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A Merger In Jazz Education
By
ED HAMILTON,
Published: July 23, 2011
Ed Hamilton
He has met and interviewed the greatest musicians and singers of all modern timesBurrell concurs, "Jazz is a serious, world-respected art form, one of the major gifts from the United States to the world, and it should have all the serious attention that other forms of music have and I'm certainly glad to be a part of all that jazz."
It was Edward Duke Ellington who had the very first college jazz concert at UCLA in 1936, and it was Kenny Burrell who brought jazz studies to UCLA with his creation of "Ellingtonia," taking the university into the forefront of jazz education in this new millennium.
