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Berklee Global Jazz Institute (Boston): Interdisciplinary Work

Developed in collaboration with Danilo Pérez, founder and artistic director of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, and Marco Pignataro, the Institute’s managing director, this Creativity and Expression in the Arts course explored an interdisciplinary approach to music-making. The central idea was to examine conceptual frameworks and methods in other art disciplines and then use them …

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The Shape of Jazz To Come

From left: Linda May Han Oh, Kris Davis, Terri Lyne Carrington, Aja Burrell Wood  Photo by Kelly Davidson Women have been part of jazz from its beginning. It’s a rich but complicated story framed by limited opportunity mixed with unwritten rules, sexism, and benign neglect. None of this is surprising: Generous as jazz can be, …

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