PRESENTATIONS/ PAPERS/WORKSHOPS (SINCE 1993)

THE HISTORICALLY SACRED SIDE OF JAZZ                                                                                                                                                                                            Eden Seminary, St. Louis, MO

EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF MATHEMATICS AND MUSIC: A LABORARY STYLE INVESTIGATION INTO HOW THE MATHEMATICS OF SINUSOIDAL FUNCTIONS IS USED TO VISUALIZE MUSICAL CONCEPTS  The Putney School Academic Projects, Putney, VT

IMAGINATION, CREATIVITY, AND THE ARTS  UCC Annual Conference, Drury University, Springfield, MO

STOKING THE CREATIVE FIRES: IN CONVERSATION WITH PHIL COUSINEAU   
Creativity and Faith Engaged, Eden Seminary, St. Louis, MO

SITUATING AFRICAN AMERICAN JAZZ MUSIC IN EUROPE
Jazz and Race, Past and Present Conference, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

THEORIZING AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSICAL AVANT-GARDE: Dedicated to Bill Dixon (1925-2010)
Conference Examining Race in the 21st Century, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ' CROSS SECTIONS: IMPROVISATION AND GLOBAL THEMES IN JAZZ Institute on the Pedagogies of World Music Theories, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Research mention in Analyzing musics, understanding music: Creative work and production line (创与作) Jazz Lesson. http://analyzing-music-understanding-musics.blogspot.com/
by Dr. Eddy Chong (http://eddychong.myplace.nie.edu.sg/), National Institute of Education, Music Unit, Singapore. http://www.vpa.nie.edu.sg/music/eddychong/index.htm

REASSESSING THE CULTURAL AND MUSICAL LEGACY OF HENRY PURCELL'S DIDO AND AENEAS Co-sponsored by Arts/Humanities Division & Intercultural Affairs, Elms College, Chicopee, MA.

TEACHING THE EYE TO HEAR: MUSICAL REFLECTIONS ON MATISSE'S JAZZ
Brooks Memorial Library, Brattleboro, VT ' WADING IN MUDDY WATERS, SWIMMING UP CLEAR STREAMS: CELEBRATING THE SPIRITUAL AND THE BLUES
Duffy Dance Ensemble. Ohio Theatre-Playhouse Square, Cleveland, OH ' SPIRITUALS SACRED AND SECULAR
Motown Review. Cleveland Skating Club. Cleveland, OH

MAKING JAZZ FRENCH: AMERICAN MUSIC'S INTERNCONTINENTAL PILGRIMAGE                                                                                                                                         Concord Conservatory of Music Faculty Recital Series, Concord Library, Concord, MA

Research mention in The Excelsior Profile Series of American Composers: The Music of Anthony Braxton, by Mike Heffley. Zinn Publishing Group, New York, 1996. ISBN: 0-935016-18-X

THE JAZZ IMAGINATION 2009 PIM Retreat (Persons in Ministry) The Resort at Port Arrow Head, Lake of the Ozarks, MO

UBUNTU: THE SOUNDS, COLORS, CULTURES AND AGES OF JAZZ New Haven Jazz Festival 2009, New Haven, CT

Research mention by Edward Komara, Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal ISSN: 0004-5438 Review, March 22, 2009

Research mention in How Britain Got the Blues: The Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom by Roberta Freund Schwartz. ISBN 978-0-7546-5580-0 Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007

Research mention in British Jazz Voices: Crossing Borders of Race, Nation and Class, by Hillary Moore. ISBN 0754657442, 9780754657446. U.K.: Ashgate Books, 2008.

' DESCRIBING MUSIC: CREATING SONIC ENVIRONMENTS AND RITUAL SPACES
' ORDER AND BALANCE IN MUSIC OF THE ANTIQUITY
' HE WHO CONTROLS THE PAST CONTROLS THE FUTURE': HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO MUSICAL STYLE AND BIOGRAPHY
' ALTERITY: CASE STUDIES IN MUSICAL 'OTHERNESS'
' COMMUNAL CREATION: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COGNITION AND PEDAGOGY
' SAYING SOMETHING: HOW ROCK N' ROLL SHAPED A NEW KIND OF CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Great Composers Colloquia, Elms College, Arts and Humanities Division, Chicopee, Massachusetts

IMPROVISATION & IDENTITY: DISCOVERING SELF AND COMMUNITY IN A TRANS-CULTURAL AGE
International Society of Improvised Music Conference, Lamont School of Music, University of Denver, CO

HOW A DRUM CIRCLE WORKS AT POWWOWS
The Hundredth Monkey Spiritual Center, Wilmington, VT

THE WORLD OF MUSIC: HOW CULTURES IMPROVISE
United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. Graduate Course: Spirituality & the Arts, New Brighton, MN

