9/23/09

9/23/09

9/23/09

Abimbola Cole was recently hired as a Program Associate at the Philadelphia Folklore Project (PFP). Her primary responsibilities will be to coordinate their upcoming Community Folklife Documentation Workshop (CFDW) series which will run between September 2009 and June 2010. As a part of her responsibilites, Abimbola will attend the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society (AFS).

7/30/09

Congratuations to Christina Zanfagna, who won the Ki Mantle Hood Prize this year for her paper "Geographies of Conversion: Holy Hip Hop and the Changing Body of the City," delivered in February 2009 at the SEMSCHC conference. This is the second time that Christina won the Ki Mantle Hood Prize and, according to SEM records, she is the first two-time winner of the prize. According to the prize committee, Christina's writing was "...crisp and engaging, the topic interesting, and [her] theoretical and ethnographic approaches both sophisticated and well-considered." The Ki Mantle Hood Student Prize is for the most distinguished paper read by a student at the Annual Meeting.

7/7/09

Alexandra Isley pursues her dream (Daily Bruin article)

4/10/09

Musical Relates to Students (Daily Bruin article)

4/10/09

"Jazz on the Sacred Side" with Lesa Terry, at the Jazz Bakery, Sunday, March 8, 2009, 3:00pm.
"An easeful authoritative violinist. Her strong lyrical jazz style made me want to hear more." --Nat Hentoff
Lesa Terry - Violin; Nedra Wheeler - Bass; Lori Andrews - Harp; Maria Martinez - Drums; Special Guest Vocalists
For more information: www.lesaterry.com

2/23/09

The Macha Quartet will play their premier performance at Catalina Bar and Grill in Hollywood, on Tuesday, February 24, 2009. The quartet is made up of 3rd year UCLA Ethnomusicology/ Jazz Studies students Adam Shumate (piano), Mark Einhorn (sax), Terry Goldberg (drums) and Charlie Domingo (bass). The quartet will showcase many fresh arrangements, including material that they are preparing for the upcoming Duke Ellington festival in April.

11/7/08

Meditate: Sitar style. Acclaimed Hindustani musican to perform classical melodies along with UCLA Professor of Ethnomusicology (Daily Bruin article)

10/6/08

Classical musician experiments with his sound (Daily Bruin article)

9/24/08

The Department Welcomes New Undergraduates Students for Fall 2008

9/24/08

The Department Welcomes Eight New Graduate Students for Fall 2008

8/29/08

Finding their own rhythm (Daily Bruin article)

8/11/08

Bret Werb published the first chapter of his dissertation, "Shmerke Kaczerginski - The Partisan Troubadour," in the journal Polin, October 17, 2007.

8/11/08

Ben Harbert and his electric guitar octet played with the Catch Electric Guitar Quartet from Holland, as part of the 2008 Microfest Microtonal music extravanganza on May 10, 2008 at the USC/Arnold Schoenberg Institute. The group played Indonesian-inspired music by Chicago composer/guitarist Nathaniel.

8/11/08

The UCLA Contemporary Jazz Large Ensemble played at the Jazz Bakery on Monday, April 21, 2008. The performance featured music by current students and recent graduates: Nick DePinna, Hitomi Oba, Subaram Raman, Peter Hargreaves, Anahita Navab, Berkeley Everett, Luke Moellman, John Hollenbeck, Pat Metheny, Quincy Jones, Led Zeppelin, and Bjork. Performed by: Ryan Weston, Peter Hargreaves, Hitomi Oba, Max Kaplan, Matt Sandler, Greg Hix, Jack Kent, Ryan Svendsen, Tom Terrell, Derek Ganong, Nick DePinna, Logan Chopyk, Ryan Baker, Will Baker, Berkeley Everett, Eli Sundelson, Anahita Navab, Alex Greve, Charlie Domingo, Noah
Garabedian, Max Griffith, and Jake Jamieson.

8/11/08

Urie Norris performed with his trio on February 28, 2008 for the UCLA Academic Advancement Program's 35th anniversary celebration, "35 Years of Academic Access, Equity and Excellence."

