Krin Gabbard retired after thirty-three years of teaching at Stony Brook University, and he now teaches in the jazz studies program at Columbia University. His previous books include "Hotter than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture" and "Jammin at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema". He lives in New York City with his wife, Paula, and he is busy playing his trumpet and writing a memoir about his parents.