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The documentary film Joe Williams: A Portrait in Song, will be screened at the Kirkland Town Library, on Sunday, Oct. 6, at 2 p.m. Monk Rowe, director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, will host the event and provide anecdotes about the creation of the film as well as live music relevant to Williams’ signature song, “Every Day I Have the Blues.” The screening of this rarely shown film is part of the America’s Music Film Series and is free and open to the public.

Composer and pianist Jon Jang will present a series of lectures and a performance during an academic and artistic residency from Monday, Oct. 7, through Friday, Oct. 11. All events are free and open to the public.

Hamilton’s annual Fallcoming will take place on campus Oct. 26 through 29. Among highlights of the weekend will be the dedication of  the Jazz Archive, a Wellin Museum artist's talk and numerous athletic contests. The full schedule is here.

“Swing Jazz” is the theme of the third session in the America’s Music film history screenings and musical performances, sponsored by the Kirkland Town Library (KTL) and Hamilton College’s Burke Library. A jazz performance will take place on Friday, Sept. 27, and related films will be screened on Monday,  Sept. 30 and on Sunday, Oct. 6.  All films and performances are free and open to the public.

Hamilton College presents free jazz and choral music this weekend in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. On Friday, April 12, jazz guitarists Gene Bertoncini and Rick Balestra will present an acoustic concert of jazz standards and music from the great American songbook. On Saturday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m., the Hamilton College Choir performs the home concert of their recently completed Italian Spring Break Tour.

Listening to a short clip of Milt Hinton interview legendary jazz musician Teddy Wilson more than 30 years ago feels as though one is sitting in the room with them as they discuss stories from their lives and careers. This type of easy, free-flowing conversation characterizes many of the 120 interviews conducted over the course of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Jazz Oral History Project. Dan Morgenstern, who worked on the project for its entire life from 1972-1983, presented a lecture on April 8 about the intimate relationship between jazz history and oral tradition.

Dan Morgenstern, eight-time Grammy Award winner and recently retired head of Rutgers University's Institute of Jazz Studies, will present the Couper Phi Beta Kappa Library Lecture on Monday, April 8, at 4 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Taylor Science Center.  Morgenstern will address the changing nature of acquisitions, access and use of jazz archives, tying in to our own Jazz Archive.  His lecture is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College Performing Arts presents jazz bassist Ben Williams and Sound Effect on Saturday, April 6, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive and lecturer in music performance, was an invited presenter at the Jazz Education Network annual conference Jan. 2-5 in Atlanta. Rowe hosted a screening of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive’s film Joe Williams: A Portrait in Song.

Lecturer in Music Performance Jeff Stockham had a role in Steven Spielberg’s movie Lincoln. According to an article in JazFax, Stockham was a member of the U.S. Marine Band that played at a ceremony at which President Lincoln delivered a speech.