Friday, September 7th The Guelph Jazz Festival

8:00a m – 9:00am Breakfast and Colloquium 9:00 am: Welcoming Remarks: Dr. Alan Wildeman (Vice-President, Research, University of Guelph) www.guelphjazzfestival.com 123 Woolwich St. Second Floor 9:00am – 10:15 am Guelph, ON N1H 3V1 2007 KEYNOTE SPEAKER 519.763.4952 Guelph Jazz Festival Anthony Braxton (Wesleyan University) “Tri-Centric [email protected] Modeling” [email protected] Colloquium

This great event could not have happened 10:30am – 11:45am PLENARY PANEL: The Future of without the generous support of our sponsors. People Get Ready: Jazz This colloquium is generously sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), The Future Of Jazz Is CHAIR: Ron Gaskin (CKLN 88.1 Toronto) the Lloyd-Carr-Harris Foundation, the SOCAN NOW! Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian William Parker Heritage/Patrimoine canadien, Magnolia Catering, Universidad de Veracruz, Mexico, the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, the Office of the Vice-President, Noon – 1:00pm Lunch Research, the Office of the Associate Vice-President, Student Affairs, the School of English and Theatre 1:00pm Studies, the School of Fine Art and Music, the School of Languages and Literatures, and the Central Student WORKSHOP: Cross Border Association at the University of Guelph. Conversations The Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium would not be Featuring Jah Youssouf, Jayme Stone, Jesse Stewart, possible without our volunteers. Your hard work and Marianne Trudel, Alain Derbez, Karl Webb, Mark dedication is greatly appreciated. September 5-7th Kyriacou, Lewis Melville (host) Thank you to Hospitality Services for generously Macdonald Stewart Art Centre donating dishes. 358 Gordon St., Guelph, ON 2:15pm – 3:15pm PANEL: Exploring the Food generously supplied and made by the Improvisative: Two Views wonderful team at Magnolia Catering. ALL COLLOQUIUM EVENTS ARE

