Discover Jazz
John Edward Hasse is a music historian, pianist, and award-winning author and record producer.  Since 1984, he has served as Curator of American Music at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, where he founded the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and Jazz Appreciation Month.  He is the author ofBeyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington, and co-producer/co-author of the book-and-six-disc setJazz: The Smithsonian Anthology. Tad Lathrop has authored, produced, or edited more than 50 books on music, includingJazz: The First Centuryand two lauded volumes on the business of music. Lathrop lectures on music and the recording industry at colleges and professional conferences, and is an accomplished guitarist who has performed at numerous venues, including New York’s Blue Note.