Author: Robert Baker

Professor Lily Chen-Hafteck won a Global Education Award to develop a master’s in global music education.

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,

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, 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

From Textura — The title of Inna Faliks’s 2023 book Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage could function equally for her latest

Alumnus Damjan Rakonjac (Musicology PhD, 2023), assistant professor of musicology at the University of Houston, Moores School of Music receives University of Houston’s Global Faculty Development Fund for his organization

From the NY Times: Autotune is ubiquitous, and Catherine Provenzano, musicologist and music industry professor, helps explain it.

By Robert Baker Marching band is community. It is family. It is life. Just ask Joel and Karen Fierberg. Music alum Joel Fierberg marched at UCLA from 1978 to 1982.

OUT NOW: Dean Michael Beckerman’s new book, “The Doctrine of One: Personal Encounters with Film, Art and Music,” explores one of the most intriguing questions in the humanities: Can meaning