California Jazz Conservatory

   The California Jazz Conservatory, previously known as the Jazzschool, is a clandestinely owned non-profit music school for jazz students in Berkeley, California. Established in 1997, the school won certification as a conservatory in early 2014.  It is the one and only American school with a year-round jazz music program.

History

    

    The California Jazz Conservatory was established in 1997 as "Jazzschool" by Susan Muscarella, a jazz pianist who studied with Wilbert Baranco in the 1970s, together with a band, and released a solo album called Rainflowers in 1979. She first trained and then became the director of the Jazz Ensembles program at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1989 she left the Cal music department for personal teaching and professional act, playing at various times with Sheila E, Sonny Rollins, Marlena Shaw, Marian McPartland, and Arturo Sandoval. In 1997 Muscarella acquired an old 1880s residence at 2377 Shattuck Avenue in downtown Berkeley to accommodate the school and an allied cafe called La Note, the latter run by her neighbor, environment designer Dororthée Mitrani-Bell. The California Jazz Conservatory admitted about 130–150 students in its first quarter, trained by some 25 local jazz musicians and educators. By 2001 the school admitted 600 students each quarter. The street-level La Note space was later used by the California Jazz Conservatory after hours as a classroom and performance space seating 60. 

    The California Jazz Conservatory is in the 7,500-square-foot (700 m²) basement of Berkeley's historic Kress building. In 2002 to suit its extension the school shifted to larger accommodations a few blocks away at 2087 Addison Street, leaving the cafe to function separately. The new setting—the basement of the historic S. H. Kress & Co. retail store in the middle of the Downtown Berkeley Arts District—was rebuilt to have 12 rehearsal rooms, 14 classrooms, a 60-seat concert space and a snack shop called Jazzcaffé. The act space was named Hardymon Hall to memorialize Berkeley High School's dynamic jazz educator Phil Hardymon who launched the Berkeley Jazz Project in 1975 for high school students. In January 2002 the opening performance in Hardymon Hall attributed singer Madeline Eastman backed by pianist Frank Martin, bassist Peter Barshay and drummer Vince Lateano. In 2009, the "Jazzschool Institute" began working under the "Jazzschool" umbrella. The Jazzschool institution was a four-year music conservatory providing a Bachelor of Music degree to vocalists and instrumentalists. The Jazzschool Institute was outmoded by the California Jazz Conservatory in late February 2014. 

Faculty

    San Francisco Bay Area musicians who have trained at the California Jazz Conservatory include pianist vocalist Kim Nalley, Taylor Eigsti,  singer Madeline Eastman, violinist and violist Mads Tolling, violinist and arranger Jeremy Cohen of Quartet San Francisco, singer Joe Bagale of Jazz Mafia,  percussionist John Santos of the Machete Ensemble,  flugel hornist Dmitri Matheny,  percussionist and vocalist Edgardo Cambón of Candela , singer Kellye Gray,  saxophonist Anton Schwartz, saxophonist Michael Zilber, horn player Ellen Seeling of Isis pianist Mark Levine,  and guitarist Mimi Fox. 

Scholarship

    California Jazz Conservatory students may be honored scholarships such as the Mark Murphy Vocal Jazz Scholarship first given in 2009. Other developed donation includes the Jamey Aebersold Scholarship and the William E. Robinson Scholarship About 15% of the students is supported financially with a scholarship. In 2012 the Eddie Marshall Scholarship Fund was commenced to honor longtime faculty member Eddie Marshall, a drummer who serviced at the Keystone Korner jazz club in San Francisco's North Beach where he participated behind jazz greats such as Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz and Bobby Hutcherson.

Notable students

    Jazz poet laureate Ishmael Reed got admitted in 1998 at the age of 60 to learn jazz piano. He trained under Muscarella through 2004, and motivated a class for teaching poetry opus intended for music. After his "Jazzschool" period, Reed continual work with pianist Mary Watkins, and in 2007 as the Ishmael Reed Quintet, he produced his debut album called For All We Know on which he leads the band and plays piano.

