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Rob Wood
Since: 2018 | Position: Contributor | Location: Toledo | Page Views: 20,878 
About Me
Rob Wood imagines he is the accidental, great great grandson of Fats Waller.
I’ve been a reporter, speechwriter, magazine editor, teacher, and riverboat deckhand . . . all honest work. While I was teaching at Xi’ian International Studies University, my Chinese students called me “Grandfather.” Perhaps that captures my musical weltanschauung. I tend to take a long view. I’m interested in the intersection of jazz with art (Portrait in Seven Shades by Ted Nash; Romare Bearden Revealed by Branford Marsalis), jazz with history (The Jazz Age, copyright Museum Music, Inc.) and jazz and politics. These days I produce a jazz program for an Ohio university (WLFC 88.3FM). I tell the kids that Duke Ellington is just as important as Thomas Jefferson.
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This page was last updated on 2023-09-12.
