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Garth Alper

Dr. Garth Alper is the Coordinator of Jazz Studies at the UL Lafayette School of Music, where he holds the Ruth Stodghill Girard Professorship. Dr. Alper teaches in the Jazz Piano, Jazz Studies, and Music Media areas, and has had six articles published on the subjects of jazz, popular music, and postmodernism in music. His article, How the Flexibility of the Twelve-Bar Blues Has Helped Shape the Jazz Language, has been published in The College Music Symposium and numerous articles and reviews have been published in Popular Music and Society. Garth was guest-editor for a special issue of Popular Music and Society, which was devoted entirely to jazz. He has presented thirteen papers at Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association national conferences, and a chapter authored by Dr. Alper, “Jazz Humor from a Musical Perspective” will be published in the forthcoming book, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor.

Spider's Web

By Garth Alper

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Stop-Time Stomp; The Guide; Spider's Web; The News Blues; Mournful; Bop-Wanna-Be; Triplet Tale.

Garth Alper: Spider's Web

by Edward Blanco
March 27, 2023

The Coordinator of Jazz Studies at the University of Louisiana, pianist Dr. Garth Alper presents his fifth album as leader, Spider's Web, offering seven original compositions of straight-ahead material to follow up his well-received Stratus (CD Baby, 2017). A consistently swinging repertoire throughout, the music on this next chapter is as attention-grabbing as that documented on ...

Garth Alper: Spider's Web

by Edward Blanco
March 16, 2023

An original composition by educator and pianist Garth Alper. “Bop-Wanna-Be" is an upbeat bop-filled five-minutes of riveting jazz bringing the swinging saxophone voice of Lucas Munce, bassist Bob Nash and drummer Chris Munson to the fore from the sturdy and animated Spider's Web album sure to resonate with jazz audiences everywhere. The track is a teaser, ...

Stratus

By Garth Alper

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: Out of the Woods; Quackery; Stratus; Celia; Garthbanzo Beans; Catharsis; Ode to Mr. Brubeck; It Could Happen to You; Off Kilter.

Garth Alper: Stratus

by Edward Blanco
August 11, 2017

The fourth album as leader from pianist Garth Alper, Stratus, is a nine-piece musical portrait painted on a canvas of seven original colors and two re-imagined standards designed in the good ol' fashioned straight-ahead tradition. Dr. Alper, coordinator of Jazz Studies at the University of Louisiana (UL) in Lafayette, draws on a handful of faculty members ...