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“Dead Air: Jazz, Breath, and Ghosts,” with Ben Ratliff and Martin Daughtry

Poster for the event. Features circular photos of Ben Ratliff and Martin Daughtry against an eerie black and gray background featuring ghostly musicians
April 14, 2026
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Casa Hispanica, 612 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027

Dead Air:

Jazz, Breath and Ghosts

In this collaborative talk, we consider the improvisatory practice of emplaced disembodiment known as “haunting.” What does it mean to haunt, and be haunted by, the charismatic lofts and jazz clubs of the past? How is the resolute “nowness” of musicking complicated by the unknowable histories it draws upon and the phantasmic futures it projects? What literal and figurative atmospheres blow through this music?

Join us for a conversation with Ben Ratliff and J. Martin Daughtry.

Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 6 p.m.

Casa Hispanica
612 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027

Free and open to everyone but registration is recommended. To register CLICK HERE.

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