The Granoff Music Center Colloquium series at Tufts University features Joel LaRue Smith, senior lecturer in the Tufts Department of Music. He will speak on how the intersection of culture, theory and composition open our possibilities for freedom in performance.
Through compositions and performance, Smith reveals how social and musical theories give inspiration to change, definition and innovation within the Black Aesthetic.

Smith has been the director of the Tufts Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Activities at Tufts since 1996. He has performed in the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Caribbean, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and The Whitney Museum; The White House; Symphony Hall in San Francisco and  Boston; and Royal Albert Hall in London.