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Michael Alfred Tracy receives Fulbright Specialist Award to Kenya at Art of Music Foundation
September 18, 2024 – The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Michael Alfred Tracy of the University of… [read more]
Jazz Alley @ The Paramount Arts Center
July 27, 2024 – Jazz concert at the Paramount Arts Center in Ashland,… [read more]
Mistura de ritmos é a marca do show do saxofonista Michael Tracy
May 17, 2024 – O saxofonista Michael Tracy leva mistura de jazz e música brasileira para show na Casa Thomas… [read more]
Poznan International SaxEvent
December 15, 2023 – Annual celebration of all things… [read more]
Purdue Ft Wayne Jazz Fest Program 2022
January 22, 2022 – … [read more]
Challenges for Higher Education in Arts in Times of Pandemic, Music Edition
December 21, 2021 – Universidad de las Artes (UArtes) Guayaquil,… [read more]
Let’s Jazz! – Clausura del Semestre de los Estados Unidos
December 3, 2021 – Universidad el Bosque (UEB), Bogota, Colombia – December 3,… [read more]
Latin Music Awards Kentucky
September 25, 2021 – I am very honored to be recognized by our Latin music community – “The Award for Outstanding Leadership and Outstanding Contributions to our… [read more]
Latin Music Awards Kentucky
September 25, 2021 – Honored to receive “The Award for Outstanding Leadership and Outstanding Contributions to our Latino music Community in… [read more]
Festival Internacional de Musica em Casa
June 20, 2020 – Sponsored by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Online master class on jazz repertoire presented to participants throughout… [read more]
Maestro del Jazz
October 13, 2019 – Pontifical Universidad Catolica del Peru, October 7-13, 2019 — This week, renowned American saxophonist Mike Tracy will give master classes… [read more]
Maestro del Jazz
October 13, 2019 – Pontifical Universidad Catolica del Peru, October 7-13, 2019 — This week, renowned American saxophonist Mike Tracy will give master… [read more]
All the World’s a Stage This Summer for UofL Students and Faculty.
June 11, 2019 – by Niki King, UofL News – Arts and Humanities — UofL’s School of Music is going worldwide this summer with an especially long list of travel… [read more]
Art Reduces Conflict in the World
June 3, 2019 – InforUArtes (Edición No. 5. June 3, 2019) — Michael Tracy, American musician, saxophonist and educator, gave a master class on… [read more]
Visita de “embaixador do Jazz” dá início a série de Intercâmbios da Fames
March 28, 2019 – A Faculdade de Música do Espírito Santo (Fames) promove hoje, o workshop “A História do… [read more]
Performance at Kexland
July 19, 2018 – Reykjavik,… [read more]
Noche de Jazz: Colombia Y Estados Unidos
March 9, 2018 – … [read more]
To the sound of trumpets and saxophones the Jazz Workshops culminated in El Bosque
March 1, 2018 – To the sound of trumpets and saxophones the Jazz Workshops culminated in El Bosque. Universidad El Bosque, Atre y entretenimiento (Bogota) –… [read more]
UofL Jazz Mike Tracy talks Jazz Fest 2018
February 21, 2018 – by Niki King, UofL News – Arts and Humanities. — The UofL School of Music’s 26th annual Jazz Fest, is Feb. 22-24. As usual, it… [read more]
UofL jazz great Mike Tracy talks Jazz Fest 2018
February 1, 2018 – The UofL School of Music’s 26th annual Jazz Fest, is Feb. 22-24. As usual, it will bring jazz music’s most celebrated names to Louisville… [read more]
Louisville Metro Proclamation – Mike Tracy Day!
