"sphere: a journal of jazz in motion" New Orleans Launch

Words & Music and Jazz Generations Initative (JGI) are teaming up to celebrate the launch of JGI's new journal!

Named in homage to jazz’s greatest iconoclast and quietest philosopher, Thelonious
Sphere Monk, sphere: a journal of jazz in motion is a quarterly (but constantly
publishing) digital magazine that aims to disrupt and excite public discourse around jazz and Black improvised music.

Managing editor of sphere Danielle Amir Jackson, New Orleans contributors Kristina Kay Robinson and T.R. Johnson, and New York contributor Hank Shteamer will be in conversation with JGI New Orleans Creative Director Denise Frazier on the significance of interdisciplinary jazz studies and scholarship, the importance of the audience/reader and plans for future contributions.

sphere includes culturally informed criticism; public scholarship; journalistic coverage; and artist-written pieces on contemporary and historical trends in jazz and #BAM, as well as multimedia engagements with the music. sphere also interfaces with other elements of the JGI program, including curated daily show listings for New York and New Orleans; video coverage of those cities’ jazz worlds; an active social media presence; and eventually, a podcast and oral history project. The magazine participates in the JGI’s mission to engage in real time with jazz music as an intergenerational and interdisciplinary art form.

Free and open to the public; donations gratefully accepted. Donations support One Book One New Orleans' year-round work.

The Andre Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice is accessible to community members who require mobility-related ADA accommodations. Parking near the venue is free, though somewhat limited. The nearest RTA stop is at N. Broad and Columbus.