Magazine

Writing from the Department of Jazz.

• Symbols, Cymbals, and Pretense

  October 2026. Symbols need entities, humanity needs a [REDACTED]

• Proof of Presence

  October 2026. A technical companion to "Symbols, Cymbals, and Pretense": how to keep a receipt for something that only happens once

• The Proof Ledger

  October 2026. How to check that my work is what I say it is, and was done when I say it was.

• Paper 041: The Dependency Model

  April 2026. The conservatory did not save jazz. It institutionalized the conditions that were killing it.

• Receipt: 0.89, then 0.62

  April 2026

• Paper 050: The Confidence Score Doctrine

  April 2026

• Receipt: The timer, terminated

  April 2026

• Paper 053: The Measurement Tax

  April 2026

• Receipt: "Execute, not merely observe"

  April 2026

• Consider It! - Cole Davis

  October 2025. Label: Totally Gross National Product

• American Cathedrals: An Alphabet

  September 2025. If you would like to study Jazz, the art of spontaneous innovation: Contact@DepartmentOfJazz.com

• Introducing JazzGPT

  September 2025. Artificial intelligence meets music education.

• Cole Davis - Standards Vol. 1

  September 2025. Label: Self-released

• Micah Thomas - Tide

  September 2025. Label: Self-released

• Giveton Gelin - True Design

  September 2025. Label: Self-released

• The Polyvagal Theorem, Jazz, and Cultural Infrastructure

  September 2025

• Post Semantics

  September 2025. Published by The Department of Jazz

• Jazz Ascensionism: A 12-Bar Blues on Art, America, Technology, and Post-Semantics

  September 2025. Published by The Department of Jazz

• Coming soon

  November 2024. Publications by the Department of Jazz.