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John Edward Hasse
Award-Winning Music Historian & Curator Emeritus, the Smithsonian Institution
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One of America’s foremost music historian-educators, Dr. John Edward Hasse helps audiences understand the power music has to move and inspire us to greater heights.
John Edward Hasse is a museum curator, author, speaker, and leader in his field. For the last 32 years, he has served as Curator of American Music at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, where he curated exhibitions on Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Ray Charles, and founded the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and Jazz Appreciation Month, now celebrated in all 50 states and in 40 countries. Recently, he transitioned from Curator to Curator Emeritus—a lifetime honor—at the Smithsonian. He is also a former Chairman of Smithsonian Music.
He is author of an acclaimed biography, Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington, with a Foreword by Wynton Marsalis, and editor of Jazz: The First Century, with Forewords by Quincy Jones and Tony Bennett. Hasse is co-author of Discover Jazz and co-producer/co-author of the Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology. He is a contributor to The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and eight encyclopedias. As an expert on 20th century American music, he has been interviewed in The New York Times, on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR, PBS, CNN, and many other news outlets. Hasse also served as the principal advisor to the U.S. Postal Service on its stamp series Legends of American Music that began with Elvis Presley.
He earned a B.A. Cum Laude from Carleton College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University, two Honorary Doctorates, and a Certificate in Business Administration from The Wharton School. He has received two Grammy Award nominations and two ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for excellence in writing about music. Berklee College has named him their Herb Alpert Scholar-in-Residence for two years in a row, 2017 and 2018. Active in cultural diplomacy for the US State Department, Hasse has lectured on leadership, the arts, and music in 20 countries on six continents.
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Leadership Lessons from the Jazz Masters
Collaborate Creatively to Make Beautiful Music Together
Imagine a World Without Art: Why We Need the Arts More Than Ever
The Triumph of American Music
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John Edward Hasse - Smithsonian American Art - Luce Center - Pop-up Piano Recital
Leadership Lessons from the Jazz Masters - John Edward Hasse
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