tor.Dybo@hinesna.no [4/2001; wrote PhD thesis on the music of Jan Garbarek]
Alexander Ebert • Berlin, Germany [01/2010; DJ, freelance-contributor to various german magazines; general research interest: jazz and literature, ralph ellison, jazz historiography, black vernacular; current research projects: works on thesis "jazz in american literature"]
Brent Edwards • c/o English Department, Murray Hall, 510 George Street, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA, Tel. (732) 932-7133, Fax: (732) 932-1150, e-mail: bedwards@rci.rutgers.edu [10/2002; major publications: "Jazz Poetics," special issue edited with Farah Jasmine Griffin and Maria Damon, Callaloo 25.1 (Winter 2002); "Louis Armstrong and the Syntax of Scat," Critical Inquiry 28.3 (Spring 2002): 618-649; "Evidence," Transition 90 (2002): 42-67; "The Literary Ellington," Representations 77 (Winter 2002): 1-29; "Notes on Poetics Regarding Mackey's Song," Callaloo 23.2 (Spring 2000): 572-91; "The Race for Space: Sun Ra's Poetry," Hambone 14 (Spring 1998): 177-200; Reprinted in The World in Time and Space: Towards a History Of Innovative American Poetry, 1970-2000, ed. Ed Foster and Joseph Donahue (Jersey City, NJ: Talisman House, 2002). 587-613; general research interest: jazz and literature
Bill Egan • 36 Gundara St, Aranda, Canberra, ACT 2614, Australia, Tel. ++61 (2) 6251-2008, e-mail: Wegan@pcug.org.au, Internet: http://www.florencemills.com [12/2006; current research on singer/dancer/actress Florence Mills, and on African American entertainers in Australasia 1865-1941]
Torsten Eßer • Siegfriedstraße 4, 50678 Köln, Tel. (0221) 385455, e-mail: cedi66@hotmail.com [9/2003; publishes and works about latin jazz and jazz in Latin America; music in Latin America in general and about music and the internet. Works recently on a book about "music and politics in Latin America". Recent publications: Editor (together with Patrick Frölicher): "Alles in meinem Dasein ist Musik... Kubanische Musik von Rumba bis Techno" (i.E.; Vervuert, Frankfurt 2004); "music-and-sound.de. Musik im Internet" (Papyrossa, Köln 2000)]
Kevin Fellezs • 7 Mayfair Drive, San Francisco, CA, 94118, USA, Tel. (415) 750-1702, e-mail: kaf@cats.ucsc.edu, Internet: http://www.fjaz.com/ [3/2002; PhD student working on his dissertation thesis concerned with jazz-rock fusion of the 1960s and 1970; general research interests: popular culture, jazz (particularly free jazz, fusion, and contemporary avant-garde artists), avant-garde movements in 20th century music, film and photographic representations of jazz artists]
Cornell Fields • 7001 Laurel Court, Monmouth Jct., NJ 08852-2211, Tel. ++1 (732) 422-6321, e-mail: cornellfields@hotmail.com [1/2002; currently working on a master's thesis focusing on how jazz has been used as a vehicle to convey theological concepts]
Silvana K. Figueroa-Dreher • c/o Universität Konstanz, FB Geschichte und Soziologie, Fach D 35, 78457 Konstanz, Germany, Tel. ++49 (7531) 88 3399, e-mail: Silvana.Figueroa@uni-konstanz.de, Internet: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/soziologie/improvisation [3/2009; sociologist, post-doc, is conducting a research project about improvising within free jazz and flamenco at the University of Constance. She analyses improvising principally - but not exclusively - from the perspective of the theory/ies of action and of interation]
Michael Fitzgerald • c/o Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives, University of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Ave., NW, Bldg 41, Washington, DC 20008, USA, e-mail: mike@jazzdiscography.com, Internet: http://www.JazzDiscography.com [11/2009; research on Kenny Barron, Art Blakey, Henry Grimes, Slide Hampton, Perry Robinson, Ira Sullivan, and many others - all on website. Co-author of "Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce" (Berkeley Hills Books, 2002)]
Gavin Franklin • Melbourne, Australia, Tel. ++61 (3) 5568-1623, e-mail: gavinf@ansonic.com.au [10/99; currently works on a musicological PhD study about the music of Woody Shaw]
Kevin C. Frey • 7 Elmwood Avenue, West Orange, NJ 07052, USA, Tel. (973) 736-3511, e-mail: kcfry3@comcast.net [3/2002; graduate student at Jazz History & Research Program, Rutgers University, Newark; currently works on Masters' thesis on Chico Hamilton]
Adam Gaines • 1292 Ellis Woods Rd., Pottstown, PA 19465, USA, Tel. (610) 792-1515, e-mail: awgaines@hotmail.com, Internet: http://adamgaines.tripod.com [12/2004; general research interest: Art Farmer; currently works on a dissertation on life/music of Art Farmer]
Grant Gardner • c/o Music Department, Rutgers University, 81 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA, Tel. ++1 (925) 324-6916, Internet: http://freygar.com [3/2007; guitarist and student at the Jazz Research program at Rutgers University; works on a project about Jimmy Giuffre]
Agustín Pérez Gasco • E-28002 Madrid, Spain, Tel. ++34 (6) 5010-5890, e-mail: ekebbbapg@yahoo.es [3/2007; current research: Tete Montoliu Discography, available at Michael Fitzgerald's Jazz Discography website: http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Montoliu/]
Susanne Gläss • Mathildenstraße 8, 28203 Bremen; or: c/o Uni Bremen, Fb 9, Postfach 330 440, 28334 Bremen, Germany, e-mail: sglaess@uni-bremen.de [2/2000; German musicologist; wrote her PhD thesis on the violin in jazz]
Brian Glasser • 13 Callcott Road, London NW6 7EB, England, Tel. ++44 (20) 7372-7824 [home], Tel. ++44 (20) 7830-2804 [work], e-mail: briang@rfhsm.ac.uk [5/2000; currentlich works on a biography of Joe Zawinul]
Leslie Gourse • 55 Bethune Street, Apt. 222G, New York, NY 10014, USA, Tel. (212) 627-7948, Fax (212) 627-7022, e-mail: LesGourse@aol.com [3/2001; author of several book-length biographies like those on Wynton Marsalis, Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan, Joe Williams; editor of companion books on Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday; author of book on women instrumentalists in jazz and American jazz singers]
Janice Greenberg • e-mail: morjan102785@yahoo.com [4/2008; librarian; writing bibliography of Jazz books published in the 1990's]
Carl A. Hallström • Sweden, e-mail: dooji@swipnet.se, Internet: http://home.swipnet.se/dooj [5/2009; discographer; compiled an online listing of Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) Jubilee Transcriptions]
Max Harrison • 8 Chatham Close, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London NW11 6HE, England, Tel. ++44 (20) 8458-5685 [8/2002; well known author of books and essays on all aspects of jazz history]
Mike Heffley • 3129 SE Franklin Street, Portland, OR 97202, USA, Tel. ++1 (860) 538-0664, e-mail: mheffley@wesleyan.edu, Internet: http://www.wesleyan.edu/~mheffley, Internet: http://www.almatour.org, Internet: http://www.heffleyrecords.com [1/2007; author of "The Music of Anthony Braxton"; "Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe's Reinvention of Jazz")
Herbert Hellhund • Södeker Straße 27, 30161 Hannover, Germany [12/99; wrote his PhD thesis on cool jazz]
Juha Henriksson • c/o Finnish Jazz & Pop Archive, Arabiankatu 2, FIN-00560 Helsinki, Tel. ++358 (9) 757-0040, Fax ++358 (9) 757-0044, e-mail: japa@musicfinland.com [12/99; Finnish musicologist, director of Finnish Jazz & Pop Archive, chair of the Finnish Ethnomusicological Society, PhD dissertation "Chasing the Bird. Functional Harmony in Charlie Parker's Bebop Themes". University of Helsinki 1999. Current project is a study of the music of Toivo Kärki, a famous Finnish composer of popular music and jazz]
Drew Herman • 1405 Eastview Drive, Coralville, IA 52241, USA, Tel. ++1 (319) 339-7913, e-mail: drew-herman@uiowa.edu [9/2001; major publications: "The Eternal Jazzy Now: Jazz in Czechoslovakia to 1958" (International Jazz Archive Journal, University of Pittsburgh, ca. 1996); general research interest: Early diffusion of jazz around the world; current research projects: Chicago musicians in Britain ca.192
Monika Herzig • 3375 E Old Myers Rd, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA, Tel. ++1 (812) 334-3022, Fax ++1 (812) 334-3051, e-mail: mherzig@indiana.edu, Internet: http://www.acmerecords.com [6/2000; PhD dissertation about "Jazz Piano Pedagogy - A Content Analysis". comparing jazz piano method books by Bill Dobbins, Mark Levine, Phil DeGregg, Clare Fischer, Jeff Helmer, and Bill Cunliffe. Published "Jazz Pedagogy - A Review of the Literature" and "A Style Analysis of Chick Corea Chick's Harmonic, Rhythmic, and Melodic Approach". Currently works on a comparison of different approaches to the same tune by different piano trios.
