May/June 2009
Cover Story
The Jazzman Testifies
Robert G. O’Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature, founder of Columbia’s Center for Jazz Studies and a musician at heart.By Jamie Katz ’72
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Features
Five Alumni Honored at John Jay Awards Dinner
Five alumni were honored for their distinguished professional achievements on March 10 at the 2009 John Jay Awards Dinner.
Perez Races to the Show
Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Fernando Perez ’04 ran hard for the team and helped secure the 2008 American League Championship.
By Joshua Robinson ’08
Monsieur Watteau Paints a Shopsign
In this excerpt from Jed Perl ’72’s Antoine’s Alphabet: Watteau and His World, the author discusses the complex art of the buy as shown in Gersaint’s Shopsign.
By Jed Perl ’72