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John Szwed on Kerouac as Improviser
Kerouac's engagement with jazz.
Europe’s Blues and Soul: A Different Look at Jazz Aesthetics
Honoring jazz' roots, and one's own.
John Szwed on "Blues for New Orleans": VIDEO
Professor John Szwed talks about New Orleans' creole heritage.
George Lewis and LEMUR
George Lewis performs with the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots
David Amram on the Beat Generation and Jazz
Amram as "Beat" artist.

The Multimedia Center is the home for video resources on Jazz Studies Online. Concert and interview footage from Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies public events will appear here, as well as complete lectures from some of the world's leading jazz scholars.

Robert O'Meally on Romare Bearden

Columbia's Zora Neale Hurston Professor Robert G. O'Meally discusses Romare Bearden and the connections between jazz, visual art, and modernism. Far more than simply treating jazz as a subject for art, Professor O'Meally argues that Romare Bearden was a "jazz artist" in both a deeper and a broader sense, employing techniques of improvisation, rhythm, and narrative that he shared with the musicians of his time.