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The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance will open its doors on the UCLA campus in summer 2012, with the first class of graduate students beginning instruction in fall 2012.
One of the Institute's earliest goals was to create a unique college-level jazz program where the masters of jazz could pass on their expertise to the next generation of jazz musicians the way Thelonious Monk had done in his Manhattan apartment throughout the '50s and '60s. In September 1995, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance was launched and the first class of seven students began their intensive training with some of the world's greatest musicians.
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