Good schools in Chicago (and suburbs) for jazz studies?
DePaul, Elmhurst, Northwestern, Northern Illinois, Columbia. Loyola offers a BA in jazz studies, and they have some amazing faculty members - Anthony Molinaro, Victor Garcia, just to name a couple. What instrument?
Tenor Sax!
Another Chicagoland school is UIC.
Yes. And there’s a lot of overlap of faculty across these schools, not to mention tons of visiting artists. Lots of performance opportunities, thriving jazz scene. A great place to be a student (as long as you don’t mind northern winters).
If you can expand your geography just slightly - Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo has a strong Jazz program
There is also NIU in DeKalb.
Great list above. U.of Chicago has jazz ensembles, part of the undergrad program extracurriculars.
Uchicago is great for composition, at least for grad school. Not so sure about performance program. (And hard as heck to get in, academically!)
UChicago is not a performance program. Their music department site uses the term “performance program” as follows: http://music.uchicago.edu/page/ensembles-and-programs-overview
The ensembles and other performance opportunities are not part of a BM or performance degree but are termed “co-curricular”, which looks, to me, like extra curricular (maybe someone can clarify).
The BA is an academic general music major with a presumably rigorous liberal arts education.
CCPA’s Jazz Program is performance based and they get the students and ensembles out playing at the Jazz Showcase, the oldest jazz club in Chicago right from the start.
I third NIU.