Jazz Singers and Musicians

Jazz Singers and Musicians

Zoom Video Conference | This program is completed

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1/12/2022-3/2/2022

10:00 AM-12:00 PM on Wed

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$25.00

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Each summer, LLC offers a wonderful course on jazz that focuses on the music. In the current course, we will look at the culture of jazz through the life stories of jazz artists and examine how they navigated through the times in which they lived – successfully at times and unsuccessfully at others. Among those we will consider are Mary Lou Williams, Thelonius Monk, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughn, John Coltrane, Marian McPartland, Bill Evans, and Esperanza Spalding. Participants in the course will be able to add others to this list.

Format: Class members will be expected to lead discussion and make presentations based on the assigned materials.

Resources/Expenses: Resources for the course include documentaries, online clips of interviews and performances, magazine articles, essays, biographies, and memoirs. No expenses are anticipated.

Mark Guyer is retired from the NIH where he was a geneticist; he has lived in Providence for about 5 years and has co-coordinated several LLC courses, none of which had to do with biological research. 

Ruth Levy Guyer co-chairs the Arts and Ethics in Palliative Care fellowship program at Brown’s Hospice. She has taught medical ethics, bioethics and writing courses at Haverford College and Johns Hopkins University and has coordinated courses on medical issues and jazz. She is a long-time fan of Darwin.