THE SPIRITUAL AND THE MUSIC OF MOTOWN: UNIVERSAL MESSAGES
Sponsored by The United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland and American Legacy Magazine. Ohio Theatre, Playhouse Square. The DuffyLit Ensemble, Rollo Dilworth Conductor. Cleveland, OH

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTOR, Four Parts, No Waiting: A Social History of American Barbershop Harmony, Gage Averill. American Musicspheres Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003 ISBN 0195116720

MUSIC AND MEMORY
Southeast Association Colorado Conference, UCC, Colorado Springs, CO

PIANO JAZZ: IN CONVERSATION AND PERFORMANCE WITH BILL CARTER
Filmed by UCC Ministry of Imagination, Creativity & the Arts, Amistad Chapel, Cleveland, OH

DANCING IN THE STREETS: DETROIT AND MY LIFE IN IMPROVISATION
Southeast Association Wisconsin UCC, South Milwaukee, WI

DOOR TO THE DIVINE: SOUNDSCAPES IN WORLD RELIGIONS
Conference on Imagination, Creativity and the Arts, UCC New Jersey Association, Central Atlantic Conference, Summit, NJ

IMPROVISATION IN THE COMPOSING OF MUSIC
Conference on Imagination, Creativity and the Arts, UCC New Jersey Association, Central Atlantic Conference, Summit, NJ

NOT THINKING IN JAZZ: MUSICAL & EXTRAMUSICAL METHODS & MATERIALS IN THE WORK OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS
[Primary Subjects: Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Yusef Lateef, and Wadada Leo Smith] Reassessing the Modern, Modernity and Modernism' Twentieth Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists. School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

BLUES SPIRIT: J.C. HANDY'S VIEWS ON ORIGINS OF A MUSIC AS EMOTION, SCALE, AND FORM
Workshop for West Coast Seminarians Forum, National UCC Headquarters, Cleveland, OH

DANCING WITH THE SPIRITS
Improv Workshop for Central Pacific Conference Spring Assembly of the UCC, Vancouver, WA

THELONIOUS MONK IN EUROPE
Colloquium. Department of Music, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB

OLD AND NEW DREAMS: JAZZ STYLES AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICE IN THE POST BOP ERA
University of Nebraska-Lincoln student chapter of the International Association of Jazz Educators, Lincoln, NB

SWING, SWING, SWING: JAZZ MUSIC, DANCE, AND POETRY (1-6 GRADE)
Black History Month Lecture/Demonstration, St. Thomas Day School, New Haven, CT

SCHOOL DAZE: WHAT TO LISTEN FOR IN JAZZ (1-6 GRADE), ROMARE BEARDEN DEDICATION
Black History Month Lecture/Demonstration, St. Thomas Day School, New Haven, CT

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE W/ THE SOUND OF MUSIC: ORGANOLOGY IN THE SPHERE OF FIELDWORK
Introduction to the Arts, Elms College, Arts and Humanities Division, Chicopee, Massachusetts

THE NATURE OF MUSICAL CHANGE IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP
Colloquium, presented jointly to the departments of musicology, American studies, and African and Afro-American studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

' UNIVERSAL BLUES: SEVDAH, SAUDADE, FLAMENCO, BOSSA NOVA, FADO
' FOLK USAGE AND POPULAR MUSIC: CONSIDERING GAETANO VELOSO AND PAUL McCARTNEY
' VERNACULAR USAGE AND POPULAR MUSIC: THE WORK OF THE BROTHERS SABRI AND BALFA
' BETWEEN THE SACRED AND THE SECULAR: HILDEGARD OF BINGEN AND SUSANNA BACA
' COMMERCIAL USAGE AND POPULAR MUSIC: ALICIA KEYS, USHER AND 3 MILLION WEB HITS
Great Composers Colloquia, Elms College, Arts and Humanities Division, Chicopee, Massachusetts

EXPATRIATION, CHOSEN EXILE, AND MUSICAL TRANSCULTURATION: AFRICAN AMERICAN JAZZ AMERICAN MUSICIANS IN EUROPE FROM BECHET TO BRAXTON
Conference sponsored by University of Gloucestershire, in conjunction with the European Blues Association, 2004

AFRICAN AMERICAN AVANT-GARDISM AND NEW JAZZ CRITICISM
International Association of Jazz Educators Conference, New York, New York, 2004

MODERATOR, America Wins Again: Ken Burns and the Institutionalization of Jazz History.
Symposium on the Music of Makanda Ken McIntyre. New England Conservatory, 2002

EXODUS TO EUROPE: OVERVIEW OF AFRICAN AMERICAN DISCOGRAPHICAL MOVEMENT OUTSIDE THE U.S.
International Jazz Education Conference,' Re-defining Music: Jazz in Europe,' Leeds College of Music, Leeds, United Kingdom

