Last May, music students at Northwestern University took to the streets to protest the school's suspension of its jazz studies degree program.
They organized on the Internet too, launching a feisty Web site to decry what they saw as the beginning of the end of jazz on the sprawling Evanston campus.
Little did they know, however, that a seemingly moribund program -- which had educated no less than singer-pianist Patricia Barber, trumpeter Orbert Davis and guitarist John Moulder, among others -- was about to be reborn.
Or at least it appears that way from a remarkable development Northwestern's School of Music announced last week: the hiring of one of the country's most admired jazz musicians and accomplished educators as director of jazz studies and professor of music.
Though clarinetist-saxophonist Victor Goines may not be a household name (not yet, anyway), in jazz he holds a unique position, in that he has played a pivotal role in both the Wynton Marsalis Septet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since 1993 and created the jazz studies program at The Juilliard School in Manhattan, in 2000.
They organized on the Internet too, launching a feisty Web site to decry what they saw as the beginning of the end of jazz on the sprawling Evanston campus.
Little did they know, however, that a seemingly moribund program -- which had educated no less than singer-pianist Patricia Barber, trumpeter Orbert Davis and guitarist John Moulder, among others -- was about to be reborn.
Or at least it appears that way from a remarkable development Northwestern's School of Music announced last week: the hiring of one of the country's most admired jazz musicians and accomplished educators as director of jazz studies and professor of music.
Though clarinetist-saxophonist Victor Goines may not be a household name (not yet, anyway), in jazz he holds a unique position, in that he has played a pivotal role in both the Wynton Marsalis Septet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since 1993 and created the jazz studies program at The Juilliard School in Manhattan, in 2000.
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