Jazz Studies
Dave Burrell's Archive Given to Pitt
The Center for American Music, part of the University of Pittsburgh Library System, has acquired the Dave Burrell Archive.
Burrell was an influential innovator in New York’s free jazz scene and played alongside such trailblazing musicians as alto saxophonist Marion Brown and tenor saxophonists Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, and David Murray.
Yoko Suzuki
Deanna Witkowski Receives Jazz Journalist Association Award for Biograph/Autobiography of the Year
Nicole Mitchell Named Jazz Journalist Association's Flutist of the Year
AJ Five Quintet: Songs for Tomorrow at City Of Asylum Feb. 27
Deanna Witkowski releases Force of Nature on MCG Jazz
Join Deanna for celebratory concerts with bassist Ava Lintz and drummer George Heid III.
Sunday, February 6 at 6 p.m. (in person and viritual)
City of Asylum
40 W. North Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
Free to the public
RSVP to watch live in person or online
Nicole Mitchell Celebrated with Residency at Mills College
A J Johnson's Love Unlimited Trio at City of Asylum Feb. 8
City of Asylum will present A J Johnson’s Love Unlimited Trio live at Alphabet City on February 8, 2022 from 7–8:30. Tickets are FREE for both in-person and online attendance with registration.
Nicole Mitchell's "Mothership Calling" at the Oakland Museum
Nicole Mitchell's sound installation Mothership Calling can currently be experienced as part of the Oakland Museum of California's exhibition Mothership: Voyage into Afrofuturism. Presented together with murals by Sydney Cain, the work tells the story of Octavia Butler's Earthseed novels through an immersive soundscape.