Musicology Lecture Series: Spring 2013
Friday, January 25
4 pm, Room 101, Biddle Music Building
RAYMOND KNAPP (UCLA)
The Sound of Broadway's Mean Streets
Friday, March 1
4 pm, Room 101, Biddle Music Building
ARVED ASHBY (Ohio State University)
Mahler's "new mode of musical perception, tightly wound around itself"
Jazz producer Creed Taylor at Duke
Grammy Award-winning record producer (and Duke alum, '54) Creed Taylor gave a public talk on October 19 in the auditorium at the Nasher Museum of Art. The multi-media retrospective, which included recordings some of the top jazz artists of the 1950's - 1970's, drew students and community members alike.
Creed Taylor founded CTI Records in 1968, after working as an influential producer at Verve, A&M Records, ABC-Paramount, and others. CTI Records became one of the most successful jazz labels of the 1970s, producing records by Herbie Hancock, Stanley Turrentine, Nina Simone, Art Farmer, and many others.
The Creed Taylor residency, which included visits to classes and meetings with students in the Jazz Studies Program, was sponsored by the Department of Music Lecture Series in Musicology and the Duke Jazz Studies Program.
More about Creed Taylor and his visit to Duke:
Behind the Sounds (Durham Herald-Sun)
The Stories of Jazz (Durham Herald-Sun)
