School of Music

Please join us on Thursday, October 25 at 8PM in the USF Music Recital Hall (FAH 101) for an evening of jazz featuring usf student jazz combos. This is a FREE event!

Thu Oct 25, 2007, 8:00 - 10:00 pm

The USF School of Music presents

in partnership with the USF Tampa Library

Please join us on Sunday, October 28 at 4PM in the USF Music Recital Hall (FAH 101) for another installment in our "Looking at Jazz" film & lecture series, featuring Latin Jazz This is a FREE event!

Sun Oct 28, 2007, 4:00 - 6:00 pm

School of Music

Please join us on November 7, at 8PM in the USF Music Recital Hall (FAH101) for an evening of jazz music performed by USF student jazz combos. This is a FREE Event!

Wed Nov 07, 2007, 8:00 - 10:00 pm

School of Music

Please join us on Friday, November 16 at 12 noon in the USF Music Recital Hall (FAH 101) for an afternoon jazz concert featuring the student members of our USF Jazz Combos. This is a FREE Event!

Fri Nov 16, 2007, 12:00 - 2:00 pm

The USF School of Music presents

in partnership with the USF Tampa Library

Please join us on Sunday, November 25 at 4PM in the USF Music Recital Hall (FAH 101) for another installment in our "Looking at Jazz" film & lecture series. Women in Jazz with Vocalist Nnenna Freelon, featuring the music of Billie Holiday, sponsored by the University Lecture Series This is a FREE Event!

Sun Nov 25, 2007, 4:00 - 6:00 pm

The USF School of Music presents

in partnership with the USF Tampa Library

Join us on Sunday, September 23, 2007 at 4PM in the USF Music Recital Hall (FAH 101) for another installment in our ongoing "Looking at Jazz" film & lecture series. The Swing Era featuring the Music of Bennie Goodman. This is a FREE event!

Sun Sep 23, 2007, 4:00 - 6:00 pm

The USF School of Music presents

in partnership with the USF Tampa Library

Keith Waters is associate professor of Music Theory at UC Boulder. He is the author of Rhythmic and Contrapuntal Structures in the Music of Arthur Honegger (Ashgate Press). Together with Henry Martin he is the co-author of Jazz: The First Hundred Years, which was awarded the best first-edition humanities title for 2005 by Thomson Schirmer Publications, and is now in its second edition. He has published articles on topics related jazz improvisation and analysis, and has presented his research at the Sorbonne (Paris), Amsterdam Conservatory (Netherlands), Musikhochschule Winterthur/Zurich (Switzerland), Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel Switzerland), the University of Melbourne (Australia), New England Conservatory of Music, and at national conferences at the Society for Music Theory. He received a Ph.D. in Music Theory from the Eastman School of Music, and a Masters degree in jazz piano from the New England Conservatory of Music. As a jazz pianist, he has performed with James Moody, Eddie Harris, Bobby Hutcherson, Sheila Jordan, and Chris Connor, and has played throughout the United States, Europe, and Russia.

The USF School of Music presents

in partnership with the USF Tampa Library

Would you like to become a jazz connoisseur? Are you interested in learning more about the history of Jazz? Looking at: Jazz film and lecture series explores the development of this uniquely American musical genre. Specially curated films will be presented with discussions led by noted scholars. This is a grant project developed by Renew Media and the National Endowment for the Humanities, in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center and the American Library Association. The University of South Florida Jazz Studies Program in collaboration with the Tampa Library were selected as one of only 50 project pilot sites. Join us as we discover answers to the question – What is Jazz? For more information on the series, visit www.lib.usf.edu.