Guggenheim Grants Fellowship to Mike Heffley
Writer and composer Mike Heffley, author of the acclaimed Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe's Reinvention of Jazz, has been named one of this year's recipients of a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
The award will enable Heffley to devote time and attention to "the folkloric and the radical in new and improvised music." His previous research on the pan-Eurasian musical revolution in jazz issued in the pioneering book Northern Sun, Southern Moon, which was named one of the best jazz books of the year in "New York's Best of 2005" (AllAboutJazz.com).Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe's Reinvention of Jazz (Yale University Press, 2005).
The Music of Anthony Braxton (Greenwood, 1996).
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