Jazz scholarship has focused on commercial recordings - as Max Roach was fond of saying, “Records are our textbooks" - yet there is a shadow world beyond these official audio texts - a world of alternate takes, acetates and cassettes of live recordings, radio broadcasts, and club appearances. Fascinating and revealing as these documents are, they are seldom used as the basis for published materials. But with the creation of new and inexpensive technology, mass downloading, the virtual collapse of the recording business, and the flood of unlicensed music on the Web, this alternate universe of music is overwhelming scholars and the public alike. This panel is the first public discussion of this phenomenon and its implications for the future of jazz scholarship and the music itself.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 7:30pm
301 Philosophy Hall, 116th Street and Amsterdam Ave
Columbia University Morningside Campus
Campus Map: columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/philosophy.html
Free and Open to the public
