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Monk Rowe

Member profile details

Membership level

Associate Members (Individual-nonvoting)

First name

Monk

Last name

Rowe

Jazz Hero

Cannonball Adderley

City

Rochester

Country

United States

Company/Organization

Fillius Jazz Archive/Hamilton College

What we do

We have conducted video interviews with jazz artists of all generations since 1995. Our 500+ sessions are viewable on the Fillius Jazz youtube channel. We also feature current jazz artists at annual college events.

My interests in jazz are:

Classic swing and soul jazz, particularly the Cannonball Adderley Quintet.

More about what I do:

Since 1995 I have been The Joe Williams Director of the Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College, conducting 500+ video interviews with jazz artists. I create and host the podcast Jazz Backstory. I am the author, with Romy Britell, of the book Jazz Tales from Jazz Legends/Oral Histories from the Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College. I have written entries for the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and jazz book reviews for the Association of Recorded Sound Collections. I am an active saxophonist, pianist and composer and have released multiple CDs of original work