Dr. David Ake

dake@unr.nevada.edu

David Ake, Associate Professor, holds a Ph.D. in musicology and an MA in ethnomusicology from UCLA, as well as degrees in jazz performance from the University of Miami (BM) and California Institute of the Arts (MFA). He authored the highly regarded book Jazz Cultures for the University of California Press, and his articles have appeared in such publications as Jazz Perspectives, American Music, the Journal of Musicological Research, and the Cambridge Companion to Jazz. Among his honors are the Society for American Music’s Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award, the Mousel-Feltner Award for Outstanding Research from the College of Arts and Science at the University of Nevada, Reno, as well as that University’s F. Donald Tibbitts Distinguished Teaching Award. As a pianist, Ake has worked alongside many of today’s outstanding improvising musicians and his playing and compositions appear on a number of recordings, including In Between, his first CD devoted entirely to solo piano, and Once and Again, his fourth release with The Collective.