Performance

(All selections original unless otherwise noted)

 

Beatrice (Sam Rivers, arr. Long)

 

Crazy Eights

 

Changing Views

 

I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (Duke Ellington, arr. Long)

 

Wading

 

 

 

Compositions/Arrangements

 

At All Costs

 

Before Dawn

 

I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (Ellington, arr. Long)

 

161st and River (for Brass Quintet)

 

Salt Peanuts (for Piano Trio) (Dizzy Gillespie, arr. Long)

 

 

 

Research

 

Reaching Beyond a Conventional Palette: The Harmonic Conception of Kenny Wheeler

(Presented at the 2007 Annual Conference of the IAJE and published in 2007 Jazz Research Proceedings Yearbook)

 

 

An Artist’s Signature: Kenny Wheeler’s Improvised Solo on ‘3/4 in the Afternoon’

(Published in Jazz Educators Journal, March 1998)

 

 

Blues in Bebop: The Composite Vocabulary of Kenny Dorham

(ESM DMA Lecture Recital)

 

 

Obstacle or Opportunity: Challenges and Solutions for Non-Traditional Jazz Ensemble Instrumentation

(Presented at the 2007 Annual Conference of the Maryland Music Educators Association)

 

 

Concert or Communitas: Jazz and Ritual Space from the Nightclub to the Concert Hall

(Presented at the 2006 Conference of the Niagara Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology)

 

 

From Strange Fruit to Springsteen:

Constructing an American Identity Through Sociomusical Interactions

(Presented at the 2005 Conference on Art, Faith, and Social Justice at Marquette University)

 

 

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