Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Ph.D.
Guest Speaker

• Curator, Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University, has a Ph.D. in History from Tulane and is a specialist on the history of New Orleans jazz and jazz historiography. He is the author of New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History (University of Michigan Press, 2009). Other publications include “Stars of David and Sons of Sicily: Constellations Beyond the Canon in Early New Orleans Jazz,” Jazz Perspectives, 3/2 (August 2009), 123-152; “‘They’re Tryin’ to Wash Us Away’: New Orleans Musicians Surviving Katrina,” The Journal of American History, 94/3 (December 2007); “Early New Orleans Jazz in Theaters,” Louisiana History, 43/1 (Winter 2002);  and “King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, and Sidney Bechet:  Ménage à Trois, New Orleans Style,” in The Oxford Companion to Jazz, ed. Bill Kirchner (Oxford University Press, 2000). He has also served as an historical consultant for various media projects, including “Ken Burns’ Jazz” (PBS, 2001), Blackside Films; “I’ll Make Me a World:  A Century of African-American Arts” (PBS, 1999), and Joe Lauro and Don McGlyn’s “Louis Prima--The Wildest” (2000).  In addition, Dr. Raeburn has worked as a cast member of the popular New Orleans radio series “Crescent City” produced by WWNO and as a drummer in New Orleans for the past forty years, performing and recording with artists such as James Booker, Earl King, Clark Vreeland, Shot Down in Equador, Jr., and The Pfister Sisters. He is the son of the big band leader Boyd Raeburn and jazz vocalist Ginnie Powell.