MSU Today with Russ White
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Episode 168
Season 3
MSU jazz professor, Detroit jazz icon elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Conversation Highlights:
(0:28) – How does this honor feel?
(1:17) – When and how did you fall in love with music? It started at the turntable.
(2:50) – Why the bass? Who influenced you? The violin was first.
(4:29) – How and when do you become a Spartan?
(5:48) – Why do you love to teach?
(7:08) – What’s the mission of the MSU Jazz Studies program? “It’s a place to grow mentors.”
(9:03) – Talk about your role directing the college’s diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging efforts.