Two University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ graduate students are among a handful of young American music scholars selected to participate in separate, prestigious jazz studies programs in New York City and Washington, D.C. Kurtis Adams and Kevin Woods, who study in the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ College of Music's jazz studies program, also are good friends who have collaborated on their first professional recording, "Ballad of the West." The jazz CD, which features performances by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ professors Pat Bianchi on organ and Paul Romaine on drums, will be released on April 1.