Marc T. Gaspard Bolin
Performer/Scholar
musician, jazz scholar, photographer, filmmaker
Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles:
Jazz in American Culture Dept. of Ethnomusicology) and
Jazz and the Political Imagination (Dept. of African American Studies)
Lecturer at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Tuba/Euphonium Studio, Ethnomusicology: History, Theory, and Methods, and World of Music (Music Department)
about Marc
Performer
Studio recordings, soundtrack recordings, live concerts, television appearances, radio jockeying and on-air guesting, and more…
Arranger
Commissions for three-part horn section, big band, wind ensemble, and orchestral formats in a variety of styles, from "pop" to rock, to R&B, to salsa, and jazz…
SCHOLAR
My work as an ethnomusicologist is grounded in my own jazz practice and deeply informed by my collaborators. I am a Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, where I teach Jazz in American Culture (50A+B), Women in Jazz, and Introduction to Ethnomusicology.
Duke Ellington’s
Queenie Pie
In the early fall of 2007, Marc received a commission to complete Duke Ellington's unfinished opera Queenie Pie by Oakland Opera Theater. Marc’s influence continues today in this much loved production.
highlights
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology, UCLA
M.A. in Ethnomusicology, UCLA
M.M. in Tuba Performance, UCLA
B.M. in Tuba and Trombone Performance, UCLA
Teaching Postitions
Lecturer (2022 - present) Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA Jazz in American Culture, Women in Jazz, Introduction to Ethnomusicology 101
Adjunct Instructor, Longy School of Music of Bard College, Los Angeles, CA (2021; Spring term) 5-week Social Justice Music Research Project/Ethnomusicology Module Master of Music in Music Education Program
Principal Lecturer, Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA (2017; Spring term) Ellingtonia
awards
Claudia Mitchell-Kernan Award
Contributions to Scholarship and Education in the Field of Jazz
Name Included on the SFJAZZ Center's Franklin Street Wall
In Recognition of Contribution to the San Francisco Jazz Community
presentations
"The Congo Square Ideology: Congo Square is, not was" Annual Meeting of the Society for American Music, Minneapolis, MN, 2023
"The New Orleans Second Line: A Tradition on the Move," seventh Rhythm Changes Conference, Jazz Then & Now, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2022
“Black Mardi Gras Indians: Their History, Musical Influence, and Audio Legacy,” Annual Meeting of the Society for American Music, Tucson, AZ, 2022
My Brother’s Keeper (ethnographic film)
Selected for participation at the MAAM Film Festival, National Museum of Anthropology Madrid, Spain, 2021
Selected for screening at ETNOFF 7, Skopje, Macedonia, 2021
“Queenie Pie, Ellington and Colorism”
Panel discussion, CONNECT Series, Lexington Philharmonic Society, 2021