Jazz Studies
Because New Orleans brought the world Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, the Marsalis family, and Harry Connick, Jr., it is only natural that a jazz studies program would begin in this jazz-rich city. Loyola was the first university in New Orleans to establish the bachelor of music in jazz studies degree. The College of Music and Fine Arts provides students with the opportunity to study the development of jazz and participate in its continued growth, while still focusing on traditional musical and rigorous academic studies.
The jazz studies program is professionally oriented and designed for brass, woodwind, and rhythm section instrumentalists. The resident Faculty Jazz Ensemble features professionals who have extensive backgrounds and continue to be active in the jazz and commercial fields. Guest artists of international reputation perform with students and conduct master classes during the annual Loyola University Jazz Ensemble Festival. The award-winning Loyola Jazz Band has been invited to perform at numerous festivals including the Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. More reciently, the Loyola Jazz Band won the M.E. "Gene" Hall Award for best collegiate jazz big band at the 2007 North Texas Jazz Festival.
Coordinator: John Mahoney
E-mail: mahoney@loyno.edu
Loyola University New Orleans
College of Music
Communications/Music Complex, Room 245, Campus Box 8
Phone: (504) 865-2164
Fax: (504) 865-2852
