About the Program Faculty and Staff Admission
Institute of Jazz Studies Students Curriculum

Master's Program in Jazz History and Research
 

Faculty

John Howland (Ph.D., Stanford)
Historian, guitarist, vocalist; dissertation, "Between the Muses and the Masses: Symphonic Jazz, 'Glorified' Entertainment, and the Rise of the American Musical Middlebrow, 1920-1944" (2002); research on jazz and jazz-related arranging traditions, music in modern media, and the connections between American popular culture and jazz.

Henry Martin (Ph.D., Princeton)
Composer, theorist, pianist; author of Enjoying Jazz (1985), Charlie Parker and Thematic Improvisation (1996), many articles; coauthor with Keith Waters of Jazz, the First 100 Years (2002); coeditor of Annual Review of Jazz Studies

Lewis Porter (Ph.D., Brandeis)
Program Director, historian, pianist, author of Lester Young (1985; reprinted 2003), Jazz: From Its Origins to the Present (1992), Jazz: A Century of Change (1997), John Coltrane: His Life and Music (1998), an encyclopedia of contemporary jazz musicians (2004), and many articles; editor of A Lester Young Reader (1991); CD, Second Voyage (Altrisuoni)

Institute of Jazz Studies

Ed Berger
Associate Director, author, record producer; co-author of The Jazz Text (1979), Benny Carter: A Life in American Music (1982; new edition 2002), Reminiscing in Tempo (1990), and author of Basically Speaking: An Oral History of George Dunivier (1993), and many articles

Dan Morgenstern
Director, internationally noted author, historian; former editor of the magazines Down Beat, Metronome, and Jazz; author of Jazz People (1976), and hundreds of articles and liner notes for which he has won many Grammy awards

Vincent Pelote
Sound recording preservation specialist, discographer; author of Billie Holiday and Lionel Hampton discographies and liner notes

Dr. Lewis Porter, Director
M.A. Program in Jazz History and Research
Department of Visual and Performing Arts
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
110 Warren Street
Bradley Hall, Room 254
Newark, NJ 07102-1896
 
Telephone: (973) 353-5600, ext. 30
Fax: (973) 353-1392
Email:    lporter@andromeda.rutgers.edu      email
 

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