Music Monday is a free and open-to-the public monthly concert series hosted by The Forum. Concerts take place in The Forum's ground-floor Atrium on Monday evenings, once a month. RSVP is encouraged. Please visit The Forum's website for the full calendar of events.
The February event will feature players from the vibrant and forward-looking Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program. This on-campus program brings together the many talented and creative jazz players at Columbia University, providing lessons and ensemble practice that incorporate a wide array of stylistic and rhythmic designs. Columbia's strength is its interdisciplinary approach to jazz studies, and the LAJPP is a central part of a larger mission which sees jazz as a music without borders and a mode for integrating scholarly inquiry with innovative teaching and community dialogue.
- Ole Mathisen, saxophone (Director of the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program)
- Chris Washburne, trombone (Chair of the Music Department at Columbia, founder of the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program)
- Paul Bollenback, guitar (sideman with Jeff “Tain” Watts, Stanley Turrentine and many others)
- Ugonna Okegwo, bass (sideman with Tom Harrell, Pharoah Sanders and many others)
- Vince Cherico, drums (member of Arturo O’Farrill’s Grammy 2023 winning orchestra)