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Princeton University

   Princeton University is a clandestine Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Established in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton was the fourth licensed institution of higher education in the Thirteen Colonies and thus one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. The institution shifted to Newark in 1747, then to the existing site nine years later, where it was renamed as Princeton University in 1896. Princeton offers undergraduate and graduate instruction in the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and engineering. It provides professional degrees throughout the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Architecture, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Blenheim Center for Finance. The University has secures with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Princeton has the largest donation per student in the United States.

    The University has graduated many well known alumni. It has been allied with 41 Nobel laureates,, the most Abel Prize winners, 17 National Medal of Science winners and Fields Medalists of any university (four and eight, respectively five) National Humanities Medal recipients,  ten Turing Award laureates, 209 Rhodes Scholars, and 126 Marshall Scholars. Two U.S. Presidents, 12 U.S. Supreme Court Justices (3 of whom currently provide service on the court), and abundant living billionaires and foreign heads of state are all counted among Princeton's alumni. Princeton has also graduated many well-known members of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Cabinet, including eight Secretaries of State, three Secretaries of Defense, and two of the past four Chairs of the Federal Reserve. It is constantly ranked as one of the top universities in the world.

History

    New Light Presbyterians was established the College of New Jersey in 1746 in order to train ministers. The college was the academic and religious capital of Scots-Irish America. In 1754, trustees of the College of New Jersey recommended that, in gratitude of Governor's interest, Princeton should be renamed as Belcher College. Gov. Jonathan Belcher stated: "What a hell of name that would be!" In 1756, the college shifted to Princeton, New Jersey. Its habitat in Princeton was Nassau Hall, named after the royal House of Orange-Nassau of William III of England. After the sudden  deaths of Princeton's first five presidents, in 1768  John Witherspoon became president and continued in that office until his death in 1794. During his presidency, Witherspoon altered the college's focus from preparing ministers to preparing a new generation for leadership in the new American nation. To end this, he stiffened academic standards and implored investment in the college. Witherspoon's presidency made up a long period of firmness for the college, interrupted by the American Revolution and particularly the Battle of Princeton, during which British soldiers temporarily occupied Nassau Hall; American forces, led by George Washington, ablaze cannon on the building to hubbub them from it.

    James McCosh took office as the college's president in 1868 and uplifted the institution out of a low period that had been brought by the American Civil War. During his two decades of service, he renovated the curriculum, oversaw development of inquiry into the sciences, and managed the addition of a number of buildings in the High Victorian Gothic style to the campus. McCosh Hall is named in his honor. In 1933, Albert Einstein became a lifetime member at the Institute for Advanced Study dedicated with an office on the Princeton campus. While always sovereign of the university, the Institute for Advanced Study occupied offices in Jones Hall for 6 years, from its inauguration in 1933, until their own college was finished and opened in 1939. This helped start an incorrect notion that it was part of the university, one that has never been completely eliminated.

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Yale University

    Located in New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University is an American private research university. Established in 1701 in Say-brook Colony as the idealistic School, the University is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The school was renamed Yale College in gratitude of a gift from Elihu Yale in 1718. Yale is classified into 12 fundamental schools: the original undergraduate college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and sciences, and ten professional schools. While the university is administrated by the Yale Corporation, each school's faculty runs its curriculum and degree programs. In addition to a central campus in downtown New Haven, the University has athletic facilities in western New Haven, comprising the Yale Bowl, a college grounds in West Haven, Connecticut, and forest and nature conserves all over New England. The university's asset comprises an endowment valued at $25.6 billion as of September 2015, the second largest of any educational institution in the world. Yale College follows a liberal arts curriculum with departmental majors in undergraduates and is categorized into a structure of residential colleges. Almost all faculties teach undergraduate courses, more than 2,000 of which are put forwarded annually. Library of Yale University serves all twelve schools, have more than 15 million numbers and is the third-largest educational library in the United States. Outside of educational studies, students compete as the Yale Bulldogs inter-collegiate in the NCAA Division I Ivy League. Graduates of  Yale has many notable alumni which  includes five U.S Presidents, 19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, heads of state of many foreign countries and 13 living billionaires. Additionally, graduates of Yale include hundreds of members of Congress and high-level U.S. diplomats for e.g.  Ex- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and current Secretary of State John Kerry.  Also, 52 Nobel Laureates, 230 Rhodes Scholars  and 118 Marshall Scholars have been associated with the University.