THEMATIC DEVELOPMENT IN LESTER YOUNG'S SOLO ON "OH, LADY BE GOOD"
Vermont Jazz Center, Brattleboro, Vermont

THELONIOUS MONK'S COMPOSITIONAL MANIPULATION OF POPULAR SONG FORM
Brattleboro Music School, Brattleboro, Vermont

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN POPULAR SONG
Memorial Hall Center for the Arts, Wilmington, Vermont

AFRICAN AMERICAN INNOVATION AND NEW JAZZ CRITICISM
Leeds International Jazz Conference, Leeds College of Music, Leeds, United Kingdom

The Devil's Music:' THE RECEPTION OF JAZZ IN AMERICA
Fine Arts Division, Highline Community College, Seattle, Washington

"...we had ideas about Africanizing the 12-tone row":
THE IDIOMATIC TRANSFORMATION OF THELONIOUS MONK'S 'œEPISTROPHY' IN EUROPE
The College Music Society, Northeast Chapter Meeting, Crane School of Music, S.U.N.Y. Potsdam

CONCEPTUALIZING THE AVANT-GARDE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPRESSIVE CULTURE
Colloquium, 'œJazz in Europe,' Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic

READER/EDITOR, Dixonia: The Bio-Discography of Bill Dixon, Benjamin Young.
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO CREATIVE IMPROVISATIONAL MUSIC IN EUROPE: AN ESSAY IN HONOR OF THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF HOLLAND'S INSTANT COMPOSERS POOL
Colloquium, 5th Guelph Jazz Festival, School of Literatures and Performance Studies in English.

JAZZ AND THE SEVEN-YEAR ITCH: A CENTURY OF CHANGE
Glendon College, Living and Learning in Retirement/'Performing Arts in Toronto'

CULTURE JAZZ: THE TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN
AVANT-GARDE MUSIC IN EUROPE
Indiana University of Pennsylvania/Sydney Bechet World Music Symposium

NOTIONS OF THE NEW: THE INCURSION OF NEW BLACK MUSIC IN EUROPE
University of Michigan/Music and Dance of Africa and the Diaspora

THE MUSIC OF BILL DIXON AND ANTHONY BRAXTON
York University/Dacary Hall Lecture Series

INVENTING THE HERITAGE OF HARMONY: CONSTRUCTIONS OF RACE, ETHNICITY AND NATION IN THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING IN AMERICA (S.P.E.B.Q.S.A.)
York University, Division of Social Anthropology/'Ethnicity and Nationalism'

BLACK MUSIC AS DOUBLE DIASPORA: PRECURSORS TO THE 'œNEW THING'S DISPERSION ABROAD
Sorbonne, University of Paris/Conference on the Legacy of African American Music in Europe
(co-sponsored by The University of Paris and Harvard University)

"I want them to be clear shapes with a life of their own:'
ON JUDITH DUNN AND THE BLACK CONTRIBUTION TO MODERN AMERICAN DANCE
Pomona College/Black Music and Dance Conference: An Integrated Approach

JAZZ IN SOUTH AFRICA: MARABI STYLE AND ITS JAZZ ANTECEDENTS
York University Graduate Music Program/'African Music'

THE SEMIOTICS OF ALBUM COVER ART: ESPERANTO RECORDS AND THE NEW JAZZ
York University Graduate Music Program/'Problems and Methods'

THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION IN JAZZ: CRITICAL REACTION TO THE 'œNEW THING'
Wesleyan University World Music Colloquium

THEORIES OF ETHNICITY AND ETHNIC CONTENT IN BARBERSHOP SINGING
Wesleyan University Ethnomusicology Colloquium

MUSIC AS NIHILISM/MUSIC AS SECESSIONISM/MUSIC AS
BLACK REVOLUTIONARY NATIONALISM
Wesleyan University Graduate Studies Program/'Sixties Movements'

SHIFTING MODERNIST IMPULSES IN JAZZ
Wesleyan University Program in Intercultural Studies

THEORIES OF AKAN IN AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPRESSIVE CULTURE
Wesleyan University Program in Intercultural Studies

SURVEY OF DEVELOPMENTS IN MODERN JAZZ
Bennington College Music Division/'The Music of Bill Dixon'

READER/EDITOR, The Musical World of Anthony Braxton, Michael Heffley.
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996

TRANSCRIBER, Saxophone Styles, David Bond. Masters Thesis, Tufts University, 1995
Musical transcription of solos by Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Ornette Coleman

FRAMING THE REVOLUTION: THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION IN JAZZ
Produced for WESU Radio, Middletown, Connecticut/'Crosscurrents'

AESTHETIC CONVERGENCE: BLACK MUSICAL VANGUARDISM AND THE GENESIS OF CREATIVE IMPROVISATIONAL MUSIC IN EUROPE
Produced for WCRT Radio, Toronto, Ontario/'Global Music Perspectives