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Jazzmobile
Jazzmobile, Inc. is based in New York City. It is a multifaceted outreach organization committed to bringing, jazz, "America's classical music", to the largest possible audience, by producing concerts, festivals, and special events worldwide. The Jazzmobile educational efforts are now being enhanced by the creation of a nonprofit music publishing company and nonprofit recording company.
Concerts are funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and corporate sponsors such as Anheuser-Busch, the ASCAP Foundation, the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, and the Billy Taylor Foundation. Jazzmobile presents, as part of its outdoor concert series, five to ten Afro-Latin/jazz bands on the Jazzmobile's mobile band stage, annually. Jazzmobile is not a membership organization. Using a multi-arts approach (music, dance, drama, poetry, visual, and media arts), Jazzmobile's program is designed to teach and encourage students to express themselves through the creative arts.
Jazzmobile was founded in 1964 by Daphne Arnstein, an arts patron and founder of the Harlem Cultural Council, and Dr. William "Billy" Taylor. Ever since, Jazzmobile has been presenting free outdoor summer mobile concerts, bringing jazz musicians to New York City, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Essex County, New Jersey, Westchester County, and cities in upstate New York.
In the very beginning of Jazzmobile in the 1960s, artists including John Coltrane, Jimmy Heath, Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, and other black players performed. Past students include Warren Benbow (drums), Roy Campbell Jr. (trumpet), Suezenne Fordham (piano), Najee (saxophone), and T. K. Blue (saxophone).
In 1990, Jazzmobile's Tribute Concert for founder Billy Taylor, part of the JVC Jazz Festival, that featured Nancy Wilson, Ahmad Jamal Trio and Terence Blanchard Quintet. Jazz vocalist Lynette Washington in 2005 was 1st Place Winner in the Jazzmobile Anheuser-Busch Jazz Vocal Competition.
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Jazzmobile
Jazzmobile, Inc. is based in New York City. It is a multifaceted outreach organization committed to bringing, jazz, "America's classical music", to the largest possible audience, by producing concerts, festivals, and special events worldwide. The Jazzmobile educational efforts are now being enhanced by the creation of a nonprofit music publishing company and nonprofit recording company.
Concerts are funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and corporate sponsors such as Anheuser-Busch, the ASCAP Foundation, the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, and the Billy Taylor Foundation. Jazzmobile presents, as part of its outdoor concert series, five to ten Afro-Latin/jazz bands on the Jazzmobile's mobile band stage, annually. Jazzmobile is not a membership organization. Using a multi-arts approach (music, dance, drama, poetry, visual, and media arts), Jazzmobile's program is designed to teach and encourage students to express themselves through the creative arts.
Jazzmobile was founded in 1964 by Daphne Arnstein, an arts patron and founder of the Harlem Cultural Council, and Dr. William "Billy" Taylor. Ever since, Jazzmobile has been presenting free outdoor summer mobile concerts, bringing jazz musicians to New York City, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Essex County, New Jersey, Westchester County, and cities in upstate New York.
In the very beginning of Jazzmobile in the 1960s, artists including John Coltrane, Jimmy Heath, Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, and other black players performed. Past students include Warren Benbow (drums), Roy Campbell Jr. (trumpet), Suezenne Fordham (piano), Najee (saxophone), and T. K. Blue (saxophone).
In 1990, Jazzmobile's Tribute Concert for founder Billy Taylor, part of the JVC Jazz Festival, that featured Nancy Wilson, Ahmad Jamal Trio and Terence Blanchard Quintet. Jazz vocalist Lynette Washington in 2005 was 1st Place Winner in the Jazzmobile Anheuser-Busch Jazz Vocal Competition.