PGH Jazz Panel

PGH Jazz Panel: Colter Harper & Jerry Zolten

Moderated by CLP Music, Film, & Audio | Building: Long Hall | Room: 204 | 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

After the presentation, the author will be signing books in a tent outside next to the Information Tent.

Their books will be available at the bookstore in the atrium of Long Hall

Biographies

Colter Harper is an ethnomusicologist and musician whose research centers on the intersections of nightlife, popular music, labor, and placemaking. Colter has toured with the rock band Rusted Root and served as a Fulbright Scholar in the University of Ghana. Currently, he is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the University at Buffalo’s Department of Music.

Jerry Zolten is an American roots music and pop culture writer, documentary film producer/narrator, and musician & musical producer. In addition to his book on the Black gospel group the Dixie Hummingbirds, his work includes Chimpin’ the Blues with cartoonist Robert Crumb, producing albums by the Fairfield Four, and co-producing How They Got Over: Gospel Quartets and the Road to “Rock ‘n’ Roll.