Jörg Heuser • Georg-Büchner-Straße 15, 55129 Mainz, Germany, Tel./Fax ++49 (6131) 508716, e-mail: heuser@addcom.de, Internet: http://www.docheuser.de und Internet: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~scheb002/jazz.htm [10/99; wrote his PhD thesis on the music of Pat Martino; did many (mainly guitar) transcriptions]
Bernd Hoffmann • Veit-Stoss-Straße 16a, 50933 Köln, Germany, Tel. ++49 (221) 484-4916, Fax ++49 (221) 483557, e-mail: BerndKJHoffmann@compuserve.com [2/2000; current research about postwar jazz in Germany]
Fabian Holt • University of Roskilde, Institute VII, Department of Communication, Universitetsvej 1, Building 44.2, Postboks 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark, e-mail: fabian@holt.dk [7/2006]
Andrew Homzy • 4656 Patricia Avenue, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1Z1, Canada; Tel. ++1 (514) 489-0418 (home); Tel. ++1 (514) 848-4709 (work), Fax ++1 (514) 848-2808, e-mail: homzy@vax2.concordia.ca [3/2000; Canadian musicologist; published important studies on Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Tadd Dameron and others; initiator of the "Duke Ellington Mailing List"]
Raymond Horricks • 82 High Street, Wootton, Isle of Wight PO33 4PR, England, Tel. ++44 (1983) 1983-883792 [11/2000; author of many books and essays on all aspects of jazz]
George Hulme • Willowbank, 1 London Road, Old Basing, Hants RG24 7JE, England, Tel. ++44 (1256) 463437, Fax ++44 (1256) 844305, e-mail: george.willowbank@btinternet.com [7/2002; major publications: "Mel Torme A Chronicle of His Recordings, Books and Films" (McFarland & Company Inc); general research interest: Traditional jazz, especially British and Australian; Count Basie and other big jazz bands; current research projects: Bobby Hackett (discography, biography, articles on style and work) for publication as a book. My co-worker is Bert Whyatt. Remarks: "I have been a discographer since 1948. I was a contributor to The Discophile and editor of Matrix. I have had numerous discographies and articles published. I was a contributor to Jazz Records 1962-1965 ("Jepson") and I continue to contribute to Erik Raben's revision, Jazz Records 1942-1980]
Andrew Hurley • Institute of International Studies, University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia, Tel. ++61 (2) 9514-1653, Fax ++61 (2) 9514-1578, e-mail: andrew.hurley@uts.edu.au [8/2007; major publications: Jazz Meets the World: Joachim Ernst Berendt and his role in West German cultural change, 1945-1985 (forthcoming); general research interest: Jazz reception in Germany, World Music and World Jazz; current research: Jazz in literature and film, intercultural collaboration]
Tom Hustad • 3101 Daniel Street, Bloomington, IN 47401, USA [8/2000;currently works on discography of Ruby Braff]
Konstantin Jahn • Prießnitzstraße 5 01099 Dresden, Germany, Tel. ++49 (351) 895-1521, e-mail: koi.j@gmx.de, Internet: http://www.paregoric-art.com/4saxess.de [7/2007; general research interest: films, theatre; current research: jazz soundtracks; projects: PhD thesis on jazz as filmmusic9
Edgar Jordan • 2 Caldwell Avenue, Summit, NJ 07901, USA, Tel. ++1 (908) 277-1983, e-mail: edgarjordan@comcast.net [4/2002; currently doing research for a thesis on Roy Eldridge, including biographical information, discography, filmography and musical analysis.
Ekkehard Jost • Georg-Phillip-Gail-Strasse 10, 35394 Giessen, Germany, Tel./Fax ++49 (641) 47523, e-mail: ekkus.giessen@t-online.de [12/2004; German musicologist, author of books on "Free Jazz", "Jazz in Europa", "Sozialgeschichte des Jazz in den USA"]
Patricia Julien • University of Vermont, Southwick Music Complex, Burlington, VT 05405, USA, Tel. ++1 (802) 656-7760, e-mail: pjulien@zoo.uvm.edu [8/2002; musicoloist, Assistant Professor, Theory/Jazz; currently works on her PhD thesis with a dissertation project entitled: "The Structural Function of Harmonic Relations in Wayne Shorter's Early Compositions: 1959-1963"; general research interests: harmonic relations, form, Wayne Shorter]
Friedel Keim • Eichendorffstrasse 6, 55122 Mainz, Germany, Tel. ++49 (6131) 320435, Fax ++49 (611) 3291-2602 [10/99; author of a biographical dictionary of trumpet players; currently works on additions and corrections to the second edition of this dictionary]
Clifford Korman • 74 Halsey Street Apt. 1, Brooklyn, NY 11216, USA, Tel. ++1 (718) 783-5515, Fax ++1 (718) 783-5515, e-mail: cliffkorman@thebraziliantinge.com, Internet: http://www.jazzcorner.com/korman [11/2001; major publications: Article in Annual Review of Jazz Studies Vol. 10: "Criss Cross: Motivic Development in Composition and Improvisation; Instructional book for Sher Publications "Inside the Brazilian Rhythm Section" (January 2002); general research interest: Brazilian popular instrumental music, Pan-American piano music, and cross-cultural influences in improvised music of the Americas; current research projects: Improvisation in the Brazilian choro. Two CD's with Brazilian saxophonist/clarinetist Paulo Moura "Mood Ingênuo" and "Gafieira Dance Brasil"; Producer and arranger for Chesky Records]
Wolfram Knauer • c/o Jazz-Institut Darmstadt, Bessunger Strasse 88d, 64285 Darmstadt, Germany, Tel. ++49 (6151) 963740, Fax ++49 (6151) 953744, e-mail: knauer@jazzinstitut.de, Internet: http://www.jazzinstitut.de [4/2005; German musicologist and director of Jazz-Institut Darmstadt, author of a two volume analytical study about Third Stream and the Modern Jazz Quartet, editor of book series "Darmstaedter Beitraege zur Jazzforschung" (8 volumes so far), general research on all aspects of jazz history and jazz aesthetics]
Richard Knowles • Peck Farm, Moretonhampstead near Newton Abbot, Devon TQ13 8QU, England, Tel. 0044 (1647) 221400 [12/99; wrote book about New Orleans brass band tradition]
Keith Knox • Dalagatan 33, S-113 23 Stockholm, Sweden, Tel. ++46 (8) 335683, Fax ++46 (8) 349918, e-mail: knoxkeith@hotmail.com [5/2000; currently works on a book about Don Cherry's time in Sweden]
Volker Kölln • Am Buchenknick 53, D-27432 Bremervörde, Tel. ++49 (04761) 921540, Tel. ++49 (04761) 921542, Fax ++49 (04761) 921541, e-mail: vkoelln@web.de [1/2004; currently works on biography of German drummer Hartwig Bartz]
John Kruth • Tel. ++1 (212) 673-4885, e-mail: jdkruth@hotmail.com [3/2000; author of book "Bright Moments. The Life and Legacy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk]
Martin Kunzler • Finkenweg 13, 69123 Heidelberg, Tel. (06221) 737736, e-mail: Kunzler@t-online.de [9/2000; author of "ro-ro-ro Jazz Lexikon"]
