Session 1: 1 Jazz & Gender 21 WEDNESDAY 23 JUNE 10.45 GMT CONFER ENCE PROG RAM ME 2 Credits Contents 3 Copyright 2021 Edinburgh College Images copyright The Library of Congress of Art and the author(s). available online at: Welcomes 6 – 9 74 Lauriston Place www.flickr.com/photos/library-of-congress/ Edinburgh albums/72157624588645784/. EH3 9DF Timetables/schedules 10 – 13 www.eca.ed.ac.uk Front cover: 52nd Street, NYC, July 1948, William P. Gottlieb, 1917. Image copyrights as marked. The use of images is for educational Page 15: Portrait of Mary Lou Williams, Day 1: Sessions 15 – 26 purposes only. Every effort has New York, N.Y., ca. 1946, William P., been made to contact the copyright Gottlieb, 1917. holders for the images used in this book. Please contact Edinburgh Page 27: Portrait of Milt (Milton) Jackson Day 2: Sessions 27 – 37 College of Art with any queries. and Ray Brown, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948, William P. Gottlieb, 1917. Book design by Nicky Regan. Page 40: Portrait of Sarah Vaughan, Café Day 3: Sessions 38 – 47 Edited by Dr. Marian Jago. Society (Downtown) New York, N.Y., ca. August 1946, William P. Gottlieb, 1917. All rights reserved. Page 38: Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie and Keynote 47 No part of this book may be Georgie Auld, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., reproduced in any form or by any ca. August 1947, William P. Gottlieb, 1917. electronic or mechanical means including information storage Page 58: Portrait of Thelonious Monk, Day 4: Sessions 48 – 57 and retrieval systems, without Minton’s Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. permission in writing from the September 1947, William P. Gottlieb, 1917. authors. Back cover: Portrait of Art Hodes, Kaiser Biographies 58 – 69 Printed in Scotland by Ivanhoe Marshall, Henry (Clay) Goodwin, Sandy Caledonian. Williams, and Cecil (Xavier) Scott, Times Square, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1947, ISBN: 978-1-912669-37-0 William P. Gottlieb, 1917. In memorium 70 – 71 4 Committees 5 Conference Committee Programme Committee Dr. Marian Jago Dr. Marian Jago Conference Chair, University of Edinburgh Conference Chair, University of Edinburgh Roderick Buchanan-Dunlop Dr. Pedro Cravinho University of Edinburgh Birmingham City University Dr. James Cook Maya Cunningham University of Edinburgh University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dr. Pedro Cravinho Dr. Damian Evans Birmingham City University Research Foundation for Music in Ireland Maya Cunningham Dr. Marc Edward University of Massachusetts, Amherst Hannaford University of Michigan Dr. Damian Evans Dr. Matthias Heyman Research Foundation for Music in Ireland University of Antwerp Prof. Björn Heile Dr. Kelsey Klotz University of Glasgow University of North Carolina at Charlotte Prof. Raymond MacDonald Dr. Mark Lommano University of Edinburgh Albright College Dr. Haftor Medböe Dr. Gayle Murchison Edinburgh Napier University William & Mary Dr. Nikki Moran Dr. Loes Rusch University of Edinburgh Utrecht University Prof. Gabriel Solis Dr. Floris Schuiling University of Illinois, Urbana Utrecht University Dr. Aleisha Ward National Library of New Zealand Dr. Christi J. Wells Arizona State University 6 Welcome Welcome 7 The Reid School of Music at Edinburgh Edinburgh College of Art has the College of Art is delighted to be ambition to bring together and entangle hosting this year’s Documenting academic rigour, research power, Jazz conference. inspiring education, inventive methods, disciplinary engagement and creative The themes offered in the call for papers practices, with subjects originating expose important seams that demand within an ‘ancient’ and world-leading attention and reflection both in jazz university coming together with those scholarship and more broadly across music stemming from one of the longest studies. Well-being, race, gender, and established art schools in the UK. environment are active concerns here at our School and understanding how music As an international community of plays into and around them is more practitioners, historians and theorists, important now than ever before. we aim to create new knowledge and innovation, based on our capacity to facilitate Documents of music performances tell conversations across disciplines and achieve of stories, journeys, possibilities, and an in-depth understanding about how new experiences yet without scholarship, they forms of representation and experience are rest untold and unshared. Conferences like developed and articulated as and in practice. this can help connect us with perspectives of We are also committed to conjoining data history that reach beyond text into archive, and creativity, and contend that knowledge place and sound. and artistry are interdependent complex We are particularly