Photo by Kevin Reeves

The Kohl Building features a state-of-the-art recording studio and the largest privately held jazz recording collection in the United States. It was designed with the highest environmental building standards in mind; the Bertram and Judith Kohl Building is one of the first music facilities in the world to attain a gold Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating, as developed by the U.S. Green Building Council.

The new building also honors Wendell Logan, professor of African American music and chair of the jazz studies program, who died in 2010.