Essays on Jazz by Project Scholars

New Orleans and the Origins of Jazz
By Robert OMeally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University

The Jazz Age and Harlem as a Center for Jazz
By Krin Gabbard, Professor of Comparative Literature and English Humanities, State University of New York Stony Brook

The Jazz Vocalists
By Robert OMeally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University

The Swing Era
By Guthrie P. Ramsey, Associate Professor of Music and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

Jazz Innovators: From Bebop, to Hard Bop, to Cool and More
By Guthrie P. Ramsey, Associate Professor of Music and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

Latin Jazz and Jazz as an International Music
By Krin Gabbard, Professor of Comparative Literature and English Humanities, State University of New York Stony Brook