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All That Jazz

9/14/2018 by : Franklin Crawford , Cornell Alumni Magazine

More than 50 years after the first ever purely jazz program headlined by Dizzy Gillespie and his 18-piece orchestra made an impression on Vincent Rogers '49 and fellow jazz enthusiasts at Cornell, the visit by Wynton Marsalis to Cornell last spring had a similar impact on this generation of young musicians.

A Cornell Alumni Magazine story discusses the history of jazz at Cornell, and the musicians who've passed through.