Mark Ladenson • 230 Oxford Road, E. Lansing/MI 48823, USA, Tel. ++1(517) 332-4721, Fax ++1 (517) 432-1068, e-mail: LADENSO1@pilot.msu.edu, Internet: http://www.geocities/com/LADENSO1/index.html [11/2000; major publications: article in the Aug-Sept '89 issue of "Coda" on the early career of Wardell Gray. General research interest: Wardell Gray, Charlie Parker, and the entire classic bop period, photographs of great jazz artists taken for the most part at the Chicago Jazz Festival, and for the Bird-KLON archive]
Sonya Lawson • 309 4th Avenue, Murfreesboro, TN 37130, USA, Tel. ++1 (615) 494-3759, e-mail: slawson@mtsu.edu [12/2001; general research interest:strings in jazz; women in jazz; current research projects: dissertation on use of violin, viola, cello in jazz]
Anne Legrand • 6, rue Lekain, 75116 Paris, France, Tel./Fax ++33 (0)1 4520-9176, e-mail: zazou1942@yahoo.fr [3/2005; wrote a thesus on, Clark Terry (Clark Terry à l’école des grands orchestres); and wrote her PhD at Sorbonne University about "Le rôle et la place de Charles Delaunay (1911-1988) dans l’histoire du jazz en France]
George Lewis • Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, Department of Music, Columbia University, 615 Dodge Hall, MC 1813, New York, NY 10027, USA, Tel. (212) 854-5837, Fax (212) 854-8191, Mobil-Tel. (619) 985-6226, e-mail: gl2140@columbia.edu; Internet: http://www.ucsd.edu/music/lewis.html [3/2005; trombonist and researcher, professor of music, critical studies/experimental practices area; currently works on a book about history and development of AACM]
Bo Lindström • S 192 71 Sollentuna, Sweden, Tel. ++46 (8) 626-8066, e-mail: bolm@telia.com [3/2009: major publications: "Traveling Blues, The Life and Music of Tommy Ladnier", with Dan Vernhettes, to be published in 2009; general research interest: All jazz up to 1980, genealogical studies in early jazz; current research: book on Tommy Ladnier, discography]
Jean-Pierre Lion • c/o SEF, 110 Bd. Denis Papin, F-53000 Laval, France, Tel. ++33 (0)2 43.53.36.48, Fax 33 (0)2 43.67.11.78, e-mail: jp.lion@sef-france.com [4/2006; major publications: “BIX, Bix Beiderbecke, une biographie”, Outre Mesure, Paris (2004); “BIX, the Definitive Biography of a Jazz Legend”, Continuum, New York (2005); general research interest: early jazz; current research: origins of New Orleans jazz]
Jan Lohmann • Nygaardsvej 16, DK-3520 Farum, Denmark, Tel. ++45 (4495) 4343, Fax (at work) ++45 (4477) 4736, e-mail: Jan-Lohmann@get2net.dk, Internet: http://www.Jan-Lohmann.com [12/2001; author of "The Sound of Miles Davis. The Discography 1945-1991", currently works on an update of this book; seeking dates of Miles Davis concerts even if they are not documented on record or tape]
Rainer E. Lotz • Jean Paul Strasse 6, 53173 Bonn, Germany, Tel. ++49 (228) 352808, Fax ++49 (228) 365142, e-mail: rainer-lotz@gmx.de, Internet: http.//www.lotz-verlag.de [major publications: In addition to LP and CD productions - about 150 scholarly essays and about 80 monographs, including: "Grammophonplatten aus der Ragtime-Ära" (Dortmund: Harenberg, 1979); "German Ragtime And Prehistory Of Jazz - Volume 1: The Sound Documents" (London: Storyville, 1985); with Ulrich Neuert: "The AFRS Jubilee Show - A Discography, Volumes 1 & 2" (Frankfurt/Main: Ruecker, 1985); "Mike Danzi: The Story of An American Musician In Berlin, 1925 - 1939, As Told To Rainer E. Lotz" (Schmitten: Ruecker, 1986); with Ian Pegg: "Under The Imperial Carpet - Essays in Black History" (Crawley: Rabbit Press, 1987); "Die deutsche National-Discographie" (Bonn: Birgit Lotz Verlag, 1989-to date); with Uli Heier: "The Banjo On Record. A Bio-Discography" (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993); with Horst Bergmeier: "Hitler's Airwaves. The Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting and Propaganda Swing" (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1997, with CD); "Black People. Entertainers of African Descent in Europe and Germany" (Bonn: Birgit Lotz Verlag, 1997; with CD); with Horst Bergmeier: "Hallo 1930 - Die Kult-Megabox" (Bergisch Gladbach: Carlton, 1998, with CDs); "Vox Label Listing" (Bonn, 2000; http://www.lotz-verlag.de/Online-Discographies.html ); general research interest: history of jazz OUTSIDE the USA; minstrelsy and pre-history of jazz; African-American performers in turn-of-the-century Europe; Hot Dance in Germany; current research projects: African-American performers in turn-of-the-century Europe; Hot Dance in GermanyAfrican-American performers in turn-of-the-century Europe; Hot Dance in Germany]
Tom Lord • 1540 Taylor Way, West Vancouver, B.C., V7S 1N4, Canada, Tel. ++1 (604) 926-9953, Fax ++1 (604) 926-9822, e-mail: lordmusic@home.com, Internet: http://www.lordisco.com [12/99; author of "The Jazz Discography"]
Jeff Lovell • 500 Adams Lane apt. 7-T, North Brunswick, NJ 08902, USA, Tel. ++1 (732) 398-3715, e-mail: jefelito@yahoo.com [2/2002; graduate student at Jazz History & Research Program, Rutgers University, Newark; currently works on Masters' thesis on Joe Henderson, with particular emphasis on his recording days with Blue Note (1963-1967)]
Michel Macaire • 24 Allee de Venise, F-37200 Tours, France, Tel. ++33 (2) 4728-0790, e-mail: michelmacaire@hotmail.com [5/2007; general research interest: Ella Fitzgerald; projects: work on a chronological (day by day) listing of Ella's career including recording sessions, live performances on radio, TV and concerts]
Timothy R. Mangin • 121 West 122nd #2F, New York, NY 10027, USA, Tel. ++1 (212) 678-6095, e-mail: trm8@columbia.edu [3/2002; general research interest: Jazz, Acid Jazz, African Jazz; current research projects: Senegalese Jazz, Jam Sessions]
Francesco Martinelli • Lungarno Mediceo 10, I-56127 Pisa, Italy, e-mail: fmartinelli@tin.it [10/99; Italian musicologist, responsible for the Siena Jazz Archives which makes available research about Italian jazz/jazz in Italy; author of a discography of the music of Evan Parker; currently works on an update of his discographies of Evan Parker and Anthony Braxton and seeks any information, press stories or live recordings of the above musicians]
Hélder Bruno Martins • Rua Mário Mariano, 3200-205 Lousã, Portugal, e-mail: helderbmartins@hotmail.com [6/2003; musicologist; main research interest: musical analysis, jazz history, sociology of jazz, theory and aesthetics; currently works at his masters thesis at Coimbra University about jazz in Portugal in the 1940s and 1950s]
Vincenzo Martorella • Corso Lazio 8, I- 03100 Frosinone, Italy, Tel. ++39 (0347) 143-6525; e-mail: vicmart@usa.net [2/2000; Italian musicologist, author of “History of Fusion Music (Castelvecchi, 1998, in Italian), artistic director of Atina Jazz Festival, co-director of Jazz People book series, jazz history teacher; currently works on a book about Miles Davis, from the beginning to 1960]
