Thomas W. Jacobsen
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Thomas W. Jacobsen

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I am a retired university professor (Professor Emeritus) at Indiana University-Bloomington), where I taught for 26 years. I have also taught at Vanderbilt University, Tulane University, and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece. My research field in my "former life" was the prehistoric archaeology of Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean. I excavated in Greece from 1962 to 1992, directing the excavations at Franchthi Cave from 1967 to 1995. From those excavations, a dozen volumes of reports were published by Indiana University Press beginning in 1987. Since retirement from Indiana, I moved to New Orleans in 1992 (having served as a visiting professor at Tulane in 1988-89). Living in New Orleans rekindled my life-long interest in jazz music. (I had played clarinet and tenor saxophone in jazz bands since my teenage years.) I soon became deeply involved in the local music scene and began writing regular columns and feature articles in national jazz magazines (e.g. The Mississippi Rag, The Clarinet) along with articles and reviews in other local and national media. Ultimately, I wrote three books on the subject--the most recent just appearing this spring (2016). In short, jazz has replaced archaeology as my dominant research interest for nearly a quarter century now. My wife and I moved to St. Louis in the fall of 2014 to be near our daughter, son-in-law, and two youngest grandchildren. The Gateway City is quite different from the Crescent City, yet they are closely connected musically by Old Man River. At some point, perhaps, I will explore more fully the musical connections between St. Louis and New Orleans from the last century down to the present day. Many fine St. Louis musicians have adopted New Orleans as their home in recent decades.
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