Earl Louis Stewart

Dr. Stewart’s Compositional style is built on the cultural foundation of the urban-folk traditions of African-American music dating back to the emancipation of slaves: including spirituals, ragtime, blues, New Orleans jazz, boogie-woogie, swing, be-bop, post-bop, avant-garde jazz, soul, funk, and Neo-soul music. Additionally, Stewart incorporates the rhythmic counterpoint of African and African-derived music styles with Western classical music. His late styles show a very strong interest in baroque contrapuntal resources, which has resulted in the expansion of, and in some cases, the creation of new forms such as double, triple, quadruple, and quintuple jazz fugues, jazz rounds, canonic swings and double and triple canonic swings.