Todd Bryant Weeks

Todd Bryant Weeks is a freelance writer, jazz historian and labor activist. His first book, "Luck's in My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page," (Routledge, 2008) received a 2009 Honorable Mention for Research in Recorded Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, a national scholarly association. He has received two awards from the International Labor Communications Association for his regular reporting on jazz and labor issues in Allegro, the magazine of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 802. Todd has been published in the Annual Review of Jazz Studies and wrote the chapter on jazz for "Forever Harlem: Celebrating America's Most Diverse Community" (Daily News, L.P. and Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, 2006). He has lectured on jazz and other subjects while teaching with the acclaimed Bard Prison Initiative, and has given presentations and talks at the Institute of Jazz Studies, the Louis Armstrong House Museum, and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. He is currently working on a book about baseball, jazz and boxing in the 1930s. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.