Celebrate the musical genius of the Duke! All music lovers welcome! MIST will host the 2nd day of the conference along with the BEYOND CATEGORY AWARDS Champagne brunch on May 22nd at The Restaurant at MIST. Check below for a schedule of the program:

Schedule:

10:00-10:15 > Prelude to a Kiss: Journey Through the Woods > Bob Stewart, Arranger

10:15-10:40 > Robin Bell-Stevens, Keynote, Where are the Women in Jazz?

10:40-11:00 > Satin Dolls:  Ellington’s Musical Tribute to Women featuring DECFA Board Members Antoinette Montague, Ethan Fein, Bob Stewart and Eli Yamin

11:05-12:15 > Jazz and Gender Panel

Rebecca Fulop > “Flirty bird” and a “funny kind of a lawyer”: Intersections of Jazz and Gender in Ellington and Strayhorn’s Anatomy of a Murder Collaboration

Michele Corcella > Anatomy of Anatomy of a Murder

12:20-1:20 > LUNCH BREAK

1:30-4:00 > Perpetually Progressive Collaborations Panel

(David Hajdu, Moderator)

Philippe Baudoin > Aaron Bridgers, Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Ellingtonia in Paris

David Alan Bunn > Duke Ellington and Luther Henderson

Krin Gabbard > “Open Letter to Duke”: Charles Mingus’s Complex History with Duke Ellington

Matthias Heyman > Low Key Lightly: Ellington, Blanton, and Composing the Jazz Bass Revolution

4:10-5:10 > Bill Saxonis > Duke’s Legacy—the Ellington Continuum

5:15-6:00 > Fancies & Fantasies Panel (Herb Boyd, Moderator)

Nate Sloan > After Midnight and the Problem of Representing Ellington’s Cotton Club Years

Daryl Waters (Panelist) Conductor, After Midnight on Broadway

Sunday, May 22nd, 2016

11:30-1:30 > Beyond Category Awards Champagne Brunch

Honoring Carmen de Lavallade with the BEYOND CATEGORY AWARD

(Special acknowledgement of major supporters, including the Paley Center for Media, the National Jazz Museum, The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU, the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU, GlobalEMA, St. Peter’s Church, the NYU Department of Photography and Imaging, and Frits Schjott)