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Jazz comes home to New Orleans
4 Apr 2007
The regeneration of the city of New Orleans is to receive a boost as one of the world's most esteemed jazz education facilities transfers to the city's Loyola University.
Performance classes for the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, currently based in Los Angeles, will now be taught in the city, announced school chairman and master pianist Herbie Hancock.
'New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz and jazz is what made this city the place we know and love,' he went on.
'We strongly believe that jazz will help the city's re-emergence in the wake of America's worst natural disaster,' the Institute's president Tom Carter added.
Hurricane Katrina caused devastating floods in New Orleans in 2005, killing 1,300 people and forcing more than half the 500,000-strong population to leave their homes.
Mr Hancock said he hoped to 'foster the next generation of jazz greats' in New Orleans, which was chosen over Ivy League universities such as Harvard to host the jazz programme.
The exclusive institute, which admits ten students at most each year, emphasises the value of learning at the knee of the greats.
New Orleans hosts the ten-day annual JazzFest later this month.
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Performance classes for the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, currently based in Los Angeles, will now be taught in the city, announced school chairman and master pianist Herbie Hancock.
'New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz and jazz is what made this city the place we know and love,' he went on.
'We strongly believe that jazz will help the city's re-emergence in the wake of America's worst natural disaster,' the Institute's president Tom Carter added.
Hurricane Katrina caused devastating floods in New Orleans in 2005, killing 1,300 people and forcing more than half the 500,000-strong population to leave their homes.
Mr Hancock said he hoped to 'foster the next generation of jazz greats' in New Orleans, which was chosen over Ivy League universities such as Harvard to host the jazz programme.
The exclusive institute, which admits ten students at most each year, emphasises the value of learning at the knee of the greats.
New Orleans hosts the ten-day annual JazzFest later this month.
© Adfero Ltd
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