During his 33-year tenure as curator of American music at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, John Edward Hasse curated exhibitions on Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Ray Charles. He also founded the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and Jazz Appreciation Month. His books include Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington, Discover Jazz (co-author), and Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (co-author). He is a contributor to The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and eight encyclopedias.
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Within the arts community, longtime U.S. Congressman John Conyers, who passed away on October 27 at the age of 90, was regarded as one of … Read More “John Edward Hasse Remembers U.S. Rep. John Conyers”