October 10, 2017 – I am truly touched to have been given such a recognition by the Mayor and others in my… [read more]
UofL professor practices the ‘art’ of diplomacy
November 29, 2016 – UofL Magazine (Fall 2016) — Mike Tracy, professor and director of the School of Music’s jazz studies program, is what you might call a world… [read more]
Cultural Exchange
October 1, 2016 – by Marty Rosen, Downbeat — THE COMBINATION OF TREMENDOUS musical talent and incredible patience has allowed saxophonist Michael Tracy to… [read more]
WHAS Great Day Live
September 12, 2016 – Fun playing with Gabe… [read more]
Georgian jazz festival pulls in UofL duo
June 27, 2016 – by Marty Rosen, Courier Journal — Late on the second night of this year’s Kavkaz Jazz Festival – a fixture on Tbilisi’s summer arts… [read more]
Kavkaz Jazz Festival 2016 opening night
June 8, 2016 – Opening night… [read more]
The world is a stage for UofL jazz professor
May 28, 2016 – Last week he left for teaching engagements and performances in China, and later this summer he’ll land in the Republic of Georgia and… [read more]
UofL professors teach jazz, spread diplomacy
May 27, 2016 – by Jeffrey Lee Pucket, Courier Journal — Mike Tracy has visited dozens of countries as a music educator, sharing his knowledge of jazz with a… [read more]
UofL professor to teach jazz workshop in Republic of Georgia
May 25, 2016 – Live performance on WHAS 11 Great Day live with Craig… [read more]
China Tour
May 13, 2016 – May 3-13, 2016 – Chengdu, Zhuhai, Guangzhou, Shanghai. Pianist Winton Reynolds and I worked with students, educators, performers and… [read more]
The world is a stage for UofL jazz professor
May 10, 2016 – by Niki King, UofL News — UofL Jazz Professor Michael Tracy has hit the road again. Last week he left for teaching engagements and… [read more]
UofL Jazz Fest brings world renowned jazz artists to Kentucky
February 19, 2016 – WHAS-TV — Performance by Mike Tracy and Andre Gonsalves… [read more]
Bogota, Colombia – Formación Musical de la Universidad El Bosque
November 5, 2015 – My first visit to Colombia and Universidad El Bosque thanks to Javier… [read more]
Paramount Arts Center
June 12, 2015 – JAZZ ALLEY — Fun evening performing a variety of Brazilian styles with an exceptional group. Check out the program and… [read more]
Paramount-Arts-Center
June 12, 2015 – Fun evening performing a variety of Brazilian styles with an exceptional group. Check out the program and… [read more]
2nd ENSAX Saxophone Conference
June 5, 2015 – It was a great pleasure being invited to participate once again in the ENSAX saxophone conference. This was the 2nd meeting and as exciting… [read more]
Concerts: Casa Thomas Jefferson & C’est si Bon – Brasilia, Brazil
March 5, 2015 – Wonderful time playing with master Brazilian musicians – Renato Vasconcellos, piano and Bruno Mangueira, guitar – for my friends at Casa Thomas… [read more]
UofL continues to pull in top-notch talent
February 25, 2015 – Insider Louisville — Jazz students and lovers of the form, take note. The Jamey Aebersold Jazz Studies Program at the University of… [read more]
B-sides: The Mike Tracy Brazilian Ensemble
January 28, 2015 – LEO Weekly – Mike Tracy spoke to LEO just after returning from one of his many trips to Brazil, where he visited friends and soaked in music…. [read more]
WHAS Great Day Live
January 26, 2015 – Interview and performance with the Mike Tracy Brazilian… [read more]
Musical Journey: Polish opera students visit UofL to cllaborate on ‘Don Giovanni.’
January 20, 2014 – Courier-Journal – It all started with messages from a stranger. An American with links to Poland contacted Mike Tracy with concerns about a… [read more]
Italy 2013 – Milano, Taormina
October 12, 2013 – October in Italy (and Sicily) playing music, working with students, seeing old friends, making new ones while visiting the sites….what a… [read more]
Faculty Music Gala Wows Audience
September 9, 2013 – by Natalie Moser, Louisville Cardinal — The University of Louisville’s Twenty-first Annual Faculty Gala Concert was an evening of rich… [read more]
Poland / Czech Republic 2013 (5/2013)
May 31, 2013 – Playing music is a great way to see the world and I have been fortunate to have met many outstanding musicians in far away places. One… [read more]
Brazil 2013 – Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Natal
May 31, 2013 – It is no secret that I love visiting, being in Brazil. I think this is my eleventh visit and it seems like home. I really need to learn… [read more]
Brazil Summer 2013: Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Natal
May 27, 2013 – It is no secret that I love visiting, being in Brazil. I think this is my eleventh visit and it seems like home. I really need to learn… [read more]
Mike Tracy Brazilian Ensemble
May 5, 2013 – Always fun playing music from Brazil and even more enjoyable when performed with young musicians from that… [read more]
Twenty years of jazz
