Michael Washington

Education:

DOCTOR DEGREE EQUIVALENT - 2000

Books and Publications

Salim Washington, "Don't Let the Devil (Make Your) Lose Your Joy," in Leonard Brown, ed. Coltrane Articles, Oxford University Press, 2008. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008

Salim Washington, "Red Dragaon, Blue Warrior: An Interview with Fred Ho." (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007

Salim Washington, "The Avenging Angel of Creation/Destruction: Black Music and the Afro-technological in the Science Fiction of Henry Dumas and Samuel R. Delany," in George Lewis and Ellie Hisama, eds. Music and the Afrotechnnological, special edition of JAMS.
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007

With Farah Jasmine Griffin, Clawing at the Limits of Cool: the collaboration between Miles Davis and John Coltrane 1954-1960, St. Martin's Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2007

Salim Washington, "Hurricane Katrina and the New Jazz Orthodoxy," Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter, Volume 35, Number 1, Fall 2005. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005

Salim Washington, "All the Things You Could Be by Now: Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus and the Limits of Avant-Garde Jazz," in Uptown Conversations, pp. 27-49, Columbia University Press, 2003. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2003

Salim Washington, "Meditations on Coltrane's Legacies," Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter, Volume 31, Number 2, pp. 1, 2, 12, 13. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003

Salim Washington, "Of Black Bards, Known and Unknown: Music as Racial Metaphor in James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," in Callaloo, Recent takes on Jazz Poetics, pp. 233-256, Winter 2001/2002. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002

Creative Work

"First Came a Woman: Abbey Lincoln's Compositional Development," American Studies Association, Hartford. 2007

Makanda Project, featuring Oliver Lake, Passinthru, 2007. 2007

Salim Washington Quartet, with strings, Cadence, 2007. 2007

Carl Grubbs Quintet, Firehouse Arts Center, Danbury, Ct. 2006

Oliver Lake, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. 2006

Brother Soul, Carl Grubbs Quartet, CIMP #336, 2006. 2006

Commissioned to compose music for "Jazz in Jail," an epic poem by Louis Reyes Rivera. 2006

Harlem Arts Ensemble, Plymouth State College. 2006

Harlem Arts Ensemble, University of Pennsylvania. 2006

Harlem Homecoming, Salim Washington and the Harlem Arts Ensemble, Ujam 126,
2006.
2006

Kuumba Frank Lacy sextet, Jazz Gallery. 2006

Onaje Alan Gumbs, St. Nick's Pub. 2006

Salim Washington/Hakim Jami Quartet, Bohemian National Home, Detroit.
2006

Arrangements of Sun Ra compositions for Ahmed Abdullah's Diaspora. 2005

Billy Bang, Catania, Italy. 2005

Eight Vignettes of Ellington, James Jabbo Ware, Me, We, and Them Orchestra, Y'all 005, 2005.
2005

Traveling the Spaceways. Ahmed Abdullah's Dispersions of the Spirit of Ra, Planet
Arts, 100324, 2005.
2005

"Bitter Sweet," for Jabbo Ware's Me We and Them Orchestra. 2004

Ahmed Abdullah's Diaspora, Milan. 2004

Butch Morris Orchestra, Vision Festival. 2004

Katy Roberts, Maine International Film Festival. 2004

Live at the Archipel, Katy Roberts Septet, 2004. 2004

"Horace T and Melanie's Dance" for Kuumba Frank Lacy's Vibe Tribe. 2003

Artistic Director for "A Day for Dexter" at the Miller Theatre Featuring the Barry Haris Trio, Frank Wess, and Salim Washington's Harlem Art Ensemble.
2002

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

"Race and Academia in Jazz," roundtable at the Rose Room, Lincoln Center, New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"The Role of Race in Jazz Education," Paper delivered for Lewis Porter's graduate program in jazz studies at Rutgers University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

Lecture delivered on Hip Hop music, at Rikers Island jail. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005

"Coleman Hawkins' Musical Legacy," Body and Soul: A Symposium and Exhibit Honoring the 100th Birthday of Coleman Hawkins, Columbia University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

"Coltrane Dialogues," with Carl Grubbs, The Roost, Amesbury, MA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

"Coltrane's Spiritual Ethos," paper delivered for the Conversations series at the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

Baraka's Tropes of Coltrane Criticism, Amiri Baraka's Blues People: 40 Years later, a symposium on jazz criticism and the music, Sarah Lawrence College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

"First Came a Woman: Abbey Lincoln's Compositional Development," American Studies Association, Hartford. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2003