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About George Starks

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Musician

Dr. George L. Starks Jr., professor emeritus of music, served for 35 years as director of the highly acclaimed Drexel University Jazz Orchestra, Jazzet, and Saxtet. For 20 years, he produced the Jazz Orchestra's celebrated Jazz Extravaganza, an annual event that drew capacity crowds to Drexel's Mandell Theater. An esteemed lecturer, "Doc," as he was fondly called by his students, taught a variety of courses including World Musics, African American Music, Jazz History, Jazz Improvisation, Topics in Jazz, and Introduction to Music.

An ethnomusicologist with a specialty in New World Musics of African origin, he holds B.S

Article: The Art and Science of Jazz

Where in the Brain Does Creativity Come from? Evidence from Jazz Musicians

by AAJ Staff
April 22, 2020

According to a popular view, creativity is a product of the brain's right hemisphere--innovative people are considered “right-brain thinkers" while “left-brain thinkers" are thought to be analytical and logical. Neuroscientists who are skeptical of this idea have argued that there is not enough evidence to support this idea and an ability as complex as human creativity ...