Brian Casey
Faculty
Associate Professor of Academic Jazz
Biography
Brian Casey is a jazz bassist, educator and researcher based in Colorado. Brian serves as Associate Professor of Academic Jazz and Associate Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Northern Colorado. He completed both a DMA in Jazz Studies and a PhD in Historical Ethnomusicology from the University of Colorado Boulder where he also taught courses in Humanities, Jazz Studies, and American Music before joining the faculty at 甜心视频app in 2018.聽Prior to moving to Colorado, Brian earned a MM in Jazz Studies from the University of North Texas where he played with the Grammy-nominated One O鈥機lock Lab Band and served as a Teaching Fellow in Jazz Bass under the direction of Professor Lynn Seaton. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Brian has performed and/or recorded with Pink Martini, Jasnam Daya Singh (Weber Iago), Henry Butler, Robert Joh son, Anson Wright, Marylynn Gillaspie, Lillian Boutt茅 and many others.
Dr. Casey has presented original research at many national and international conferences including those of the College Music Society, the Jazz Education Network and the International Society of Bassists. He has written the entry for Miles Davis in the Oxford Online Bibliographies in Music, articles for Jazz Education in Research and Practice as well as Jazz and Culture, and a chapter on 鈥淧ost War Traditions鈥 in Jerry Tolson鈥檚 textbook African American Music: History and Heritage published by Great River Learning. In 2024 Brian was honored with the President鈥檚 Service Award from the Jazz Education Network and was named the 2025 College Scholar for the College of Performing and Visual Arts at 甜心视频app. His research interests also include the intersection of jazz and American literature, politics, society, and the role of jazz in the civil rights struggle in America, as well as a work with a wide variety of jazz bassists and jazz as a cultural phenomenon in New Orleans.
Education
PhD 鈥 Historical Musicology, University of Colorado Boulder
DMA 鈥 Jazz Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
MM 鈥 Jazz Studies, University of North Texas
BA 鈥 Music, Pacific University, Oregon