Return to the Source: Charleston: A Cradle of Jazz
2005 Symposium Proceedings, Karen A. Chandler, Editor
Featuring presentations and papers by:
• Jack McCray, Co-Principal of CJI; jazz and features writer, book reviewer and copy editor for Charleston’s Post and Courier
• Scott Shanklin-Peterson, Director and Associate Professor, Arts Management Program, College of Charleston
• A.B. Spellman, poet, critic and author; former Deputy Chairman of the Office of Guidelines and Panel Operations, National Endowment for the Arts
• Dan Morgenstern, Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University
• Jeffrey Green, British historian; biographer of Edmund Thornton Jenkins: The Life and Times of An American Black Composer, 1894-1926
• Wolfram Knauer, musicologist; Director of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt (Germany)
• Alvin Batiste, clarinetist, composer and educator; New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts
• Larry Ridley, bassist; Executive Director of the African American Jazz Caucus, Inc., an affiliate of the International Association for Jazz Education; Jazz Artist in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
Plus “Conversations in Jazz” with Elizabeth Carter Prioleau, Rollins Edwards, Stanley White, Barbara Braithwaite, Jomo Zimbabwe and Rachel Dowling

PREFACE
Karen Chandler