4/2/08

Aurelia Shrenker will co-lead a tour through Georgia (Caucasus mountain region of Eurasia) this summer. It will be 10 days of visiting monasteries, singing, and feasting. It is a great opportunity for those interested in exploring the country. For information contact Aurelia <aurelia.shrenker@gmail.com> or go to: http://www.georgianchant.org

4/2/08

The fifth and newest album of Hermanos Herrera (Jorge Herrera and brothers) is now available for purchase. Go to: www.hermanosherrera.com

4/2/08

Bruins explore heritage through music (Daily Bruin article)

4/2/08

The UCLA Contemporary Jazz Large Ensemble played a FREE show of original music on Sunday (February 17th) from 11-1PM at the West L.A. Farmers' Market, located only 5 minutes away from UCLA at Santa Monica and Corinth, just behind the Courthouse. www.myspace.com/uclacontemporaryjazzle

The UCLA Contemporary Jazz Large Ensemble has been praised by world-renowned keyboardist George Duke as a group of "young musicians who are willing and able to push the musical envelope." Formed in the Fall of 2006, the group is committed to the performance of new music by student and professional composers. Under the supervision of legendary guitarist Kenny Burrell, this student-led twenty-one-piece orchestra has premiered over twenty-three pieces of music by thirteen different composers, fifteen of which were original works composed for the ensemble.

4/2/08

Aurelia Shrenker and Eva Primack made their LA debut as the duo Æ with three shows at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, located on the web at www.mjt.org. shows were Friday January 11 at 8pm and Saturday January 12 at 8 and 10pm.

Æ (Aurelia Shrenker and Eva Primack) bring together a deep knowledge of different vocal traditions, making something daring and new out of each song they sing together. They have chosen the name Æ (the joined a and e, officially named "ash") because it represents something of a dual nature--not singular, not plural, but exactly two. They often sing a cappella but enjoy accompanying themselves on dulcimer, accordion, and Georgian panduri. Their renditions are rooted in folk culture yet daring and provocative--in their music, the exuberance of youth and the reverence of ancient tradition coincide. Æ perform intimate, soulful and stirring music from the mountains of Appalachia, Caucasus Georgia, Bulgaria... the polyphony of Albania, Greece, Ukraine, Corsica... and the heart-swelling songs of the Southeast European Roma.

12/13/07

Zack Smith played with his jazz band "Pianorag" on Friday, November 23rd, opening for legendary percussionist Poncho Sanchez at The Mint, 6010 W. Pico Blvd, Los Angeles www.pianoragmusic.com

10/31/07

The Brent Canter Trio will celebrate the release of its debut CD "Soundscape" with a performance and party at LA's greatest jazz venue, the Jazz Bakery, on Sunday, November 4th. The group will perform music from the new CD and new material as well. The night gets started at 7:30 pm. Come early and stay late (we turn our clocks back an hour that night). The Brent Canter Trio is: Mark Banner (drums); Eli Sundelson (Hammond B-3 oegan); Brent Canter (guitar).

9/27/07

The Department Welcomes New Undergraduate Students

9/07/07

The Kamasi Washington Quintet played at The World Stage in Leimert Park on Friday, September 7 and Saturday, September 8. The World Stage is located at 4344 Degnan Boulevard. Los Angeles (one block east of Crenshaw, north of Vernon between 43rd Place and 43rd Street).

9/7/07

Times Picayune (New Orleans) article on Sandra Booker, "A Song for New Orleans: Jazz Singer Sandra Booker Comes Home to Heal"

7/18/07

Sandra Booker's group Underground Jazz Movement will be featured in the 12th Annual Central Avenue Jazz Festival, which will take place July 28-29, 2007 on Central Avenue in Los Angeles, between 42nd Place and 43rd Street. Click here for more information.

6/07

6/07

5/07

The Brent Canter Trio will perform at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles on Tuesday, May 22nd at 8pm. This trio consists of third year UCLA Ethnomusicology/Jazz Studies students Brent Canter (guitar), Eli Sundelson (organ), and Mark Banner (drums). The group will play original compositions.

