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Graduate Research Assistant

University of Guelph

The guy in the photo goes by the name 'Jaime'. Born in Nicaragua and now growing his own family in Canada, Jaime is enrolled at the Latin American and Caribbean Studies MA. His thesis focuses on the literary works of Julio Cortazar in regards to the construction of a new Latin America. It was through Cortazar that Jaime was introduced to the Jazz world. As a member of ICASP, Jaime is researching the role of improvisation in Cortazar's works and the sense of temporality and/or alterity that improvisation induces in performers and listeners.

Jaime likes spicy food, black coffee, and playing with his son, Alejandro.

Listening itself, an improvisative act engaged in by everyone, announces a practice of active engagement with the world, where we sift, interpret, store and forget, in parallel with action and fundamentally articulated with it ("Mobilitas Animi" 113).

– George E. Lewis