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Article: Dillard university and all that jazz: New Orleans-based HBCU seeks to set itself apart with creation of new jazz institute, orchestra. (Faculty Club).(Institute of Jazz Culture)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
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- January 30, 2003
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The notion simply didn't compute: New Orleans--the birthplace of jazz; producer of jazz greats from Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong to the Marsalis clan; perhaps the only city in America where jazz remains a living cradle-to-grave experience and form of expression--does not have a jazz orchestra.
At least it didn't compute to Dillard University president Dr. Michael Lomax or to Irvin Mayfield, the 25-year-old trumpet wunderkind who has been artist-in-residence at the New Orleans-based historically Black college since September. But fortunately, the pair was in a position to do something about it.
In late December, Dillard announced the creation of the ...