February 20, 2013 – By Martin Z. Kasdan Jr. The University of Louisville’s School of Music is celebrating 20 years of stellar jazzpresentations, and Mike Tracy,… [read more]
Jazz studies at UofL: Why it may be the happiest major on campus
November 21, 2012 – By Simon Isham – Louisville Cardinal — Jazz Studies at U of L may well be the happiest major on campus. When walking by the School of Music,… [read more]
Jazz brings world together at UofL
July 18, 2012 – Jazz students and musicians from around the world gathered at UofL recently when the School of Music hosted the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Workshop…. [read more]
The Sunday Session on Crescent Hill Radio
January 1, 2012 – Guitarist Diego Palma is the host of a weekly jazz radio show – The Sunday Sessions – on the internet radio station Crescent Hill Radio and… [read more]
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
June 24, 2011 – I am fortunate to have had many outstanding students who are helping to spread the work of jazz throughout the world. Anderson Pessoa is one… [read more]
Somethin’ Else: This Weeks Featured Artist. (4/6/2011)
April 6, 2011 – I was recently honored to be featured artist on the Oberlin College and Community Radio (www.wobc.org) Sunday jazz show. Host Aidan Plank… [read more]
Jazz Sinfoncio – Loja, Eucador (3/14 thru 18, 2011)
March 18, 2011 – I was the featured artist with the Loja Symphony Orchestra (LSO) on their first all jazz program – Jazz Sinfoncio. This was a wonderful… [read more]
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
March 12, 2011 – I took the opportunity to work with student at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito during my first visit to Ecuador. It was a great time… [read more]
La Plata Jazz Festival 11va. Edición
November 21, 2010 – The 11th edition of the 2010 La Plata (Argentina) Jazz Festival was an exciting weekend which featured performing group from throughout the… [read more]
Big Rock Jazz Fest
October 3, 2010 – The Mike Tracy Quintet The Mike Tracy Quintet is the headliner for this year’s the Bgi Rock Jaz Fest. The group si acombination of… [read more]
Big Rock Jazz Fest – Fall for Jazz – Wingspan
September 1, 2010 – Louisville Jazz Society Newsletter — The Mike Tracy Jazz Quintet featuring Renato Vasconcellos will perform at a number of fall jazz… [read more]
UofL Open World Jazz Program YouTube video detailing February 2010 visit
March 5, 2010 – … [read more]
Jazz: At the Library Photos from concert for Jazz Arts Foundation, Lexington, Kentucky
February 11, 2010 – Brazilian ensemble featuring Renato Vasconcellos – piano, Chris Fitzgerald – bass, Mike Hyman – drums, and Mike Tracy -… [read more]
Muzenergo Jazz Festival Review in Jazz.ru, Release of #19, 2009
December 31, 2009 – Review of Muzenergo International Jazz Festival by Cyril Moshkov, editor of… [read more]
Rostov-on-the-Don International Jazz Festival
November 30, 2009 – Program cover and text for the 2009 International Jazz Festival -… [read more]
Photos from Russian Tour
November 30, 2009 – … [read more]
Muzenergo Jazz Festival
November 22, 2009 – Performance at the Muzenergo International Jazz Festival – Kimry, Russia – with the Nick Kulikov Quartet – Nick Kulikov… [read more]
Student Jazz Group from Louisville Heads to Russia
November 20, 2009 – by Lee Mergner, JazzTimes.com — For most school bands, hitting the road usually means at best a trip to some school festival or competition or… [read more]
Tools of the Trade JazzTimes 2009-2010
October 7, 2009 – Jazz Education Guide Collected & Edited by Jeff Tamarkin (Sept/Oct 2009) — Top jazz educators choose the resources they can’t teach… [read more]
Jazz Connection: Open World All-Stars
October 5, 2009 – by Scott Yanow, JazzTimes — Russia meets Louisville on this two-CD set with the visitors dominating the music. Four Russian combos, all call… [read more]
Leeds International Jazz Conference Scene & Heard
September 1, 2009 – by Ivor Widdison, Jazz UK (8/2009) Issue 88 — Overview of Leeds International Jazz… [read more]
The Polish-American Ensemble
February 13, 2009 – Kentucky Music Teachers’ Association (Fall 2003) — One often hears that music is the universal language. I have been very fortunate to… [read more]
Jazz Man
February 5, 2009 – WUOL Encore — While rehearsing his student jazz band for an upcoming concert, Mike Tracy looked like a man waiting for a bus. He walked to the… [read more]
Feature Article
February 5, 2009 – Saxophone Journal, Vol. 27 No. 1 — Those who have known Mike Tracy since he was the first student to major in saxophone at the University of… [read more]
Jazz Ambassador. UofL’s Tracy takes music abroad
February 5, 2009 – Courier-Journal — Music professor Mike Tracy was looking forward to having some extra time at home to practice during his sabbatical from the… [read more]
Five Important Questions
February 4, 2009 – LEO Weekly — Mike Tracy really doesn’t fit the jazz player stereotype: shrouded in mystery, behind a veil of cigarette smoke, smooth talking… [read more]
Giant Steps: The Jazz Studies Program at UofL.
