JAZZ NOW!
A Showcase of New Talent

New School Jazz Program Benefit at Birdland Jazz Club on
Monday, December 9, 6:30 – 10:30 p.m.

(New York, NY – October 11, 2002) New School University Jazz & Contemporary Music Program presents outstanding students and their mentors at Birdland Jazz Club, 315 West 44th Street, NYC, on Monday, December 9, 2002 from 6:30 – 10:30 p.m. The evening will showcase the most outstanding young artists from the Jazz Program at New School University, as they perform alongside the masters and mentors of the music.

Jazz artists expected to perform include: Joanne Brackeen, piano; Jane Ira Bloom, saxophone; Cecil Bridgewater, trumpet; Andrew Cyrille, drums; Jesse Davis, saxophone; Jamey Haddad, percussion; Howard Johnson, tuba; Joe Lovano, saxophone; and Reggie Workman, bass.

Proceeds from Jazz Now! benefit the scholarship fund of New School University's Jazz & Contemporary Music Program. Jazz Now! will feature the Jazz Program's most gifted students while raising scholarships to support young artists in the Program. The event is supported in part by a generous gift from HIP of New York City.

Tickets are available at $150 ($80 tax-deductible), which includes drinks, dinner and the performance. To purchase tickets by phone, call 212-229-5662, ext. 250. To purchase tickets by mail, send check payable to Jazz & Contemporary Music Program and return to Jazz Now! Showcase, Office of Special Events, New School University, 55 West 13th Street, 7th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10011.

For more information on New School University's Jazz & Contemporary Program, call 212-229-5896 or visit www.newschool.edu/jazz.

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New School University's Jazz and Contemporary Music Program offers a B.F.A. degree program in Jazz Performance, and in Composing and Arranging. The faculty includes such renowned artists as Reggie Workman, Chico Hamilton, Buster Williams, Jimmy Owens, Benny Powell, Joanne Brackeen, and Jane Ira Bloom. Alumni of the program include many of today's most prominent jazz artists - Larry Goldings, Brad Mehldau, Roy Hargrove, Miri Ben-Ari, Peter Bernstein, Ali M. Jackson, and Virginia Mayhew, among others. Martin Mueller is the Executive Director of the Jazz Program. To find out about upcoming events and performances, visit www.newschool.edu/jazz.

New School University, with 7,000 matriculated students and 25,000 continuing education students, is a New York City university committed to critical scholarship, artistic integrity, and ethical responsibility in the social sciences, humanities, the arts and design. It is comprised of a liberal arts foundation of three schools: The New School, Eugene Lang College and the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, and five professional schools: Parsons School of Design, Mannes College of Music, Actors Studio Drama School, Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, and the Jazz & Contemporary Music Program. New School Online University offers one of the largest selections of online courses in the nation. For further information about admission to New School University, call (877) 5Ave-321 or go to the Web site at www.newschool.edu.