Jazz at Lincoln Center, which runs one of the world’s largest jazz education program networks, has tapped UNLV to compete in the Jack Rudin Jazz Championship on January 10-11 in New York City. Only nine other colleges were chosen to participate.
A panel of highly regarded jazz leaders, including Ayn Inserto, Camille Thurman, Jeff Hamilton, Randy Brecker and Wynton Marsalis, will judge the competition.
The championship honors Jack Rudin, a staunch supporter of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s mission to educate youth about jazz’s importance as an art form. Rudin was also one of the organization’s first supporters of its monumental Essentially Ellington competition and festival, now in its 27th year.
“In these divided times, our arts exist to call us home to our greatest historic achievements and our highest aspirations,” Marsalis said in a statement.
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