February 4, 2009 – UofL Magazine (Spring 2003) — The Jamey Aebersold Jazz Studies Program at U of L has risen like an exhilarating jazz jam. The talented faculty… [read more]
Jam sessions jazz up piece of paradise
February 4, 2009 – The Daily Mercury – Australia — Jamming with one of the greats in a tropical paradise – it sounds like every musician’s… [read more]
Take Five
February 4, 2009 – UofL Magazine — Early in their lives, five Russians heard John Coltrane or Dave Brubeck or Count Basie and got turned on to jazz. Now… [read more]
An Unlikely Symbiotic Relationship – A Unique Jazz Education / Island Resort Partnership
February 4, 2009 – IAJE Jazz Educators Journal… [read more]
If it’s Tuesday, This must be Louisville
February 4, 2009 – UofL Magazine — With an itinerary that rivals the most intensive world tour, five Russian jazz musicians have come to the United States for 15… [read more]
Cuando el jazz se enseña
February 4, 2009 – La Nacion — LA PLATA.- La octavaediciónde La Plata Jazz Festival fueambiciosa en suscontenidos y rica en material… [read more]
World Class Jazz
February 4, 2009 – Courier-Journal — For the past decade, the profile of the University of Louisville’s School of Music has risen steadily among jazz educators,… [read more]
Yaroslavl Jazz Center Unites Russian Musicians, Educators
February 4, 2009 – Downbeat — At first sight, Yaroslavl doesn’t appear to be a jazz hotbed. This Russian industrial town of 600,000 largely eschews the European… [read more]
Jazz Master Chick Corea Jams with Russian Jazz Players Open World article
February 3, 2009 – Imagine the following improbable story line: four young Russian jazz musicians depart from Moscow for their first-ever trip to the United… [read more]
Spreading his love of jazz around the globe
February 3, 2009 – Louisville Cardinal — When Michael Tracy was a teenager, he wanted to be a lawyer. “I was intrigued by the show Perry Mason,” said Tracy. So… [read more]
Relationships and Open World
October 31, 2008 –
Louisville Jazz Society Newsletter
As we look forward to receiving another group of Russian jazz students as part of the Open World… [read more]
Jazz At Hermitage Garden
August 24, 2008 – Moscow television station arts news broadcast Jazz At Hermitage Garden – Review. Jazz Times (8/24/08) Russia has a long, complicated… [read more]
Annone: ottimo il debutto dell’Art & Music
June 27, 2008 – La Provincia — Raffinato ed elegante il suono di Mike Tracy e del Davide Logiri Trio a Villa… [read more]
Jazz Studies in Brazil
March 31, 2008 – Louisville Jazz Society Newsletter — In March 2008, seven faculty members from the University of Louisville Jamey Aebersold Jazz Studies… [read more]
La Plata Jazz Festival (11/6 2007)
November 6, 2007 – Performance at the La Plata (Argentina) Jazz Festival in November with Renato Vasconcellos (piano), David Becker (guitar), Bruce Becker (drums)… [read more]
Una buena idea con escasa repercusión
November 16, 2006 – La Nacion — Ocurre a menudo que una propuesta interesante no tiene el suficiente respaldo en términos de público. En el jazz, especialmente,… [read more]
A Year in Global Jazz
April 1, 2006 – Jazz Educators Journal — As someone who has actively been involved in the jazz education movement for more than 30 years, I have witnessed… [read more]
IASJ Meeting Liebman: University of Louisville
February 28, 2006 – For the 16th meeting of the International Association of Schools of Jazz, we were in the States for the third time at the University of… [read more]
American Cultural Center Enters Fifth Year
February 2, 2006 – St. Petersburg (Russia) Times — … the University of Louisville Jazz Ensemble is giving a free… [read more]
Jazz on Hamilton
October 26, 2005 – The Daily Mercury – Australia — A music professor from Louisville, Kentucky will team up with Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music… [read more]
Australia, Hamilton Island, and Jazz Education
