Dr. Scott Douglass Contributes to Billy Hart's Memoir

Music Humanities Lecturer Scott Gray Douglass contributed research assistance to NEA Jazz Master drummer Billy Hart's new memoir Oceans of Time (as told to Ethan Iverson), out on Cymbal Press July 8. Hart's quartet will be performing at the Village Vanguard through Sunday to promote the book's release. Read an excerpt in The Nation. Copies available at the Vanguard, online, or at your favorite bookseller.

Last month, Douglass published "Lionel Hampton and the Black Press" in the journal Jazz and Culture.