5/07

Christina Zanfagna will present a lecture, "Flippin' the Scripture: Holy Hip Hop, Religion and Urban Youth," on May 11, 2007, in Haines Hall, UCLA campus, as a part of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies' Spring Quarter 2007 Lecture Series

5/07

Beto Gonzalez was awarded the Fulbright-Hays dissertation research fellowship for 2007-08

5/07

Valerie Dickerson was the 2007-08 awardee of the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship for her work on Cuban Protestantism

5/07

Jesse Ruskin was awarded the Fulbright-Hays fellowship for the Yoruba Group Project Abroad in Ile-Ife, Nigeria during summer, 2007

5/07

Lauryn Salazar was awarded the Institute of American Cultures/Chicano Studies Research Center Predoctoral Fellowship for 2007-08

4/07

Congratulations to the UCLA Contemporary Jazz Large Ensemble for an incredible showing at the Monterey Jazz Festival Next Generation Competition in late March. Also congratulations to UCLA Jazz Studies alumnus Hitomi Oba (B.A. '06) for winning "Outstanding Soloist" at the competition

4/07

Vocalist and Jazz Studies student Sandra Booker appeared with her group, The Underground Jazz Movement (Thomas White, Jacques Lesure, Derrick Finch and Vashon Johnson), on Wednesday, April 4 at The Edison, a jazz club in Los Angeles

3/07

On Thursday, March 1, 2007 the Afro-American Students for the Arts at UCLA,
the Ethnomusicology Undergraduate Student Organization, and the Department of Ethnomusicology presented the first annual Black History Month Music Celebration, hosted by actor/comedian Garrett Morris. The concert featured students Cephas, Regina Sewell, Sistas in Song Vocal Ensemble, Urie Norris III, Sandra Booker, Linda Alvarez, Lindsey Jackson, Lara Rann, and Dale Fielder.

2/07

SIRENE, a vocal trio which includes Eva Salina Primack and Aurelia Shrenker, performed from a repertoire of folksongs from Appalachia, Caucasus Georgia, and the Balkans, with accompaniment on mountain dulcimer, accordion, banjo, and Georgian panduri

11/06

Some gigs of Urie Norris III (pianist and Jazz Studies student):
Cabo Grille, 301 North Brea Blvd, Brea, CA.
His band is planing funk, soul, r&b, and jazz every Saturday night from 7-10pm.
Kerckoff Coffee House (on campus)
November 20 from 7-9pm, "80s Funk Explosion"

10/06

The Department Welcomes New Undergraduate Students

9/28/06

The Department Welcomes Nine New Graduate Students

8/06

EUSO Showcases Student Talent

4/06

Cephas McCullom performed live in concert at the Temple Bar in Santa Monica, "Electric Soul Music, " on Wednesday, April 26, 9pm. The concert featured Cephas on guitar, piano and vocals with his band "The Celestial Orchestra."

4/06

The Golden Gate Branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians proudly presents The 10th Annual "Festival of Spirituals, " on Sunday, April 30, 2006, 3:30 pm, Beth Eden Baptist Church, Oakland, California, featuring Kalil Wilson, tenor, Jeannine Anderson, soprano, Victoria Theodore, pianist.

Oakland-born Kalil Wilson, 24, was tenor soloist in the Oakland East Bay Symphony’s recent performance of Dvorák’s Stabat Mater. A Gluck Foundation Fellow at UCLA, and undergraduate student in the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, he has sung many lead roles with Opera UCLA and Los Angeles Opera. He is the son of Oakland-based Nigerian bandleader and music educator Baba Ken Okulolo.

3/10/06

Kathleen Noss Van Buren (whom we all know as "Katie") has accepted a tenure track position at  Sheffield University in England. She starts in August 2006.

1/27/06

Joshua Duron performed on January 27 with The Blues Experiment and other seminal Chicano bands at a show to benefit Acá Los Niños Música y Más, a burgeoning music and art school located on East Cesar Chavez Avenue in Los Angeles.

1/19/06

Christina Zanfagna moderated a panel called "Historicizing the Roots of Hip-Hop" on January 19 at the UCLA Hip-Hop Festival. The panel included Dr. Cheryl Keyes, along with Charlie Ahearn (director of Wild Style), Anthony Marshall (co-creator of Lyricist Lounge), Brian Cross, aka B+ (hip-hop photographer and filmmaker), and Professor Sohail Daulatzai of UC Irvine.

1/10/06

Chuen-Fung Wong has accepted a job offer from Macalester College. He begins work in Fall, 2006.

12/15/05

Alexandra Isley crowned queen of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity's 69th Annual Black and White Ball

10/19/05

New Undergraduate Students in the Ethnomusicology and Jazz Studies Programs

9/26/05

Six New Graduate Students Arrive on Campus