Mathias Maschat • Berlin, Germany; e-mail: mathiasmaschat@web.de [12/2009; wrote diploma thesis on free improvised music, musicians' cooperatives and public subsidy; currently working on doctoral thesis on historical and performative aspects of improvised music]
Jørgen Mathiasen • Parchimer Straße 20 (EG R), 12619 Berlin, Tel. (030) 5604-4898, e-mail: j.mathiasen@t-online.de, Internet: http://roundaboutjazz.de [9/2006; radio producer, reviewer, musicologist. Has published an index to Duke Ellington's "Music is My Mistress". Currently works on a survey of the work of Duke Ellington; also works at a discography about Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen which can be accessed through his website]
Jack McCray • c/o Post and Courier, 134 Columbus St., Charleston, SC 29403, USA, Tel. ++1 (843) 937-5519, Fax ++1 (843) 937-5579, e-mail: jmccray@postandcourier.com, Internet: http://www.charlestonjazz.net [7/2003; general research interest: jazz players born in South Carolina; current research projects: Charleston Jazz Initiative; other remarks: "My partner in the project is Dr. Karen Chandler, director of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture in Charleston"]
Bill McDonough • 9 Harrison Avenue, Beverly MA 01915-3511, USA, Tel. (978) 921-1413, Fax (978) 922-9058, e-mail: bill@ideaguyshome.com, Internet: http://www.ideaguyshome.com (unrelated to jazz) [2/2001; Monthly "Radioactive" column in magazine "Jazziz"; general research interest in history of radio; currently works on a master's thesis on the role of radio broadcasting in jazz]
Tony McGregor • Postnet Suite 79, Private Bag X927, Pretoria, South Africa, 0001, Tel. ++27 (82) 888-2602 or ++27 (12) 310-8945, Fax ++27 (12) 310-6927, e-mail: tonym@statssa.gov.za [5/2006; general research interest: South African jazz; current research projects: The impact of The Blue Notes and the Brotherhood of Breath on European jazz/improvised music]
Paul McIntyre • 3 Turasmore Park, Derry City, N.Ireland Bt48 0ff, Tel. (0044)0777 961 5738, e-mail: mcintyremusic@hotmail.com [03/2007, general research interest: jazz performance: mainstream/hardbop (piano styles and analysis), current research: PhD in jazz piano performance- development of my own style, projects: analysis of Wynton Kelly and Bill Evans, Jazz pianist studying for PhD at University of Ulster]
Robert J. McMahon • 400 Mountain Rd., Apt. 3W, Union City, NJ 07087, USA, Tel. (201) 866-8568, e-mail: mcmaho@pegasus.rutgers.edu [1/2003; graduate student in Jazz History + Research Program, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ; currently works on Masters' thesis on Neal Hefti]
Jeff McMillan • 132 D Richfield Terrace, Clifton, NJ 07012, USA, Tel. ++1 (973) 473-8403, e-mail: bluemorg@aol.com [10/99; currently works on master's thesis about Lee Morgan; also does research on Clifford Brown, Fats Navarro and Johnny Dunn]
David Meeker • 59 Stamford Court, London W6 0XD, England, Tel. ++44 (208) 748-7769, e-mail: david@jazzfilm.demon.co.uk [8/2002; major publications: "Jazz in the Movies", "Missing believed lost. The Great British Film Search"; general research interest: the work of jazz musicians for cinema and TV; current research projects: "Jazz on the Screen": computerized database; database on the Library of Congress website]
Michelle Mercer • 119 15th St. Apt. 2D, Brooklyn, NY 11215, USA, Tel. ++1 (718) 499-9710, e-mail: mercer@nyc.rr.com [8/2003; writes regularly for National Public Radio, Village Voice, etc.; momentarily worlking on Wayne Shorter's authorized biography for Penguin Putnam books]
Uli J. Messerschmidt • Dr.v.Dallerstraße 22, 85356 Freising, Tel./Fax (08161) 63837, e-mail: ulrimess@yahoo.de [12/2002; works on his PhD at Graz Music University about bassists recording with the ECM label]
Virgil Mihaiu • Str. Azuga No. 9, Apr. 14, 3400 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; currently, director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Lisbon (Av. Duque d'Avila 45E-3A, 1000-153 Lisboa, Portugal; Tel. 00351 (9) 6153-8824 ), e-mail: vmihaiu@gmail.com; author of "Cutia de Rezonanta" (The Resonance Box; essays on jazz from the perspective of today's culture, Bucharest 1985); "Jazzorelief" (Bucharest 1993); "Jazz Connections in Portugal" (Cluj 2001); "Between the Jazz Age and Postmodernism: F. Scott Fitzgerald" (Timisoara 2003); "Jazz Connections in Romania" (Bucharest 2007); eight volumes of poetry; essays in several international collections of jazz studies; general research interest: development of jazz in extra-American environments]
Franco Minganti • Via del Monte 13, I-40026 Imola, Italy, Tel. ++39 (0542) 41690, e-mail: minganti@lingue.unibo.it [3/2000; literary critic; researches relationships between jazz and literature]
Raymond F. Mitchell • 71 Combe Road, Farncombe, Goldalming Surrey GU7 3SL, England, Tel. ++44 (1483) 417194 [8/2000; currently works on discography of Eddie Lang]
Bob Mohr • P.O. Box 142, Manhattan, KS 66505-0142, USA, Tel. ++1 (785) 776-7081, e-mail: bcmohr@interkan.net [8/2000; currently works on a bio-discography about Joe Venuti]
Kenneth Morrison • 23-3306 Findlay Street, Vancouver, BC, V5N 4E7, Canada, Tel. ++1 (604) 709-4333, e-mail: kenuck@alumni.washington.edu [5/2002; musicologist; wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on "A Polymetric Interpretation of the Swing Impulse: Rhythmic Stratification in Jazz" (University of Washington, 1999); general research interest: jazz rhythm, drumming]
Arne Neegard • Loeshagaveien 59, N-1450 Nesoddtangen, Norway, Tel. ++47(6) 691-4933, e-mail: aneegaar@online.no [7/2006; musicologist, contributor to the DEMS bulletin, currently research on the early influences on Duke Ellington]
Stuart Nicholson • Fir Tree Cottage, Woodlands St. Mary, Berkshire RG17 7SL, England; ph/Fax ++44 (1488) 73527, e-mail: stuartnicholson@tinyonline.co.uk [12/99; author of books about Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday, Duke Ellington, jazz-rock]
Mikko Nurmi • Niemikatu 1 A 13, 33230 Tampere, Finland, e-mail: mikko.nurmi.mail@gmail.com [6/2008; general research interest: improvisation, bass books, composing, psychology of music; current reseach: a book about Paul Chambers's musical style to be published soon; bass books of Ron Carter and groove/reggae bass, in progress; improvisation method book, in progress]
Dave Oliphant • Office of the Provost, Main 201, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA, Fax ++1 (512) 232-7580 [8/2000; author of a book on jazz in Texas]
Berndt Ostendorf • Amerika-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Schellingstraße 3, 80799 München, Germany, Tel. ++49 (0)89 542-8522, e-mail: b.ostendorf@lrz.uni-muenchen.de [2/2010; Professor for American Studies at Munich University, author of numerous publications on jazz and American music culture; board of editors member of Popular Music]
