Oberlin Alumni Magazine
John Lewis Talks Jazz
January 24, 2023
Oberlin Alumni Magazine
John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet talks jazz and more in a 1956 radio interview with Jim Neumann ’58, host of “Jazz Hot and Cool!” on WOBC.

Meet Joe Smith
January 24, 2023
Oberlin Alumni Magazine Staff
That was Joe Smith’s approach to making friends and taking photographs, both of which he did prodigiously as an Oberlin College student in the 1980s. Smith ’86, now a computer network...

On the Record with Rhiannon Giddens ’00
January 24, 2023
Oberlin Alumni Magazine
Rhiannon Giddens began 2022 with a starring role in Porgy and Bess, the iconic Gershwin opera often criticized for its derogatory depictions of Black characters. The widely hailed production...

Rhiannon Giddens’ American Tunes
January 24, 2023
Jeff Hagan ’86
A 2000 graduate of Oberlin, Giddens was trained as an opera singer under Marlene Rosen, and so the opera part is easy to understand. But it was after she returned home to North Carolina that she took...

Still Hot, Still Cool
January 24, 2023
Erich Burnett
To some, jazz signaled a decadent departure from the European masters who had inspired the work of conservatory faculty and students for more than a century. But there were also students smitten by...