CHAIR: Ellen Waterman (School of Fine Art and Music, Colloquium Organizing Committee FREE AND OPEN TO THE University of Guelph) Frederique Arroyas GENERAL PUBLIC Benjamin Piekut (Musicology, Columbia University) “From Karl Coulthard the Performative to the Improvisative: Reconsidering Butler” Ajay Heble (chair) Tracy McMullen (Critical Studies / Experimental Practices, Ric Knowles University of California, San Diego) “Playing the Peformative: Howard Spring Replay and Improvisativity” Jesse Stewart Ellen Waterman 3:30pm – 4:30pm ONSTAGE INTERVIEW: Liberation Music For more information please contact: Gregory Fenton An interview with Charlie Haden Colloquium Coordinator Conducted by Patrick Case (Human Rights and Equity [email protected] Office, University of Guelph) (519) 824-4120, ext. 56547 Wednesday, September 5th John Brackett (Music, University of Utah) 3:45pm – 5:00pm Change Has Come?: Chronicling the ‘Crisis’ on New York’s Lower East Side” 8:00am – 9:00am Breakfast PANEL: Jazz, Improvisation, and Marc Ribot (Composer/Guitarist, New York Transcultural Understanding City) “Crisis in Indie/New Music Clubs: The rare feeding of a musical margin” 9:15am – 10:30am CHAIR: Charity Chan (Mills College, Oakland, Scott Thomson (School of English and Theatre PANEL: The Virtual Future of Jazz: California) Studies, University of Guelph) “AIMToronto and Kevin McNeilly (Department of English, UBC) the Venue Priorities of Today’s Musicians’ Improvisation, Technology, and “Improvising Diaspora: , John Coltrane and the Collectives” Time Music of Radical Respect” Alain Derbez (Independent Writer and Musician, Noon – 1:00pm Lunch CHAIR: Ric Knowles (School of English and Theatre Mexico) “Mexico: Steps Against Desmemory” Studies, University of Guelph) Daniel Schnee (Ethnomusicology, York University) Pauline Oliveros (Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy “Middle Eastern Swing: What Arabic Music can Offer the N.Y.) “Deep Listening Convergence 2007: Description of a Future of Jazz” 1:00pm Process” D Y Ngoy (Freelance Researcher, Paris, France) “The WORKSHOP: Boundaries? What Roger Dean (austraLYSIS, and MARCS Auditory Guardians of Harlem” Boundaries? The Shape of Jazz to Laboratories, University of Western Sydney, Australia) th Come “Dynamic Signifying: Control of Sound Intensity by the Thursday, September 6 Quintet and in Computer-Mediated Improvisation” Featuring Justin Small and David Mitchell Ken Prouty (College of Music, Michigan State University) 8:00am – 9:00am Breakfast (Do Make Say Think), Rob Mazurek, Nicole “Not Dead, But De-Centered: Jazz’s New (Web) Address” Mitchell, Matt Bruder, Jason Adaseweicz, Rob Wallace (English, University of California, Santa Jason Ajemian, Mike Reed (The Exploding Barbara) “The Drumset is a Time Machine” Star Orchestra), Isaiah Ceccarelli, Jean 9:00am – 10:15am Derome 10:45am – Noon PANEL: Musicians, Critics, CONCERT: (Not Just) Talking Journalists: Perspectives on the 2:30pm – 3:45pm Heads Future of Jazz PANEL: Jazz Education, Jazz Activism, Jazz Futures Featuring Pauline Oliveros, Roger Dean, Ellen Waterman, Ajay Heble, Jesse Stewart, Eric Lewis, CHAIR: Howard Spring (School of Fine Art and Music, Tracy McMullen and Ichiro Fujinaga University of Guelph) CHAIR: Christine Bold (School of English and Jane Reynolds (Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Theatre Studies, University of Guelph) Noon – 1:00pm Lunch “Musicians’ Perspectives on Creative Improvised Music” Alexandre Pierrepont (Anthropologie, Howard Mandel (New York University / Jazz Journalists ethnologie et science des religions, Université de Association) “The Future of Jazz – Thanks to Miles, Paris, France) “The Inside (Outside) Songs of 2:15pm – 3:30pm Ornette and Cecil” William Parker” PANEL: Cecil, Ornette, Sun Ra, Jim Merod (American Literature, Soka University of Roger Mantie (Music Education, University of William Parker: Negotiating America, Orange County, California) “Is the End in Sight Toronto) “Is Jazz Dead: Who’s Asking and Who for Jazz As We Know It? (A Reply to Red Rodney, Charles Cares?” Tradition and Innovation Mingus, and Stephen Hawking)” Peter Johnston (Ethnomusicology, York CHAIR: Liz Groeneveld (School of English and Theatre University) “Searching for Uncommon Ground: Studies, University of Guelph) 10:30am - Noon Eddie Prévost’s Improvisation Workshop and the Alan Stanbridge (Visual and Performing Arts and Arts Construction of Collective Identity” Management, University of Toronto) “Old and New ROUNDTABLE: Crisis in New Andrew Jacob Scott (Music, York University / Dreams: Tradition and Hybridity in Contemporary Music” Music? Vanishing Venues and the University of Western Ontario) “Community as a

Jason Robinson (Music and African American Studies, Future of Experimentalism in New site of Jazz Pedagogy: Exploring Toronto’s Jam University of California, San Diego) “Space, Race , and York City Sessions from 1956-1962” Transcending Place: Sun Ra, Afro-futurism, and Black Nationalism” 5:00pm Peter Williams (American Studies, University of Kansas) Tamar Barzel (Ethnomusicology, Wellesley College, CONCERT: Isaiah Ceccarelli “’Sound Has No Parents’: Ornette Coleman’s Harmolodic ) “Experimental Music: How Does the Democracy” Centre Hold?” Ensemble Michael Morse (Cultural Studies, Trent University) “Jazz and the Rise of the Uniculture”