Marko Paysan • Im Tale 4, 20251 Hamburg, Tel. (040) 4677-5722; or: Gertrudenweg 6, 30827 Garbsen, Tel. (05131) 95975, Fax (05131) 463207, e-mail: marko.paysan@gmx.de [2/2003; many publications about jazz and swing music in Germany and Europe between 1920 and 1950; film and musical film 1925-1950; everyday culture and youth culture during the Weimar Republic, Third Reich and post war years; specialist for musicians' and bandleaders' biographies of German entertainment, dance and jazz music (big bands) of the 1930s and 1940s]
Tom Perchard • e-mail: tomperchard@hotmail.com, Internet: http://www.tomperchard.com [1/2007; Biographer of Lee Morgan (book published by Equinox, London, 2006). Extracts of this and other works at his website]
Hans Pehl • Am Forum 51, 60439 Frankfurt, Tel. (069) 573731, e-mail: pehl@bibl.fh-frankfurt.de [10/2002; works on African-American musicians, singers, and dancers in Germany during the times of the Weimar Republic; Fisk Jubilee Singers]
Henner Pfau • Annette-Kolb-Straße 9, 51373 Leverkusen, Tel. (0214) 402519, Fax (0214) 840-5446, e-mail: schellackplattenexpress@gmx.de, Internet: http://www.schellackplattenexpress.de [8/2001; author of "Lexikon der deutschen Tanzmusik" (5 volumes so far); specializes in early German jazz and dance music]
Martin Pfleiderer • Christoph-Probst-Weg 8, 20251 Hamburg, Tel. (040) 4319-7779; or: c/o Musikwissenschaftliches Institut der Universität Hamburg, Neue Rabenstraße 13, 20354 Hamburg, Tel. ++49 (40) 42838-5786, Fax ++49 (40) 42838-5669, e-mail: Martin.Pfleiderer@uni-hamburg.de [9/2006; German musicologist, wrote his PhD thesis (published as a German language book) on projects fusing jazz and world music with a special view on Don Cherry]
Marcello Piras • Calle Tercera Central 607, Colonia Centro, Puebla, Pue. 72000, Mexico, Tel. ++52 (222) 232-4920, Mobil-Tel. ++521 (222 ) 157-8121, e-mail: piras57@gmail.com [8/2007; author of books and many essays about all aspects of Black music and jazz; currently works on a catalog of Duke Ellington's compositions as well as on a scholarly edition of Louis Moreau Gottschalk's piano solo music]
Lewis Porter • 86 Birch Street, Port Chester, NY 10573, USA, Tel./Fax (914) 690-1022; or: Prof.Lewis Porter, Bradley Hall 254, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA, e-mail: Lrpjazz@gmail.com, e-mail: lporter@andromeda.rutgers.edu [8/2005; author of books on Lester Young, John Coltrane and a comprehensive general jazz history]
Frank Powers • 362 Amazon Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA, Tel. ++1 (513) 861-5924, e-mail: fpowers@cinci.infi.net [4/2000; currently works on book about jazz in Cincinnati and Southwestern Ohio, 1900-1959]
Brian Priestley • 31 Northwood Avenue, Purley, Surrey CR8 2ER, England, e-mail: brianpriestley1@eircom.net [6/2006; wrote an extensive study on Charles Mingus; publishes regularly in British and American scholarly and non-scholarly journals]
Peter Pullman • 242 Greene Avenue, #4-C, Brooklyn, NY 11238-1303, USA, Tel. (718) 832-7441, e-mail: peterpullman@hotmail.com [10/2007; general research interest in all classic jazz (through the Sxities) and all classic film (through the Sixties), including documentaries (to the present); current research projects: bebop and Bud Powell Powell (nearly finished), NYC; Bud Powell's role in early bebop (1940-45), and Bud Powell in Paris, 1959-64. Also, an unrelated project: The great European filmmakers who spent time in Hollywood (particularly the Tourneurs); biography of filmmaker Anthony Mann]
Gerhard Putschögl • Adlerstraße 22, 74906 Bad Rappenau, e-mail: putsch7@web.de [6/2010; German musicologist and jazz violinist, author of "John Coltrane und die afro-amerikanische OralKultur", teaches at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. Main topics of research are the History of Jazz and African-American music, World music and Flamenco]
Lars Rasmussen • Skindergade 23, DK-1159 Copenhagen K, Denmark, Tel. ++45 (33) 12 06 69, Fax ++45 (33) 12 04 98, e-mail booktrad@post8.tele.dk [3/2000; author of a book about Abdullah Ibrahim, currently works on a book about the bassist Johnny Dyani]
Michael Rauhut • Grosse Seestraße 7, 13086 Berlin, Germany, Tel./Fax ++49 (30) 927-1794, e-mail: michael.rauhut@rz.hu-berlin.de, Internet: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/fpm [3/2005; major publications: "Beat in der Grauzone. DDR-Rock 1964 bis 1972. Politik und Alltag" (1993); "Schalmei und Lederjacke. Udo Lindenberg, BAP, Underground. Rock und Politik in den achtziger Jahren" (1996); with Birgit Rauhut: "Amiga. Die Diskographie der Rock- und Pop-Produktionen 1964 bis 1990" (1999); editor of "Peitsche Osten Liebe. Das Freygang-Buch" (2000); "Rock in der DDR 1964 bis 1989" (2002); editor with Thomas Kochan: "Bye bye, Lübben City. Bluesfreaks, Tramps und Hippies in der DDR" (2004); general research interest: Popular Music in History and Theory; current research: Broadcasting Popular Music in Germany; The Perception of African-American Music in Germany from its Beginning to the Present; Where Jazz Meets Rock; Youth Culture and Popular Music; research projects: The Perception of Blues in Germany]
Paul Rinzler • Music Dept., Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, USA, Tel. ++1 (805) 756-5792, Fax ++1 (805) 756-7464, e-mail: prinzler@calpoly.edu, Internet: http://www.calpoly.edu/~mu/rinzler_p.html [8/2001; author of "Jazz Arranging and Performance Practice" (Scarecrow Press, 1989), "McCoy Tyner: style and syntax" (Annual Review of Jazz Studies, vol. 2, 1983), "Active Listening" (audio CD, Sea Breeze Jazz 3039, 2000); general research interest: jazz, jazz piano, jazz improvisation, jazz theory; current research projects: The Quartal and Pentatonic Harmony of McCoy Tyner, Annual Review of Jazz Studies (in press); Quartal Jazz Piano Voicings, Hal Leonard Corp (in press)
Terry Ripmaster • 125 Deer Park Road, Hackettstown, NJ 07840, USA, Tel. ++1 (908) 813-2468, e-mail: Tripma3036@aol.com [9/99; author of a book about Bucky Pizzarelli, currently works on a biography of Willis Conover]
Michel Ruppli • 61 Cours Taulignan, F-84110 Vaison La Romaine, France, Tel. ++33 (4) 9036-1392, e-mail: rupplimi@club-internet.fr [11/2001; author of some of the most valuable label discographies on the Decca/Mercury/Verve/Atlantic/Chess/King/Blue Note/Imperial labels (published with Greenwood Press, USA) and of Swing/Blue Star-Barclay/Vogue/Black and Blue labels (published by AFAS France); general research interest: discographies of recording labels; currently works on discographies of Capitol & ABC Paramount labels. Remarks: interested in knowing about libraries having material of interest for that kind of research, such as files of recording labels, catalogues etc.]
