CJI STAFF & ADVISORS
Karen A. Chandler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Arts Management, School of the Arts, College of Charleston (CJI Founder and Co-Principal)
Jack McCray
Jazz Journalist; former Jazz and Features Writer and Copy Editor with Charleston’s Post and Courier; native Charlestonian (CJI Founder and Co-Principal)
Tony Bell
CEO, Bell Digital Media, Charleston (CJI Videographer Photographer)
Quentin Baxter
Professional Jazz Drummer and Recording Artist; Adjunct Professor of Jazz Percussion, Department of Music, College of Charleston (CJI Resident Musical Director)
The Charleston Jazz Initiative (CJI) Circle is a “network” of local, national and international colleagues and advisors who help “connect” CJI principals and project staff to research, oral history interviewees, archival collections, public programming, original and creative work, and marketing and fundraising sources.
HONORARY CHAIR
Joseph P. Riley, Mayor, City of Charleston
CJI ADVISORS
Jeffrey Green
British Historian; Biographer of Edmund Thornton Jenkins; West Sussex, England
Wolfram Knauer
Director, Jazz-Institut, Darmstadt, Germany
Dan Morgenstern
Director, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University
Larry Ridley
Bassist; Executive Director, African American Jazz Caucus
Willie Ruff
Hornist and Bassist; Professor of Music, Yale University
A.B. Spellman
Poet, Critic and Author; Former Deputy Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts; Washington, DC
