Thelonious Monk jazz program moves from Los Angeles to New Orleans (1 Viewer)

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I know the name and not much else. In the world of jazz, stealing this program away from USC is big news, right?

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Thelonious Monk jazz program moves from Los Angeles to New Orleans
POSTED: 10:55 p.m. EDT, April 2, 2007


NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- One of the jazz world's foremost learning institutions will move here from Los Angeles, and those involved hope it will ensure the genre has a future in the city where it was born.

The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz is relocating its performance program from Los Angeles to New Orleans' Loyola University.

To celebrate the move, jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Wayne Shorter and trumpeter Terence Blanchard joined the program's incoming class and drummer Thelonious Monk Jr., son of the pianist and composer for whom the institute is named, for a performance at Loyola on Monday.

"Jazz can help the re-emergence of New Orleans after the worst natural disaster," Hancock said.

Having the program in New Orleans will help "foster the next generation of jazz greats," he said.

The program, which will be based at Loyola for the next four years, is dedicated to developing musicians who are teachers as well as performers.

"We have finally, finally found our home here in New Orleans," Monk Jr. said.

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To celebrate the move, jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Wayne Shorter and trumpeter Terence Blanchard joined the program's incoming class and drummer Thelonious Monk Jr., son of the pianist and composer for whom the institute is named, for a performance at Loyola on Monday.

was it last monday or one coming up?
 
To celebrate the move, jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Wayne Shorter and trumpeter Terence Blanchard joined the program's incoming class and drummer Thelonious Monk Jr., son of the pianist and composer for whom the institute is named, for a performance at Loyola on Monday.

was it last monday or one coming up?

Ah, I understand your post now. Very cool. Would love to hear how it goes/went.
 

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