Howard Rye • 20 Coppermill Lane, London, E17 7HB, England, Tel. ++44 (20) 8521-1098, Fax ++44 (20) 8521-1098, e-mail: howard@coppermill.demon.co.uk [4/2001; author of "Blues & Gospel Records 1890-1943" (4th ed. Oxford, 1997); "Fats In Fact: The Reissues" (Chigwell, 1993); "Collectors Items" (69 issues, 1980-1995); "Visiting Firemen" series in "Storyville" magazine and subsequent "Storyville" volumes; regular discographical articles in "Names & Numbers"; "The Half Ain't Been Told, An Otis Spann Discography" (revision with Chris Smith of work by Bill Rowe); contributor and assistant editor of the "New Grove Dictionary of Jazz" co-editor of "Names & Numbers"; general research interest: African-American traditional jazz, swing, blues, rhythm & blues, soul jazz; current research projects: ongoing research into African-American musical visitors to Britain and elsewhere in Europe, principally up to 1950 and including the "pre-jazz" era; biographical and discographical research into musicians of African-Caribbean and African ancestry who played jazz in Europe; maintaining the data base for Blues & Gospel Records 1890-1943 and other discographical projects]
Frédéric Saffar • 72, rue Myrha, 75018 Paris, France, Tel. ++33 (1) 4255-7071, e-mail: frederic.saffar@noos.fr [11/2006; general research interest: George Russell ]
Monika Sailer • Bahnhofstrasse 3/10, A-1140 Wien, Austria, e-mail: monika.sailer@uibk.ac.at [8/2000; wrote her MA thesis on "Jazz und Faschismus", the reception of jazz in Europe and the writings of Boris Vian]
Dieter Salemann • Letteallee 80, 13409 Berlin, Germany [11/2000; author of several discographies, the latest about Page Cavanaugh]
Ed Sarath • School of Music, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105-4085, USA, Tel. ++1 (734) 995-0239, Fax ++1 (734) 763-5097, e-mail: sarahara@umich.edu, Internet: http://www.umich.edu/~sarahara [8/2001; author of "A New Look at Improvisation", Journal of Music Theory, 1996, 40/1; general research interest: Consciousness and transcendent states in improvisation process, Relationship to cognitive processes in improvisation; Temporal perception; Creative development (overall); Pedagogical strategies for improvisation; current research projects: A Philosophy of Jazz Education: Creativity, Consciousness and the Contemporary Musical Landscape.]
Marc Sarazy • 4 Mail de la Demin-Lune, F-94500 Champigny, Marne, France [1/2000; author of a book about Joachim Kühn]
Steinar Saetre • Vaakleiva 33, N-5155 Boenes, Norway, Tel. ++47 (5558) 6977(office), Tel. ++47 (5512) 3908 (home), e-mail: Steinar.Satre@grieg.uib.no, Internet: http://www.hf.uib.no/i/griaka/ansatte/ssa [6/2001: currently works on a project related to institutionalized and non-institutionalized learning practices in jazz. Research interest also includes early jazz]
Ursel Schlicht • 310 Clermont Avenue, Apt. #3, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA, Tel. ++1(718) 243-2174, e-mail: ursel@urselschlicht.com, Internet: http://www.urselschlicht.com [5/2007; pianist and researcher; wrote her PhD on "Frauen im Jazz" (women in jazz)]
Wolf Schmaler • Wilhelmsteich 11, D-66564 Ottweiler, Germany, Tel./Fax (06824) 701932, e-mail: otti-cats@t-online.de [12/2001; general research interest: John Coltrane discography; current research projects: update of Fujioka's Coltrane discography in collaboration with Fuji, David Wild, Michel Delorme and others]
Loren Schoenberg • e-mail: lorenschoenberg@mindspring.com [8/2000; musician and expert on bigband jazz and swing]
Koen Schouten • Kramatweg 93 III, NL-1095 KD Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Tel. ++31 (20) 682-1209, Fax ++31 (20) 772-7957, e-mail: koenschouten@compaqnet.nl [5/2006; musicologist and jazz-journalist for Dutch daily newspaper "Het Parool"; major publications: interviews with Misha Mengelberg, Willem Breuker, Sean Bergin, Yuri Honing, Lee Konitz, Maarten Ornstein, Jackie McLean...; general research interest: (European) improvised music; current research projects: Improvisation-techniques in the Instant Composers Pool (ICP)]
Tim Schroer • c/o History Department, University of West Georgia, 1601 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30135, USA, Tel. ++1 (678) 839-6040, e-mail: tschroer@westga.edu [4/2005; historian; works on his PhD thesis about how changing ideas about race shaped the postwar German reception of jazz and spirituals in the years from 1945 to 1949]
George Schuller • 424 Caton Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11218, USA, e-mail: schulldog@pipeline.com, Internet: http://www.pipeline.com/~zero2b/ [7/2004; currently co-producer of a non-profit film documentary on the Music Inn, Lenox, MA (1950 - 60), Ben Barenholtz Productions c/o Projectile Arts, Inc/Music Inn, 239 East 32nd St., New York, NY 10016. Also current research on The Lenox School of Jazz Recordings (1958-60) to be released on GM Recordings in the fall of 2005. "We are seeking any film footage, photographs, recordings, former students, performers, or visitors, European press, letters, or souveniers from the Music Inn years between 1950-60. If you have any memories you'd like to share, please contact us by e-mail"]
Marc-Oliver Schuster • Turmstraße 76, 10551 Berlin, Germany, Tel. ++49 (30) 3974-5581, e-mail: marc.schuster@utoronto.ca, e-mail: schuster@chass.utoronto.ca [11/2006; general research interest: German-language literature, literature and music, aesthetics, theoretical semiotics; current research on Jazz in German-language Literature; projects: monograph, articles and collection of articles (with Kirsten Krick-Aigner) on "Jazz in German-language Literature"; future project (planned): Jazz in European Literatures]
Katja von Schuttenbach [formerly: Katja 'Kate' Kaiser] • 10401 Grosvenor Place, North Bethesda, MD 20852, USA, skype: katjams1, e-mail: katja@vonschuttenbach.com, Internet: http://www.vonschuttenbach.com; major publications: feature articles for http://www.vonschuttenbach.com/bio.htm [3/2010; general research interest: European Jazz; research focus: pianist Jutta Hipp and her circles in Germany and the United States; other projects: collecting information about "jazz as cultural property of the United States" and the monetary and cultural values that the public, government and collectors of jazz-related items place on such property (e.g. at public auctions of jazz items versus display of jazz artifacts in museums, public collections etc.) Past lectures at the Library of Congress and The Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC) and the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University (Newark, New Jersey)]
Jürgen Schwab • Wilhelm-Thoerle-Straße 24, 63456 Hanau, Tel./Fax (06181) 650281, e-mail: mail@juergenschwab.de [4/2004; German musicologist; wrote his PhD thesis (published as a German language book) on guitarists in Jazz from the beginnings up to Wes Montgomery, recently researched on the Frankfurt Jazz History; author of the book: "Der Frankfurt Sound - Eine Stadt und ihre Jazzgeschichte(n)", published in June, 2004]
Julia Scott • 47 Mercer St. #5B, Jersey City, NJ USA 07302, Tel. ++1 (201) 536-0020, e-mail: juliamariescott@hotmail.com [2/2002; graduate student at Jazz History & Research Program, Rutgers University, Newark; currently works on Masters' thesis on the phenomenon and controversy of Wynton Marsalis and Jazz @ Lincoln Center]
Chris Sheridan • 61 Little Gaddesden, Berkhamsted, Herst HP4 1PL, England, Tel. ++44 (1442) 842562, e-mail: sheri.jazz@virgin.net [11/2004; author of bio-discographies on Count Basie, Cannonball Adderley, Thelonious Monk; currently works on bio-discography of Milt Jackson and the Modern Jazz Quartet as well as on a book on Dizzy Gillespie]
Alyn Shipton • c/o Bayou Press Ltd, 117 High Street, Wheatley, Oxford, OX33 1UE, United Kingdom. Tel. ++44 (1865) 874953, e-mail: info@alynshipton.co.uk, Internet: http://www.alynshipton.co.uk [4/2008 Author of biographies of: Fats Waller, Bud Powell, Dizzy Gillespie, Ian Carr. Oral historian, editor of lives of Danny Barker, Doc Cheatham and George Shearing. Broadcaster for BBC of interviews with many major jazz figures. Current projects: a biography of Jimmy McHugh (due out 2009) and a life of Cab Calloway]
