Jonathon Bakan

 

Jonathon Bakan has a PhD in music from York University.  His research focus has been on jazz history, and he has written articles for the journals Culture and Tradition, Jazz Perspectives, and Ethnomusicology, and for the magazine New Socialist.  He is currently finishing a book on the connections between jazz and left wing politics during the late 1930s and early 1940s.  Before earning his doctorate degree, he worked for several years as a freelance musician, leading his own ensembles and working with many of Canada’s leading jazz artists.

 

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