Research

Books/Articles

2010    Peer Reviewer, “Music in Circulation between Diasporic Histories and Modern Media: Exploring Sonic politics in two Bollywood films Om Shanti Om and Dulha Mil Gaya.”, for South Asian Diaspora Journal, April

2008    “The Music of Bangladesh” in The World and its Peoples Encyclopedia, ed. Clive Carpenter, Brown Reference Group, London, England

2007    “An Analysis of Tenor Saxophonist Joe Henderson’s Composition and Improvisation on ‘Recordame’ (Page One 1963): The Sonic Architecture of a Master Improviser”, in IAJE Jazz Canada Newsletter, Spring 2007

“An Analysis of Tenor Saxophonist Joe Henderson’s Composition and Improvisation on ‘Recordame’ (Page One 1963): The Sonic Architecture of a Master Improviser” in Conference Proceedings from the 2007 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii

2006     “Advanced Topics in Jazz Improvisation.” in Jazz Pedagogy: A Canadian Perspective. Ed. Dr. Brian Lillos: Creative Canadian Jazz Voice, Toronto. September  

2004    An Analysis of the Jazz Improvisation and Composition in Selected Works from the Blue Note Records Period of Tenor Saxophonist Joe Henderson from 1963 to 1966. Dissertation, New York University: UMI  

 

Conference Paper Presentations

2007    "Improvisers from two worlds: Zakir Hussain’s Making Music: Indo-Jazz or Jazz-Indo?"at the 2nd Annual Conference of the International Society for Improvised Music, Evanston, Illinois

"An Analysis of Tenor Saxophonist Joe Henderson’s Composition and Improvisation on ‘Recordame’ (Page One 1963): The Sonic Architecture of a Master Improviser", at the International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii

2006    "The Improvisational Style of Joe Henderson: Jazz Architecture in Shape, Colour and Line". South African Jazz Educators’ Conference, Durban, South Africa

2004    "An Analysis of Joe Henderson’s Solo on “Inner Urge”". Southwestern Chapter Conference of the ‘College Music Society’. Los Angeles, California