DAVID CHEVAN Music
CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:
I manoscritti di Louis Armstrong depositati al copyright, chapter in Il Secolo di Louis Armstrong: Nuovo studi e ricerche nel centenario della nascita (1901-2001), Stafno Zenni, ed., Luciano Vanni editore, 2001, pp. 11-69.
"The Duvivier Style: Technical Analysis." In Bassically Speaking: An Oral History of George Duvivier, by Edward Berger, Studies in Jazz, No. 17, Institute of Jazz Studies Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey and Scarecrow Press, 1993.
JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
“Musical Literacy and Jazz Musicians in the
1910s and 1920s,” in Current Musicology, number 71-73/spring 2001-spring 2002,
(published 2003)
“Adapting Jazz For The Shabbat Service” in
Koleinu, Bulletin of the American Conference of Cantors, February,
4,6.
“Mid-East Scales Provoke Western Fears” in
JazzTimes Magazine, December 2001
"Riverboat Music from St. Louis and the Streckfus Steamboat Line." Black Music Research Journal 9:2 (1989): 153-180.
"The Development of the Double Bass as a Solo Instrument." The Black Perspective in Music 17 (1989): 73-92.
EXHIBITS/SHOWS/PERFORMANCES OF CREATIVE WORKS:
I have been touring the country giving concerts of sacred music with pianist Warren Byrd and The Afro-Semitic Experience since 1998.
The
following is a partial list of major concerts and performances of 2003-2004
academic year:
Sunday,
October 12, 2003, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo,
Avadim Hayinu, Stony Point Center Conference on Jazz and the Church, 17
Crickettown Road, Stony Point, NY, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday,
November 13, at
8:00 p.m. the AFRO-SEMITIC
EXPERIENCE, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Saturday,
November 22,
at 7:00 p.m. the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE
with Yossi Chajes, Cantor Shoshana Lash, Diane Orson, Rick Calvert and
Dorothy Goldberg in a Concert for
Peace at Congregation Mishkan Israel, 785 Ridge Road, Hamden,
Connecticut.
Monday,
January 12, 2004 David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo,
Avadim Hayinu, Stony Point Center Conference on Globalization and the Church, 17
Crickettown Road, Stony Point, NY, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday,
January 15,
David Chevan and Warren Byrd
Duo, Avadim Hayinu,
1:00 p.m., Ezra Academy, 75 Rimmon Road, Woodbridge,
Connecticut.
Saturday,
January 17,
the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE celebrates
and commemorates the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 8:00 p.m.
Congregation Anshe Emet, 3780 North Pine Grove, Chicago, Illinois.
Sunday,
January 18,
the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, 4:00
and 7:00 p.m., Lakeside Congregation, Evanston, Illinois.
Friday,
January 23, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim
Hayinu,
interfaith Sabbath service ((6:30 PM, Brandi Recital Hall) and Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. memorial concert (10 pm Rosse Concert Hall), Kenyon College, Gambier,
Ohio, sponsored by the Kenyon College Hillel and Black Student
Union.
Saturday,
January 24,
David Chevan and Warren Byrd
Duo, Avadim Hayinu,
Trinity Episcopal Church, 1 Trinity Plaza, (corner Adams at St. Clair) Toledo,
Ohio
Sunday
February 1,
David Chevan and Warren Byrd
Duo, Avadim Hayinu,
3:00 p.m. the Atrium of the Hartford Pubic Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford,
Connecticut.
Thursday,
February 5,
the AFRO-SEMITIC Power Trio Experience featuring Warren Byrd, Alvin
Carter, Jr., and David Chevan at the Mattatuck Museum, 144 West Main
Street, Waterbury, Connecticut.
Friday, February 6, David Chevan and Warren Byrd
Duo, Avadim Hayinu with
Alvin Benjamin Carter, drums, 7:00 p.m. Black History Month service at Temple Sinai, 1 Engle St., Tenafly, New
Jersey.
Saturday February 7, the AFRO-SEMITIC
EXPERIENCE 8:00 p.m.
at Beth David Synagogue, 20 Dover
Road, West Hartford, Connecticut, 860-236-1241.
