In a preliminary report, the Office of the Provost at Columbia
College Chicago has recommended closing the school's Chicago Jazz
Ensemble and Center for Black Music Research.
No other
institution on the planet studies, archives, documents, disseminates,
records and performs music from the vast diaspora of African-American
culture as comprehensively as the Center for Black Music Research. And
precious few ensembles in America regularly perform jazz orchestral
works — historic and brand new — as brilliantly or innovatively as the
Chicago Jazz Ensemble.CHICAGO TRIBUNE