October 1, 2005 – Imagine standing under a swaying palm tree, shading yourself from the blazing tropical sun; a welcome breeze off the ocean, helping to cool the… [read more]
Building a Jazz Education Program from the Ground Up
September 1, 2005 – In Estonia. Louisville Jazz Society… [read more]
Jazz Education in Russia
January 1, 2005 – by Cyril Moshkow,… [read more]
Eastern Europe and all that jazz
December 6, 2004 – University of Louisville News — Say jazz and most Americans immediately think of New Orleans or Chicago — not Russia, Poland or… [read more]
Young and In Love with Jazz
June 30, 2004 – LEO Weekly — New cats negating notions of insider nods and secret… [read more]
Jazz in Estonia
February 4, 2004 – Friends and colleagues gave me the oddest looks when I told them that I was going to Tallinn, Estonia, for ten weeks. Why? To help build a jazz… [read more]
Ten Years of ‘Crazy’ Music
February 19, 2003 – LEO Weekly — I went crazy. You can quote me on that. And you won’t get any arguments from anyone who knows… [read more]
Jazz Workshop and Evening Performance
March 30, 2001 – … [read more]
Quarteto Americano na Thomas
October 22, 1999 – Quarteto de jazz norte americano Mike Tracy Jazz Ensemble se apresenta hoje a amanha na Casa Thomas… [read more]
Preciosidade em Concerto e Workshop
October 22, 1999 – Para alegria de apaixonados por jazz, desembarca em Brasília para duas apresentaçoes e um workshop. o famoso Tracy… [read more]
Jazz em Concerto
November 10, 1998 – Dios/Correio Brasiliense — O saxofonista Michael Tracy é solista do concerto que a Orquestra de Música Popular da Universidade de… [read more]
Cathedral Kicks off Series
October 4, 1997 – Courier-Journal — Denine LeBlanc and Mike Tracy kicked off the Downtown Arts and Music… [read more]
Saxophone and Piano Concert
January 29, 1997 – The Lebanon Enterprise — Saxophone and piano concert is Thursday at Loretto… [read more]
A True Jazz Lover
August 1, 1990 – Louisville Jazz Society — When Mike Tracy was a little boy his father told him, “Whatever you do in life, do something you love, because I… [read more]
Hungering for Jazz
January 1, 1990 – Courier-Journal — Hungarian saxophonist strives to get UofL… [read more]
Jazz Society gears up to move beyond Be-Bop
September 1, 1987 – Courier-Journal — When Gus Coin died last year, he took a little of the Louisville Jazz Society with him. Coin, the society’s tireless… [read more]
Artists in Residence
May 27, 1986 – Courier-Journal — The Kentucky Arts Council Artists-in-Education Residency Program is a continuing program that brings artists into Kentucky… [read more]
Horns of Plenty – Courier-Journal 1985
November 1, 1985 – When you’re hot, you’re hot. And right now jazz is hot in… [read more]
Club Profile – Greenstreet Tavern – Louisville Scene 1985
September 20, 1985 – Located within Howard Johnson’s Hotel, 100 East Jefferson, Greenstreet Tavern has recently abandoned their long-running variety and Top 40… [read more]
Greenstreet Tavern now features live jazz music – 1985
September 12, 1985 – … [read more]
Greenstreet Tavern starts jazzing up its act – The Louisville Skyline 10/30/1985
September 8, 1985 – The Greenstreet Tavern has jazzed up its act. – The Louisville Skyline… [read more]
UofL clinic has students being taught all that jazz – Courier-Journal Cityscape 7/21/1985
July 21, 1985 – The Dave Brubeck Quartet once recorded a fine, melodic composition called “One Moment Worth Years,” a palette of the many hues of… [read more]
Louisville jazzman Mike Tracy is always teaching it or playing it – Courier-Journal 1985
July 10, 1985 – Remember the old 1950’s stereotype of a jazz musician?… [read more]
Jazz
July 7, 1981 – Louisville Times – Two Louisville artists say their music isn’t at home in their hometown now… [read more]
Louisville Jazz
August 24, 1980 – Courier-Journal, 1980 — It’s been around for a while and it’s here to… [read more]