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John Edward Hasse is a music historian, musician, and award-winning author and record producer. He is Curator of American Music at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, where he was co-director of America’s Jazz Heritage and founding executive director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. He is a member of the New Orleans Jazz Commission, the author of the acclaimed biography Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington and the editor of Ragtime: Its History, Composers, and Music. Hasse has received two ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards foe excellence in writing about music. He recently edited Jazz: The First Century, soon to be published by Pearson/Prentice-Hall.
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Jazz: The First Century
by John Edward Hasse and Tad Lathrop
Often referred to as America's classical music, jazz signified a new form of musical expression that illustrates the pace of the twentieth century. Edited by the Curator of American Music at the Smithsonian Institution, John Edward Hasse, Jazz: The First Century illustrates the circumstance surrounding jazz, illuminates its contributors, and conveys the many varieties that it takes, from cool jazz and improvisation to fusion and hip-hop. This landmark collection also examines the overlap between jazz and other art forms such as film, literature, painting and dance, as well as television and radio.
Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington
by John Edward Hasse
One of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Duke Ellington (1899-1974) led a fascinating life. Beyond Category, the first biography to draw on the vast Duke Ellington archives at the Smithsonian Institution, recounts his remarkable career: his childhood in Washington, D.C., and his musical apprenticeship in Harlem; his long engagement at the Cotton Club; the challenging years of the depression; his tours to Europe and into America's deep South, where he helped lower racial barriers; the postwar years when television and bebop threatened to eclipse the big bands; Ellington's own triumphant comeback at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival; his collaborations with Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Hodges, and Ella Fitzgerald; as well as five decades of hits and masterpieces that constantly broke new ground. The art of Duke Ellington was a musical expression of the African-American experience, in all its pain, pride, and glory.
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