BET on Jazz Sisters in Jazz All-Stars in New York City

The International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) has named the winners of its 4th Annual Sisters in Jazz Collegiate Competition. As the 2001 BET on Jazz Sisters in Jazz Collegiate All-Stars, a sextet of musicians selected from a highly-competitive international pool of women applicants, the group is to perform at the IAJE Conference in New York, New York, USA, January 10-13, 2001, hosted by the New York Hilton & Sheraton Hotels in midtown Manhattan.

The six outstanding students who have been chosen to take part in this year's events are Airelle Besson (trumpet, representing the Conservatoire de Paris, France), Tara Davidson (alto saxophone, from the University of Toronto, Canada), Sandra Hempel (guitar, from Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Laila Biali (piano, from Humber College in Ontario, Canada), Karine Chapdelaine (bass, from McGill University in Montr