Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, presented a film program at the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference in New York City in January. The concert documentary, "Joe Williams: A Portrait in Song," was screened for an enthusiastic audience on Saturday, Jan. 13. The late Joe Williams H'89, was filmed in concert with the Count Basie Orchestra in Wellin Hall in September, 1996. Co-presenting with Rowe was the noted jazz film maker, Burrill Crohn, the director of "A Portrait in Song." Norman Simmons, Joe Williams' pianist/music director, and John Levy, Joe's longtime manager, were in attendance. While in New York, Rowe also conducted an interview with author James Lincoln Collier '50.
Rowe also conducted new videotaped interviews with a number of traditional jazz artists, including cornetist Jim Cullum and clarinetist Joe Muranyi, a member of Louis Armstrong's last All Star group. Funding for these interviews was provided by Hamilton's Class of 1956 in memory of their classmate and Alumni All Star member, Emerson Brown.
