Lawrence Gushee

Lawrence " Larry " Gushee (* 1931 in Ridley Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American musicologist who among other things is busy with the music of the Middle Ages and early jazz.

Gushee studied at Haverford College, Yale University, the University of Dijon and the Manhattan School of Music. He received his Ph.D. in 1959 at Yale (via a music theorist of the 9th century, "The Musica Disciplina of Aurelian Reomensis: a critical edition and commentory " ) and taught at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Yale and the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, where he is Professor Emeritus today.

Gushee was twice Guggenheim Fellow, once to study in Europe sources of medieval music, one more time for research on early jazz. One of his specialties is the music of the 14th century in France, but he is also considered one of the leading experts on early jazz. In particular, he examined the role of the Creole Jazz Band of Freddie Keppard for the spread of jazz to vaudeville tours in the period 1914-1918, before they settled in Chicago.

Gushee also play traditional jazz and ragtime music as a clarinetist in the " New Golden Rule Orchestra".

Writings

• Pioneers of jazz -the story of the Creole band, Oxford University Press 2005, ISBN 0195161319
• Supplement and publication of the new edition of Lomax "Mr. Jelly Roll - The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, " University of California Press