 History of Yale College

    Yale College which was earlier known as Charter Collegiate School in  October 9, 1701 Yale marked its commencements to "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School,".   The Act was an attempt to create an organization to prepare ministers and place leadership for Connecticut. Shortly afterward, a group of 10 Congregationalist ministers, all alumni of Harvard namely Samuel Andrew, Thomas Buckingham, Israel Chauncy, Samuel Mather, James Noyes, James Pierpont, Abraham Pierson, Noadiah Russell, Joseph Webb and Timothy Woodbrige, met in the study to team their books to form the school's library. James Pierpont as a group leader, the group is now known as "The Founders". 

    Formerly known as the "Collegiate School," the educational organization opened in the home of its earliest rector, Abraham Pierson, in Killing-worth /now Clinton. The school shifted to Say-brook, and then Wethersfield. In 1716 the college shifted to New Haven, Connecticut. Yale College granted First diploma award to Nathaniel Chauncey in 1702.The official name of the university was "The President and Fellows of Yale College, in New Haven" until 1887. Under an act passed by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1887, Yale got the name of "Yale University."  

    Yale developed gradually, launching the Yale Yale school of Medicine in1810, Yale Divinity School in 1822, Yale Law School in 1843, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1847, the Sheffield Scientific School in 1847 and the Yale school of Fine Arts in1869. As the college maintained to develop under the presidency of Timothy Dwight V, Yale College was renamed Yale University in 1887. The university later added the Yale School of MusicYale School of Music in 1894, the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the Yale School of Public Health in 1915, the Yale School of Nursing in 1923, the Yale School of Drama in1955, the Yale Physician Associate Program in1973 and the Yale School of Management in1976. It also reorganized its liaison with the Sheffield Scientific School. Yale and Peking University (PKU) founded a Joint Undergraduate Program in Beijing, an switch over program permitting Yale students to spend a semester living and studying with PKU honor students in 2006 but the Peking University-Yale University Program stopped due to weak involvement in July 2012.

    The Boston Globe once wrote "if there's one school that can lay claim to educating the nation's top national leaders over the past three decades, it's Yale." Yalealumni were embodied on the Democratic or Republican ticket in every U.S. Presidential election between 1972 and 2004. Some of the  Yale-educated Presidents since the end of the Vietnam War areGerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton George W. Bush, and major-party nominees. During 1988 presidential election,George H.W. Bush ridiculed Michael Dukakis for having "foreign-policy views born in Harvard courtyard's boutique". When dared on the difference between Dukakis's Harvard connection and his own Yale background, he said that, unlike Harvard, Yale's reputation was "so disperse, there isn't a character I don't think, in the Yale situation, any representation in it" and said Yale did not distribute Harvard's reputation for "liberalism and elitism". In 2004, Howard Dean declared, "In some ways, I think myself separate from the other three (Yale) candidates of 2004. Yale changed so much between the class of '68 and the class of '71. My class was the first class to have women in it; it was the first class to have a major effort to enlist African Americans. It was an amazing time, and in that span of time is the change of an entire generation".

    In 2009, Ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair chose Yale  for the Tony Blair Faith Foundation's United States Faith and Globalization Initiative. From 2009, Ex-Mexican PresidenErnesto Zedillo is the administrator of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and teaches an undergraduate seminar on "Debating Globalization". From 2009, Ex- presidential candidate and DNC chair Howard Dean teaches a residential college seminar on "Understanding Politics and Politicians." In 2009, an coalition was formed among Yale,University College London, and both schools’ associated hospital to conduct research focused on the direct progress of patient care which is also known as translational medicine. The most ambitious international partnership till date is Yale-NUS College in Singapore to create a new liberal arts college in Asia featuring an innovative curriculum that weaves Western and Asian traditions.

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