Internationally renowned jazz clarinetist Kenny Davern, the recipient of an honorary degree from Hamilton in 2000, died Tuesday, Dec. 12. Mr. Davern was a regular visitor to campus each fall, performing during Fallcoming with other jazz legends in an annual concert established by long-time Hamilton trustee and jazz aficionado Milt Fillius '44. Kenny Davern was one of over 250 jazz musicians, arrangers, writers and critics who have been interviewed by Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive at Hamilton, about the history and place of jazz in America. A video excerpt from that interview is available here.
