Music Humanities Lecturer Dr. Scott Gray Douglass presented his paper "Poochie’s Missing Chronicle: The Lost History of Richmond Jazz" at the joint meeting of the MLA Atlantic Chapter and the AMS Capital Chapter on October 19, 2024, at the Library of Congress in Washington DC.
Part of an extensive jazz education oral history project, Scott's paper tells the story of Dr. George "Poochie" Ross (1938-1993), jazz and classical woodwind virtuoso and Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Maryland College Park, and how Dr. Ross's manuscript history of Richmond (Va.) jazz and the accompanying oral history interview tapes disappeared after Ross's untimely death in 1993.
As a result of Scott's research, efforts are underway in Richmond and at the University of Maryland to uncover evidence of this groundbreaking project by one of jazz education's most remarkable minds–George Ross.
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