JAZZ

Burrell Heading UCLA Program: Jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell has been named director of UCLA’s new Jazz Studies Program, which kicks off this fall. Burrell, known for his solo performances as well as his work with quintets and bands and his collaborations with John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and others, said the new program is “about American culture” and “about us, the people, taking a more serious look at our own culture.” Burrell, who relocated from New York to take the post, has also been appointed a full professor in both the music and the ethnomusicology departments at UCLA.