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The jazz studies department chose to move this year’s annual Jazz Seminar online due to COVID-19.

Pitt Jazz Seminar features performances, speakers to honor founding figures

By Sona Sharma, For The Pitt News November 4, 2020
Geri Allen and Nathan Davis are the focus of a series of performances and talks at this year’s 50th anniversary celebration of the annual Pitt Jazz Seminar.
Nathan Davis, former professor in Pitt’s department of music and renowned jazz musician, died April 8 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Image via University of Pittsburgh)

Pitt remembers jazz professor Nathan Davis

By Madeline Gavatorta | Staff Writer April 19, 2018

Deane Root can easily recall how often Nathan Davis “worked the phones” to bring jazz studies to higher education. “You know, [like] they talk about members of Congress or lobbyists or other people...

Nathan Davis, former professor in Pitt’s Department of Music and renowned jazz musician, died Monday. (Image via University of Pittsburgh)

Pitt jazz professor dies at 81

By Mackenzie Rodrigues | News Editor April 10, 2018

Nathan Davis, a former professor at Pitt’s department of music and renowned jazz musician, died on Sunday from natural causes. He was 81. Davis came to Pitt in 1969 as the director of the jazz studies...

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