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DESCRIPTION:This week\, in collaboration with the Musicology Area of the De
 partment of Music Research\, the Jazz area forum welcomes:\n\nMAXINE GORDO
 N\, jazz historian\, archivist and researcher\n\nMs. Gordon’s presentation
  of her research will be followed by a conversation with Schulich jazz fac
 ulty members Camille Thurman\, award-winning tenor saxophonist and vocalis
 t\, and Darrell Green\, drummer.\n\n\nMaxine Gordon  is an independent sch
 olar with a lifetime career working with jazz musicians. She is an oral hi
 storian and archivist in the fields of Jazz and African American cultural 
 history whose book  Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gor
 don (University of California Press\, 2018) fulfills the promise she made 
 to her late husband\, the jazz saxophonist and Academy Award–nominated act
 or Dexter Gordon\, to complete his biography.  \n\nGordon is currently wor
 king on her next book\, “Quartette: Four Women in Jazz\, Stories from the 
 Lives of Maxine Sullivan\, Velma Middleton\, Melba Liston\, and Shirley Sc
 ott.” The book will be presented in a context that is described as “Jazz G
 eography\,” using a close look at the element of place as a factor in the 
 artists’ lives. Gordon will pursue archival research\, searching all inter
 views in order to incorporate the artists’ voices in the work.  \n\nGordon
  earned an MA in African diaspora history from New York University\, where
  she received a Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship. In 2021\, she was a reside
 nt fellow at the Dora Maar House\, in Ménerbes\, France. Sophisticated Gia
 nt\, which was made possible by the Constance and William Withey Endowment
  Fund in History and Music\, won a Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award from 
 the ASCAP Foundation\, taking home the Timothy White Award for Outstanding
  Music Biography.\n\n \n
DTSTART:20221013T230000Z
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LOCATION:Tanna Schulich Hall\, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building\, CA\, QC\, M
 ontreal\, H3A 1E3\, 527 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Schulich Jazz Area & Musicology present: Maxine Gordon
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