Vladimir Simosko • Music Library, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada, Tel. ++1 (201) 474-6845 (voicemail), Fax ++1 (201) 474-7543, e-mail: simosko@cc.UManitoba.CA [3/2001; author of bio-discographies about Eric Dolphy, Serge Chaloff, Artie Shaw; also author of liner notes and many articles & reviews over the last 3 decades; general research interest: jazz, ethnomusicology; current research projects: jazz, ethnomusicology (for a forthcoming book discussing jazz from a world-music perspective). Also active as a musician and in cross-cultural collaborations]
Dan Skea • 2794 Phoenix Street, Las Vegas, NV 89121, USA, Tel. ++1 (702) 431-4137, e-mail: DRS88@aol.com [4/2000; currently works on a book about recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder]
Matt Snyder • 31-65 29th Street, #F3 Astoria, NY 11106, USA, Tel. ++1 (718) 777-5355, e-mail: msnyder@alumni.indiana.edu, Internet: http://users.bestweb.net/~msnyder/ [12/2003; Currently works toward a masters degree in library and information at Queens College in New York City. Works as a curatorial assistant at the Louis Armstrong Archives. His master's thesis (in progress) is on jazz discography past, present and future]
Austin Sonnier • 1119 West Gilman Road, Lafayette, LA 70501, USA [10/99; author of books about the blues and about music in Louisiana; currently works on a study about New Orleans traditional jazz violin players]
Bruno Spoerri • Freiestrasse 172, CH-8032 Zürich, Switzerland, Tel. ++41 (44) 420-1542, Fax ++41 (44) 420-1543, e-mail: bruno@computerjazz.ch, Internet: http://www.computerjazz.ch [9/2004; general research interest: Swiss Jazz, jazz and electronics; author of a book on "Jazz in Switzerland"]
Frithjof Strauß • c/o Nordisches Institut der Universität Greifswald, Hans-Fallada-Straße 20, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany, Tel ++49 (3834) 863608, Fax, ++49 (3834) 863606, e-mail: straussf@uni-greifswald.de [2/2005; wrote dissertation "Soundsinn. Jazzdiskurse in den skandinavischen Literaturen" Freiburg/Breisgau: Rombach 2003); co-editor of "Skriva om jazz - skriva som jazz" (Lund: Absalon 2001), general research in jazz semiotics and scandinavian jazz culture]
Richard Sudhalter • P.O. Box 757, Southold, NY 11971, USA, Fax: (516) 765-3606, Tel. ++1 (516) 765-3173, e-mail: rms@panix.com [10/99; currently works on a biography about Hoagy Carmichael]
Charles Suhor • 3566 Audubon Rd, Montgomery, AL 36111, USA, Tel. ++1 (334) 284-5683, Fax ++1 (334) 280-4758, e-mail: csuhor@zebra.net, Internet: http://home.earthlink.net/~ekdaufin [6/2001; author of "Jazz in New Orleans: The Postwar Years" (Scarecrow Press, Studies in Jazz series, 2001); regular articles in Down Beat, Jazz Archivist, Jazz Educators Journal, IAJE Research Paper annuals; general research interest: Jazz history, especially N.O. from 1946-1970; relationships between jazz improvisation and everyday language; jazz and poetry; jazz styles, genres; current research projects: a brief history of the backbeat; early jazz -- hot, sweet, cool, amd corny; breakthrough recordings of the 1920s; jazz anecdotes, New Orleans --1946-1970; (other remarks...): I'd appreciate any comments on my current book, "Jazz in New Orleans. The Postwar Years" (see http://www.scarecrowpress.com) as well as other areas of shared interest]
Allan James Sutherland • 1357-6 Naka, Tamana City, Kumamoto Ken 865-0064, Japan, Tel./Fax ++81 (968) 751262 (Home), Tel./Fax ++81 (968) 751846 (office), e-mail: ayac@sannet.ne.jp, Internet: http://www.kyushu-ns.ac.jp/~allan/Frames/Frameset.html [10/2002; research interest: jazz and improvisation, jazz sociology, jazz aesthetics, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Charlie Parker]
Jay Sweet • 23 Branch Brook Dr., Belleville, NJ 07109, USA, Tel. ++1 (973) 751-9345, e-mail: sweetjbs@aol.com [1/2001; currently works on a biographical thesis on bassist Ray Brown; particularly interested in Brown's musical career before Dizzy Gillespie, his work with Oscar Peterson, his work as a leader, his accomplishments as a composer, arranger and as a jazz cellist. Also works on a full discography of Ray Brown's work as a leader and a comprehensive discography of his work as a sideman]
Martina Taubenberger • Hessenweg 12/1, 89522 Heppenheim, Germany, Tel. (07321) 271948, e-mail: martina.taubenberger@gmx.net [10/2009; works on her PhD thesis about "The Sound of Democracy – The Sound of Freedom. Jazz in Deutschland nach 1945. Metaphorische Implikationen des Jazz und sein Einfluss auf die Entwicklung eines neuen politischen, kulturellen und nationalen Selbstverständnisses der jungen deutschen Nachkriegsgeneration"; wrote an MA thesis on "Die Intermedialität der Jazz Poetry"; general research interest: women in jazz, jazz and literature, comparison of jazz reception in Germany and the US]
Stephen Taylor • Tai Ping Towers, 582/194 Ekamai Road, Sukhumvit 63, Bangkok 10110, Thailand, Tel. (662) 381-6621, Fax (662) 711-6488 (prior notice required), e-mail: bluebird78rpm@taiping.org, Internet: http://www.fats-waller.com [9/2006; published "Fats Waller on the Air. The Radio Broadcasts and Discography" (Scarecrow press, 2006). Owner of a very extensive Fats Waller collection, and happy to answer Fats Waller queries, or correspond with others with a similar interest]
Sherrie Tucker • Asst. Professor, American Studies, University of Kansas, Wescoe 2120, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045-7590, USA, Tel. (785) 864-2305, Fax (785) 864-5742, e-mail: SherrieTu@aol.com [1/2002; major publications: "Swing Shift: 'All-girl' Band of the 40s" (Duke University Press, 2000); current research projects: gender analysis in jazz studies, women in jazz, jazz historiography, the use of swing era nostalgia to mobilize Americas for national love and war]
Tad Turner • 72 Hickory Hill Lane, Tappan, NY 10983, USA; Tel. ++1 (845) 398-0987, e-mail: tad@propheticdesire.com [1/2003; currently at Rutgers University, researching for a thesis on Carla Bley, her composition "A Genuine Tong Funeral" and its intended theatrical staging; additional research interests in the intersection of Jazz and electronic/computer music idioms]
Michael Ullman • 136 Woodward Street, Newton, MA 02461, USA, Tel. ++1 (617) 964-6994, Fax ++1 (617) 964-7771, e-mail: mullman@tufts.edu [12/2000; author of several jazz books, co-author of "Jazz. From Its Origins to the Present"]
Jerry Valburn • 2077 Berkshire "E", Deerfield Beach, FL 33442-3361, USA, Tel./Fax ++1 (954) 427-1897, e-mail: jvalburn@vtechworld.com [11/2000; expert on Duke Ellington, author of Ellington discography]
Walter van de Leur • Klaasstraat 62, NL-5911 JR Venlo, Netherlands, Tel. ++31 (77) 354-4756, Fax ++31 (77) 324-0709, e-mail: Wvandeleur@wxs.nl [5/2002; Dutch musicologist; author of "Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn" (his Ph.D. thesis); editor and founder of Billy Strayhorn Manuscript Editions; educator at the Conservatory of Amsterdam; co-artistic leader of the Dutch Jazz Orchestra (4-CD edition "The Dutch Jazz Orchestra Plays the Music of Billy Strayhorn"); general research interest: orchestral jazz; jazz and composition, current research projects: Duke Ellington; Billy Strayhorn; Mary Lou Williams; Gil Evans; Gerry Mulligan; Claude Thornhill; Boyd Raeburn; Cool Jazz]
Erik van den Berg • Langestraat 64', NL-1015 AM Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Tel. ++31 (20) 625-7625, e-mail: bergvd@worldonline.nl [5/2006; editor of 'Jazzjaarboek' 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (1983-1988, Van Gennep publishers, Amsterdam); contributions to 'The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz', second edition (2002); editor of the 'Jazz Bulletin' - quarterly magazine of the Nederlands Jazz Archief / Dutch Jazz Archives (www.jazzarchief.nl); general research interest: History of Dutch/European jazz and improvised music; current research projects: biography of drummer Han Bennink]
Dan Vernhettes • 45, rue Roger Buessard, 94200 Ivry sur Seine, France, Tel. 0033 (1) 4670-2401, e-mail: d-vernhettes@club-internet.fr [3/2009; major publications: "Traveling Blues" (to be published in 2009), biography of Tommy Ladnier, with Bo Lindström; general research interest: proto jazz (specially in Louisiana), jazz pioneers in Louisiana, St. Louis musicians; current research: early jazzmen; projects: Jazz Puzzles(pioneers portraits), Riverboat Jazzmen (Fate Marable, Dewey Jackson, Charlie Creath, Sid Desvignes, Davy Jones....]
