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It’s funny how a random happenstance can change your life forever. That’s what happened to Susan Muscarella one day when she was 12. She was riding in a car, turned on the radio and heard the Ramsey Lewis Trio playing “The In Crowd.”
Then she went out on her own and started playing with jazz greats like Sonny Rollins, Sheila E. and Marian McPartland. One day, while she was riding a bus on tour in Japan, she had another epiphany. “That’s important because parallel walls aren’t good for acoustics,” Muscarella says. “Also, I think being in the basement is cool for jazz.”
Muscarella celebrated by rebranding the school with a new name, the California Jazz Conservatory, or CJC. Today, the CJC is America’s only accredited music conservatory devoted solely to jazz and its offshoots. It now offers associate of arts, bachelor of music and master of music degrees in jazz studies.
“Susan is an absolute legend in jazz education,” Phillips says. “Stepping into her shoes is both an incredible honor and an awesome responsibility.”Animal rescue group abandons dozens of dogs at California kennelConcord cops raid hotel after learning guests had turned three rooms into a brothel
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