Friday,
April 9,
the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE featuring
Warren Byrd and David Chevan, 9:00 p.m., The Brooklyn Academy of Music. A
Freedom Seder with the Afro-Semitic Experience: A celebration and commemoration
of Passover, Good Friday and the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin
Luther King. The Brooklyn Academy
of Music is located at 30 Lafayette Street in Brooklyn, 718-636-4100, http://www.bam.org/.
Wednesday,
May 19,
the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE 8:00
p.m. at the Greater New Haven Jewish Community Center, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge,
Connecticut.
RECORDINGS:
2003 The Days of Awe, David Chevan with Frank London and The Afro-Semitic Experience, Reckless DC Music, RMCD-1051, CD of original arrangements of traditional High Holy Day music
2003 In A Mellow Tone, Rex Cadwallader, David Chevan, and Jesse Hameen II, CCH Music 20031
2002 This is the Afro-Semitic
Experience, David Chevan and Warren Byrd, Reckless DC Music,
RMCD-1050
2000 Let Us Break Bread Together,
David Chevan and Warren Byrd, Reckless DC Music, RMCD-1049
2000 The Art of Trio, David Chevan
and Rex Cadwallader with Ali Ryerson, Giacomo Gates, Stacy Phillips, Jim Fryer,
and Tim Moran, Reckless DC Music, RMCD-1048
1999 Imagination, Ron Braggs with
Bassology, Reckless DC Music, RMCD-1040
1999 Repartee, Rex Cadwallader and
David Chevan, Stanza USA, ST 3405
1998 Avadim Hayinu, David Chevan and
Warren Byrd, Reckless DC Music, RMCD-1031
1998 The Feeling that I Get,
Bassology, Reckless DC Music, RMCD-1024
1998 Wintertide, Michael
Branden, Hayloft Records, CD 33040
BOOK REVIEWS (total #): 2
(also feature latest):
Review of Hot Man: The Life of Art Hodes, by Art Hodes and Chadwick Hansen, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992, in The Sonneck Society Bulletin 19:2 (Summer 1993): 33-34.
CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:
"Copyright Deposits of King Oliver and his Circle ca. 1923." Sonneck Society of American Music Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 1996.
"Benefits of Copyright Deposits for Jazz Research." Jazz Research Roundtable, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, 1996.
"Louis Armstrong as Composer." Louis Armstrong: Perspectives on an Innovator symposium sponsored by the Queens Museum of Art, NY, 1994.
"Doctored Stock Arrangements From Robichaux Orchestra Band Book." Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Minneapolis, MN, Spring 1994.
"Notated Manuscripts From the John Robichaux Orchestra Band Book." Meeting of the Greater New York Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Spring 1994.
"Notated Manuscripts and Doctored Stock Arrangements From the John Robichaux Orchestra Band Book." Sonneck Society of American Music Annual Meeting, Worcester, MA, 1994.
"Bull Fiddle Blues: Bass Solos from Early Jazz through the Swing Era." "For JAZZ," a free concert and lecture/demonstration series, part of the Jazz exhibition, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 1993.
"Riverboat Musicians and Chicago." Center for Black Music Research National Conference on Black Music Research, Chicago, IL, 1991.
"Riverboat Music from St. Louis and the Streckfus Steamboat Line." Center for Black Music Research National Conference on Black Music Research, St. Louis, MO, 1989.
"The Hands of Fate: Fate Marable and the Development of Jazz." Sonneck Society of American Music Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, 1989.
"The Development of the Double Bass as a Solo Instrument in Early Jazz." International Society of Bassists, Los Angeles, 1988.
“Merging Jazz
with Jewish Worship Service: An Afro-Semitic Experience” at the 2003 Conference
of the American Conference of Cantors, New York, July 3, 2003
RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL (use keywords):
African-American Music; Jazz; American Music, Afro-Semitic, Cantorial music, Jewish Music History
CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:
I am currently working with my ongoing project, The Afro-Semitic Experience, where we explore and intersect the music of the Jewish and African diasporas.
In addition, I have been developing a musical program of contemporary instrumental interpretations of 19th century cantorial music.
DISSERTATION TITLE:
Written Music in Early Jazz
INSTITUTION REVIEWING PH.D.:
City University of New York