Keith Waters
watersk@colorado.edu
Imig Music Building N127
303-492-8417
Mailing Address: 301 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0301
Associate Professor of Music Theory
Keith Waters is Associate Professor of Music Theory. His book, The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet 1965-68, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011, and was chosen by Down Beat as one of its Editor’s Picks. He has published articles on topics related to jazz improvisation and analysis in the Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Online, Annual Review of Jazz Studies, Dutch Journal of Music Theory, Current Musicology, and Jazz Player. Together with Henry Martin he is the co-author of Jazz: The First Hundred Years, now in its third edition, and Essentials of Jazz: The First Hundred Years, which was awarded the best first-edition humanities title for 2005 by Thomson Schirmer Publications (and is now in its second edition). He also is the author of Rhythmic and Contrapuntal Structures in the Music of Arthur Honegger (Ashgate Press), and has presented his research at the Sorbonne (Paris), Amsterdam Conservatory (Netherlands), Musikhochschule Winterthur/Zurich (Switzerland), Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel Switzerland), the University of Melbourne (Australia), New England Conservatory of Music, and at national conferences at the Society for Music Theory. He received a PhD in Music Theory from the Eastman School of Music, and a Masters degree in jazz piano from the New England Conservatory of Music. As a jazz pianist, he has performed with James Moody, Eddie Harris, Bobby Hutcherson, Sheila Jordan, and Chris Connor, and has played throughout the United States, Europe, and Russia.