Jeff Albert is a musician, improviser, and technologist who has been an Associate Professor of Music at Georgia Tech since 2023. He has performed in concerts and festivals in the U.S and throughout Europe, and contributed as a performer, producer, or engineer on over 60 recordings, including the 2017 Grammy winner for Best Traditional Blues Album. He has been named a Rising Star in the DownBeat Critics Poll, and his album Unanimous Sources was named a Top 10 album of 2020 by Jan Garelick in the Boston Globe. In May of 2013, he became the first graduate of the PhD program in Experimental Music and Digital Media at Louisiana State University, where he was a founding member of the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana (LOLs).

Research Interests

Dr. Albert’s current creative and research practice is focused on creating structures for improvised musical performance through variable form pieces. Recent work has explored formal control by members of the ensemble, computer processes, and interaction between the performer(s) and the computer. He is currently working on interactive musical computer agents and exploring the relationships between performers and processes in the presence of an interactive computer agent.

Teaching Interests

Dr. Albert teaches in the undergraduate Fundamentals of Musicianship sequence, Music Recording and Mixing at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and advises graduate research and undergraduate capstone projects. His other teaching interests include improvisation and interaction, jazz performance, performance paradigms for live computer music, and audio production.

Earned Degrees

Ph.D. in Experimental Music and Digital Media,  Louisiana State University, 2013

M.M. in Jazz Studies, University of New Orleans, 2000 

B.M. in Jazz Studies, Loyola University New Orleans 1993 

Select Recent Performances

October 17, 2025: Glass Lights at Atlantique Jazz Festival in Brest, FR at 21h

October 14, 2025: Glass Lights at Le Pèriscope (13 rue Delandine, Lyon, FR 69002) at 21h

October 12, 2025: Glass Lights at Pacific Festival, Maison pour tous, Sotteville-Les-Rouen at 17h

October 10, 2025: Glass Lights at AJMi Jazz Club (4 RUE DES ESC. DE SAINTE-ANNE 84000 AVIGNON) at 20h30.

October 8, 2025: Glass Lights at Pannonica (9 rue Basse Porte 44000 Nantes) at 21h

October 7, 2025: Glass Lights at Confort Moderne (185 rue du Faubourg du Pont-Neuf, 86000 Poitiers) at 20h45

October 6, 2025: Glass Lights at La Dynamo (9 Rue Gabrielle Josserand, 93500 Pantin, France) at 20h30

September 5, 2025: "Is that what I said?" for Improviser and Computer at PdMaxCon25~ at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Il.

August 24, 2025: Quin Kirchner's "Lost Levels" with Jeff Albert, Byron Asher, Christian Dillingham, Brandon Harper, Steve Lands, Sasha Masakowski, Aurora Nealand, and Dan Oestreicher at The Hungry Brain (2319 W. BELMONT AVE, CHICAGO, IL) at 9 pm. Part of Instigation Fest.

May 24, 2025: Mars Williams's "Devil's Whistle" at Constellation (3111 N. Western Ave, Chicago, IL)

May 4, 2025: George Porter Jr. & The Runnin' Pardners at The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Shell Gentilly Stage 2:35 - 3:35 pm.

April 2, 2025: Sonic Ecology featuring guest artist and composer Matthew Burtner with Georgia Tech Faculty and the GT Laptop Orchestra. Presented thanks to an Arts @ Tech Catalyst grant. 7:30pm in the Kendeda Building on the campus of Georgia Tech.

February 13, 2025: Instigation Festival New Orleans The Instigation Orchestra performs Rob Mazurek's "Instigation Scores (For Multiple Instruments): Volume I and II" and Aurora Nealand's "The Book of Communal Howling" at The Broadside (600 N Broad, New Orleans, LA) at 8pm.

Select Discography (pdf)

Publications

Albert, J. "J.B. Remembers J.B. : A System for Dynamic Improvisation Accompaniment". Proceedings of the 49th International Computer Music Conference – ICMC 2024 – Seoul. pdf

THOMPSON, WILLIAM A., and JEFFREY ALBERT. “Baghdad Music Journal: A Soldier’s Move toward Technology in Music.” Leonardo Music Journal, vol. 25, 2015, pp. 68–72. https://doi.org/10.1162/LMJ_a_00938 pdf hosted here

Albert, Jeffrey. “Interactive Musical Partner: A Modular Human/Computer Duo Improvisation System.” Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, Marseille, France. October 17, 2013. paper pdf poster pdf

Albert, J. “Interactive Musical Partner: A Demonstration of Musical Personality Settings for Influencing the Behavior of an Interactive Musical Generation System”. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, vol. 9, no. 5, June 2021, pp. 2-4, doi:10.1609/aiide.v9i5.12641.

Albert, J. "Improvisation as Tool and Intention: Organizational Practices in Laptop Orchestras and Their Effect on Personal Musical Approaches". Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation, vol. 8, no. 1, 2012. https://doi.org/10.21083/csieci.v8i1.1558