Ove Volquartz • Schillerstraße 18, 37083 Göttingen, Tel. (0551) 77735, Fax (0551) 7770-7816, e-mail: Ove.Volquartz@t-online.de [7/2001; German musicologist; wrote his PhD thesis about "Improvisation and Flow Experience" (published in German)]
Bert Vuijsje • Frans van Mierisstraat 116'', NL-1071 SB Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Tel. ++31 (20) 673-3219, e-mail: a.vuijsje@chello.nl, Internet: http://www.bebopbusiness.com [1/2004; author of "De Nieuwe Jazz" (1978); "Jazzportretten" (1983); ongoing columns in magazines "Jazz", "Doctor Jazz", "Bulletin van het Nederlands Jazz Archief" (all The Netherlands), "Jazzmozaïek" (Belgium); general research interest: jazz and its social context and history in the broadest sense; current research: Dutch jazz singer Rita Reys; projects: "The life story of Rita Reys" (book to be published November 2004)
Johannes Wagemann • Sedanstraße 35, 45138 Essen, Germany, Tel. ++49 (201) 873-9645, Fax ++49 (201) 873-9646, e-mail: johannes.wagemann@uni-bielefeld.de [8/2006; general research interest: German jazz reception post-1945; the semantics of jazz; current research: Jazz as a vehicle for images of the U.S. after WW II (M.A. thesis)]
Keith Waters • University of Colorado at Boulder, College of Music, Department of Music Theory and Composition, e-mail: watersk@stripe.colorado.edu [10/99; published several musico-analytical essays about Hancock, Coltrane, Harbison and Booker Little]
Albert Weckert • Defreggerstraße 22, 12435 Berlin, Tel. ++49 (30) 5321-2111, Fax ++49 (30) 5321-3111, e-mail: berlin@jazzfiles.de, Internet: http://www.jazzfiles.de [4/2001; economist, currently working on his disseration about the economic basis of the Berlin jazzscene]
Todd Bryant Weeks • 551 16th Street, #3, Brooklyn, NY 11215, USA, Tel. ++1 (718) 832-0851, e-mail: todweeks@pegasus.rutgers.edu [2/2003; graduate student at Jazz History & Research Program, Rutgers University, Newark; currently works on Masters' thesis on Hot Lips Page]
Uwe Weiler • Lütjenmoor 55, 22850 Norderstedt, Germany, Tel./Fax ++49 (40) 523-6178, e-mail: Uwe.Weiler@t-online.de [8/2002; discographer, compiler and editor of "The Debut Label. A Discography", published in 1994. Special research interest: Recordings of Charles Mingus and the wholly outlet of Debut records. Currently works on a supplement edition of "The Debut Label. A Discography"]
Jason Weiss • 148 Midwood Street, Brooklyn, NY 11225, USA, Tel. ++1 (718) 469-6969, e-mail: jasonweiss@mindspring.com [6/2006; editor of "Steve Lacy: Conversations" (Duke, 2006), "Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader" (Wesleyan, 2001), author of "The Lights of Home: A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris" (Routledge, 2003), "Writing at Risk: interviews in Paris with uncommon writers" (Iowa, 1991); general research interest: jazz & literature; jazz & painting; jazz & traditional music; expatriate jazz; current research: Steve Lacy recorded archives]
Ray Whitehouse • Biographical (Jazz) Research Service, Harbour Lane, Milnrow, Rochdale OL16 4EL, England [4/2006; freelance researcher, offers biographical jazz research]
Silvia Wickenhäuser • Amselweg 8, 85646 Anzing, Germany, e-mail: silvia.wickenhaeuser@freenet.de [7/2003; general research interest: reception of Jazz after WW II; current research project: master's degree thesis on "Amerika und die deutsche Jugend: Reeducation mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von Radio München und AFN München"]
Jos Willems • Heindonksesteenweg 175, B-2830 Wliiebroek, Belgium, Tel. ++32 (3) 886-7365, e-mail: willems.jos@skynet.be [6/2003; works on book "All of Me. The Complete Musical Legacy of Louis Armstrong", a complete listing of the recordings of Armstrong]
Tim Wilkins • 556 17th St. #1, Brooklyn, NY 11215, USA, Tel. ++1 (917) 407-6284, e-mail: jazzage@hotmail.com [5/2007; general research interests: jazz before 1915, black music in South America, Dizzy Gillespie's international travels]
Juergen Woelfer • Diekhoffsweg 20, 33334 Gütersloh, Germany, e-mail: juergen.woelfer@t-online.de [8/2007; pubilcations: discographies of Anita O'Day, Si Zentner and Bob Florence; current research: discographies of Gerald Wilson, Bob Cooper/June Christie, Chico O'Farrill, Nancy Wilson/Julie London; biography of Kay Kyser; "Lexikon Jazz in Deutschland" will sson be published]
Carl Woideck • 4460 Mill Street, Eugene, OR 97405, USA, Tel. (541) 345-0719, Fax (541) 346-0723 (University of Oregon School of Music), e-mail: cwoideck@oregon.uoregon.edu [11/2000; author of "Charlie Parker: His Music and Life" (University of Michigan Press); "The Charlie Parker Companion" (Schirmer Books); "The John Coltrane Companion" (Schirmer Books)]
Knud Wolffram • Waldhüterpfad 29, 14169 Berlin, Tel. (030) 814-1379, Fax (030) 8472-1397, e-mail: info@ppr-berlin.de, Internet: http://www.ppr-berlin.de [3/2006; author of books on early German dance and jazz music from the 1920s and 1930s; producer of CD reissues on his Pumpkin Pie Records]
Mick Wright • SACS, Music, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Armstrong Building, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU , Great Britain, Tel. ++44 (191) 222-6736, e-mail: Michael.Wright2@ncl.ac.uk, Internet: http://www.mickonline.co.uk [3/2004; general research interest: Modern Jazz/ Modern Jazz guitar; current research projects: "Tal Farlow and the American Popular Song"]
Thembinkosi Mthimkhulu Zakwe (MR) • South African College Of Music, University of Cape Town, University Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7700 Cape Town, South Africa, Tel. ++27 (73) 567-7862, Fax ++27 (21) 650-2627, e-mail: zkwthe001@mail.uct.ac.za, e-mail: zakwet@hotmail.com [8/2004; general research interest: South African Jazz In Exile; current research: working on a Bmus(Hon) in Musicology about "South African exile musicians and the influence of their music on the European 'free jazz' scene"]
Fabrice Zammarchi • 2, Parc de la Bérengère, 92 210 Saint-Cloud, France, Tel./Fax: ++ 33 (1) 4771-2823, e-mail: zammarchifabrice@aol.com [1/2001; Major publication : Sidney Bechet, passport to paradise, Filipacchi; major interest : jazz clarinetists; current project : book on preparation about Buddy DeFranco "BeBop Clarinet", 250 pages, about 180 photos, complete discography]
Stefano Zenni • Via G. Deledda 54, I-59100 Prato, Italy, Tel./Fax ++39 (0574) 470719, Mobile-Tel. ++39 (0574) 602-3545, e-mail: stzenni@sidma.it [3/2005; musicologist with special research interests in jazz; currently researches the music of Charles Mingus]
