Our guest, Dr. Julie Roth, a practicing neurologist in Providence, RI, professor of medicine at Brown University and eclectic bass performer was great fun to talk to about how we think about music while performing in community music ensembles. We heard about her from a previous guest, Dr. Marvin Wasser because she plays in the Providence Medical Orchestra with him and many other medical professionals. We touched on a variety of topics related to music cognition and how it relates to everyday performance issues for community ensemble musicians. We are looking forward to getting together again for one or more episodes digging deeper into specific topics about music cognition. Stay tuned!! (in other words, make sure to click SUBSCRIBE or FOLLOW so you don’t miss an episode).

Contact information for our guest and the orchestra is: julie_roth@brown.edu

and the website for the orchestra is

https://sites.google.com/brown.edu/pmo/home

As always, we look forward to your comments about our podcast:

info@TownBandBanter.com

Our guest, Dr. Julie Roth, a practicing neurologist in Providence, RI, professor of medicine at Brown University and eclectic bass performer was great fun to talk to about how we think about music while performing in community music ensembles. We heard about her from a previous guest, Dr. Marvin Wasser because she plays in the Providence Medical Orchestra with him and many other medical professionals. We touched on a variety of topics related to music cognition and how it relates to everyday performance issues for community ensemble musicians. We are looking forward to getting together again for one or more episodes digging deeper into specific topics about music cognition. Stay tuned!! (in other words, make sure to click SUBSCRIBE or FOLLOW so you don’t miss an episode).

Contact information for our guest and the orchestra is: julie_roth@brown.edu

and the website for the orchestra is

https://sites.google.com/brown.edu/pmo/home

As always, we look forward to your comments about our podcast:

info@TownBandBanter.com

In a second episode recorded at Lehman College Podcast Studio (special thanks to Steve, our technician) Doc and Dave visited with two of the founders of a fantastic community jazz band in the New York City area, the Library Jazz Band. Nancy Maron is the leader who pulled all of this together as a saxophone player. She had stopped playing after college and a while later joined a community concert band or two and really missed jazz. On top of that, the hole that the pandemic-shut-down created among musicians lead her and a few others to form a new band in 2021. This is a great story about the birth of a band and it’s rapid rise in the region. Nancy plays Alto and Soprano Sax in the band and is busy managing most of the administrative decisions. Rob Sussman is an accomplished trombone performer and arranger who was an original member of the Library Jazz Band. The band is so good, librarians don’t “shush” them!!

Contact: Website libraryjazzband.org

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