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From left: UC Santa Cruz humanities Dean Tyler Stovall, jazz vocalist & PhD candidate Kim Nalley, UCSC history professor Eric Porter (Photo credit r.r. jones)
UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division celebrates International Jazz Day at Kuumbwa
Ph.D. graduate on keeping jazz alive, the renaissance of Black protest music
https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/05/18/graduate-profile-kim-nalley/
https://downbeat.com/news/detail/houston-persons-foot-tapping-soul
Nalley and Person also have another connection. She wrote a Ph.D. dissertation about African-American musicians in post-World War II Germany, a cohort that included Person himself, who was stationed in Heidelberg with the Air Force in the late ’50s. There, the saxophonist often sat in with players in the 7th Army band, like Cedar Walton, Eddie Harris and Leo Wright. Person’s 1968 Prestige album with Walton, Blue Odyssey, is an unsung mainstream classic. -Paul Barrios
UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division celebrates International Jazz Day at Kuumbwa
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