As an alum of NU, a fan of Chicago and a windmill-tilter for jazz and world music, I felt really good reading this in the Chicago Tribune:
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.
The restored department will be headed by New Orleans native and Lincoln Center vet Victor Goines. I don't know anything about him yet, but it sounds like he's stirred up a lot of excitement in Chicago. The rest of the story HERE.
I thought that Fareed Haque, the most remarkable musician I'm aware of who graduated around my class of 1988, was a jazz grad of Northwestern, but it turns out he studied classical. No surprise when you hear him play.
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