Author: Thomas W. Jacobsen

Thomas W. Jacobsen received his doctoral degree in classical archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania and is professor emeritus at Indiana University. He taught at Vanderbilt University and has been a visiting professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece, and Tulane University. Jacobsen, a resident of New Orleans for the last two decades, has published extensively on New Orleans jazz in The Mississippi Rag and The Clarinet magazine among several other jazz periodicals.