Jonathan Gómez
Monday, April 10, 2023
5:30 PM
Getting in the spirit of The Talk of the Town, the Athenaeum is pleased to present Jonathan A. Gómez, who will lecture on Jazz in the 1920s, on April 10, at 5:30 p.m.
Gómez will give a context of jazz during this period, highlighting the importance of the era's innovative jazz artists. In addition to his discussion, he will play some key recordings after which he will hold a question-and-answer period.
Gómez is particularly interested in excavating the ways that Black people have turned to music as a site of identity formation, collaboration, community building, and political action. Gómez earned a Ph.D. in Music from Harvard University with a secondary field in African and African American Studies, and his research interests are informed by his practice and experience as a jazz saxophonist.
Jazz 88.3 “Inside Art” hosted by DAVE DREXLER
The interview airs Sunday, April 2nd at 6:00pm PT on KSDS-FM, Jazz 88.3 (streaming live at www.jazz88.org and phone apps). The full online version is now posted to the KSDS web server at the following link.
https://jazz88.org/MP3/IA040223Gomez.mp3
You may listen to the program at any time using your web browser by clicking on the above link. To download and keep the audio file for your records simply right-click (control-click with a Mac) on the time bar and select “Save Audio As..” Or, you can e-mail the link to others by right-clicking on the time bar and selecting “Copy Audio Address.” Please feel free to post this link to any of your web and social media platforms for promotion as it will remain active for the foreseeable future on the KSDS web server.
About Jonathan Gómez:
Jonathan A. Gómez is a musicologist who studies Black American musics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as musics of the African diaspora more broadly. Gómez is particularly interested in working interdisciplinarily between music studies and Black studies, excavating the ways that Black people have turned to music as a site of identity formation, collaboration, community building, and political action. In this work, he aims to foreground the voices and experiences of Black musicians, listeners, and writers in the process of understanding how music means for Black people.
Gómez’s research interests are consistently informed by his practice and experience as a jazz saxophonist. He has studied jazz and improvisation with Gary Keller, Mark Small, Rich Perry, Hal Crook, and George Garzone. He appears as a saxophonist on pianist Roberto Magris’s 2016 album, Live in Miami @ the WDNA Jazz Gallery, and Rhode Island-based group Geo Trio’s 2019 release, We Made an Album!.
Gómez has presented his work at meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and the Rhythm Changes International Jazz Conference. He earned a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology with a secondary field in African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and he holds an M.A. in Musicology from Michigan State University and a B.M. in Studio Music and Jazz from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music.
The lecture will be in person at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. There are no physical tickets for this event. Your name will be on an attendee list at the front door. Doors open at 5:00 p.m. Seating is first-come; first-served. This event will be presented in compliance with State of California and County of San Diego health regulations as applicable at the time of the lecture.
Masks optional. If you have a fever, cough, or flu-like symptoms, please stay home.