Global Jazz Studies
Program
Faculty
Our Faculty
Teodross Avery
Lecturer - Saxophone
Duane Benjamin
Continuing Lecturer; Director of Gluck Global Jazz Ensemble and Commercial Music Studio Ensemble.
Clayton Cameron
Senior Continuing Lecturer - Percussion, Director of Jazz Combo
Charley Harrison
Continuing Lecturer, Director of UCLA Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Combo
Tamir Hendelman
Continuing Lecturer- Jazz Piano, Jazz Keyboard Harmony, Jazz Theory and Improvisation
Cheryl L. Keyes
Professor - Global Jazz Studies and Ethnomusicology (Contemporary Jazz, Hip Hop)
Jacques Lesure
Lecturer - Jazz Guitar
Steven Loza
Professor - Global Jazz Studies, Ethnomusicology, Director of the UCLA Center for Latino Arts
Roberto Miranda
Adjunct Assoc. Professor
Hitomi Oba
Continuing Lecturer and Director of Contemporary Jazz Ensemble
Gretchen Parlato
Lecturer- Voice
Ruth Price
Adjunct Assoc. Professor
Daniel Rosenboom
Lecturer - Trumpet Performance
Otmaro Ruiz
Lecturer
Arturo Stable
Lecturer
Salim Washington
Professor and Chair of Global Jazz Studies
Michele Weir
Adjunct Professor
Faculty & Students in the News
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Album Drop: Gretchen Parlato, "The Wise Ones"
Gretchen Parlato, global jazz studies faculty, just dropped her new album “The Wise Ones” with Edition records. Reuniting with Robert Glasper, Gerald Clayton, Mark Guiliana and long-time collaborator Alan Hampton,
Gretchen Parlato: The Wise Ones review – snappy grooves and languid covers from always-arresting jazz singer
From The Guardian: Hearing Gretchen Parlato’s spellbinding version of the Herbie Hancock song Butterfly was unforgettable when the eloquent LA-born singer’s star glimmered into view in the 2000s.
Tamir Hendelman Trio Releases New Music Video
Tamir Hendelman, continuing lecturer of Jazz Piano, just released a new music video recorded at ConcertLab in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The Tamir Hendelman Trio features Sylvain Fournet-Fayas on bass and Germain Cornet on