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John Edward Hasse

Member profile details

Membership level

Jazz Journalist (professional- voting member)

First name

John Edward

Last name

Hasse

photo/avatar

City

Alexandria

Country

I am a jazz

writer
audio producer
other

"Other" means. . .

curator, speaker

website/blog URL 1

www.smithsonianjazz.org

website/blog URL 2

www.johnedwardhasse.com

I am the author/producer of

co-author/co-producer of "Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology" (2011)

Available at (URL or ISBN #1)

www.folkways.si.edu/jazz

I am also the author/ producer of:

"Discover Jazz" (with Tad Lathrop)

Available at (URL or ISBN #2)

http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Category-Life-Genius-Ellington/dp/0306806142/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298323784&sr=8-1

Other key Publications/Productions

Editor, "Jazz: The First Century" (2000)
Author, "Beyond Category" (1993)
Producer/author, "The Classic Hoagy Carmichael" (1988)
Editor, "Ragtime: Its History, Composers, and Music" (1985)

My interests in jazz are:

broad

More about what I do:

Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Founder of Jazz Appreciation Month and of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Write regularly for The Wall Street Journal.

I support the JJA because

it's an important organization and needs to be supported!