excited to welcome such coordinates of creativity. a diverse array of academics from across the We are therefore delighted to host the 2021 globe and while we all wish we could host edition of the Documenting Jazz conference, you in person and share the magnificent city which seems so well aligned with the of Edinburgh with you, I have no doubt that objectives of Edinburgh College of Art the conference will sustain discussion late to analyse and understand creative practice into the Zoom night and collaborations in order to foment its further ambition long into the future. and reach. Huge thanks to the conference and programme committees for bringing everything together so skilfully. Professor Juan Cruz Principal, Edinburgh College of Art Dr. Martin Parker Head of the Reid School of Music Edinburgh College of Art 8 Conference Welcome 9 While the limits placed on us by the global In some instances their sense of the music, its It is my sincere pleasure to welcome you Covid pandemic have led to mitigation people, its aesthetic, its values, and its place practices which we have largely found less within American culture have been formed all to this third iteration of Documenting than ideal in their limiting in most cases the by them, silently. Through his association live, in-the-moment, and in-person aspects of with publications such as Down Beat, The Jazz hosted by the Reid School of Music, jazz that so often sit at the heart of the music Washington Post, and Record Changer, and its community, I invite us here to consider Gottlieb’s images have joined with the written part of the Edinburgh College of Art at the positive aspects of our very strange year – discourse on jazz, and with the intersections the ways in which being forced to ‘encounter’ between journalism, criticism, and scholarly the University of Edinburgh. It’s a shame jazz in new ways might have brought us writing. In being housed in their entirety to new perspectives. In having to take this as an archive hosted by the Smithsonian that I’m not able to welcome you here on- conference online, for example, while we miss Institute, these images highlight the essential the chance to meet with one another in-person role played by jazz archives, and the ways campus in the heart of the amazing city and in Edinburgh, we have been able to in which access to stable, public-serving open our event up to a wider audience funding maintains, preserves, and makes of Edinburgh—hopefully that opportunity than would have been possible otherwise! accessible such important key ‘documents’. I’m very pleased to report that we have Such archives by their very existence also will arise again in the future! presenting delegates at Documenting Jazz help to move the music—and therefore its 2021 from North America, South America, constitutive communities—into the cultural the UK, the EU, and Israel, as well as an mainstream. Having decreed that his images audience which includes practitioners, enter the public domain, the collection also This year’s conference theme invites us students (both undergraduate and post- links through to issues of rights, accessibility, graduate), and other colleagues from within and ownership. They’re also gorgeous works to consider the various ways, places, and the jazz studies community around the world. of art in their own right, and I’m very pleased to be able to make use of them here. I would like to thank Dr. Damian Evans contexts in which jazz is encountered and and Dr. Pedro Cravinho as past chairs of I look forward to meeting as many of you Documenting Jazz for their hard-earned as I can over the four days of the conference, the impacts that these encounters have wisdom; the conference and programme and to hearing what promises to be diverse committees for their assistance across these and thought-provoking program of papers. upon the identity, reception, reputation, past several months; the Principal of the My thanks to all of you for sharing your Edinburgh College of Art, Juan Cruz and work and your time with us. practice, and perceived value of jazz and Head of the Reid School of Music, Martin Fàilte! Parker for their enthusiasm and support; Dr. its constituents. This theme is perhaps James Cook for his incredible help in setting up some of the online aspects of this event; particularly resonant following a year and Nicky Regan for the brilliant design work. in which we’ve all had to encounter Indeed, in framing the design of this conference program around iconic jazz jazz—whether as performer, researcher, images taken by William P. Gottlieb between 1938-1948, we’ve managed to engage with student, teacher, listener, or archivist several of the themes central to Documenting Jazz. The images that Gottlieb captured of jazz Dr. Marian Jago (primarily in New York City and Washington —in radically new ways. 2021 Conference