Latest News and Events
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Making the Jazz Gumbo: An International Conference on Repertoires that Influenced and were Influenced by Early Jazz
Marking the 100th Anniversary of the death of James Reese Europe
Presented by the Historic Brass Society, with support from the City University Of New York Graduate Center
May 8, 2019
CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
Jimmy Owens and Bobby Sanabria – Co-Musical Directors
Jeff Nussbaum and John Graziano – Co-Conference Directors
Scholars and Performers to include: Jason Moran, Ehud Asherie, Frederick Starr, Jack Stewart, Michael Dinwiddle, Ned Sublette, Krin Gabbard, Ralph Barrett, Graham Haynes, Paul Niemisto, Thomas Garcia, Laura Moore Pruett + 20 Piece Period-Instrument Band.
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The 2019 Early Brass Festival of the Historic Brass Society (HBS) will be held in conjunction with Vintage Band Festival in Northfield, Minnesota. The Early Brass Festival will take place August 2-4, 2019, primarily at the Weitz Center for Creativity on the campus of Carleton College in Northfield.
In addition to a membership meeting and musical performances by attendees, the HBS gathering will feature more than a dozen scholarly presentations on variety of topics. The complete schedule for the three-day event follows. To register, download the Early Brass Festival registration form.
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Once again the Cambridge Woodwind Makers will be offering summer workshops in which participants get to build their own instruments (cornetto and/or natural trumpet). The Natural Trumpet workshop led by Bob Barclay and Richard Seraphinoff will be held June 24-28, 2019. For more information click here. Sam Goble and Andrew Hallock will lead the Cornetto workshop, held August 26-30, 2019, click here for further information. Participants in either course do not need to have prior experience in metal/woodworking, and you walk away with a playable instrument!
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3/14/2019
The research team project “Our music, our world: Musical associations, wind bands, and local communities (1880-2018)” is pleased to invite submissions of proposals for the International conference Our music, our world: wind bands and local social life, to be held in Aveiro, at the Departamento de Comunicação e Arte da Universidade de Aveiro, from the 10th to 12th of October 2019. The proposal deadline is March 30, 2019. Details on the conference and submission process are available on the conference website: https://anossamusica.web.ua.pt/conferencia.php
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Vic Hobson just did an interview with Jazz on the Tube about his latest book on Louis Armstrong that many members might be interested in (it also mentions our upcoming conference on Jazz in the early 20th century!). https://www.jazzonthetube.com/vic-hobson-and-the-roots-of-louis-armstrongs-music/