The Educators: Episode Two: Professor Unsworth

Javier Cortez, Editor • May 19, 2018

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The Guest: Professor Erik Unsworth, Director of UTEP’s Jazz Ensemble Two and Guitar Division String Bass/Electric Bass at the University of Texas at El Paso in the Department of Music.

The Host: Javier Cortez, a senior multimedia journalism major at UTEP.

The Episode: In Episode Two, Professor Unworth and I discuss how he teaches Jazz to non-music students, Jazz in an academic sense, the essential players throughout history, how the art form is portrayed in contemporary media, and his beginnings as a Jazz musician in New York.

About the Contributor

Javier Cortez, Staff Reporter

Javier Cortez is a staff reporter for The Prospector. He is a senior multimedia journalism major, with a minor in English Rhetoric. Javier was born and raised in El Paso, TX and before coming to UTEP in the summer of 2012, he graduated from Irvin High School, where he was a four-year varsity tennis player, a member of student council and a class officer for his graduating class. He has also worked for the El Paso Diablos as a sports information intern on their media relations team. In his spare time, Javier loves to write columns for the perspectives section in the school newspaper—whether it is sports, pop culture, religion, and society he loves to write about it. To go along with writing, Javier loves reading anything about sports, religion, and non-fiction.