Jazz Articles about Skipp Pearson

Jazz Societies, Part I: The Skipp Pearson Jazz Legacy Foundation

by Karl Ackermann
December 3, 2019

Part 1 | Part 2 The oral history traditions of West African griots led the preservation and interpretation of music that would become the fundamentals of jazz. In previous Under the Radar columns we looked at institutions that further the cause of safeguarding the genre; university-level academic programs and jazz museums whose hands-on experiences, community outreach, teaching and sharing of history, are helping to keep jazz relevant. In the decentralized, smaller, and culturally diverse world of jazz societies, ...