WHAT WE DO
Since
its inception in 1996, Jazz Haven has promoted the culture of
Jazz through unique collaborations with artists, organizations,
schools and other groups. The skill and passion that its Board
members have demonstrated for the culture of jazz encourages a
growing network of organizations and programs that help promote
jazz education as well as jazz as an art form.
With
its beginnings as a series of performances at Artspace,
Jazz Haven incorporated programming -- always in collaboration
with other organizations -- that have included master classes
with visiting artists, concerts featuring internationally and
locally known musicians, including the 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
and 2012 New Haven Jazz Festivals on the New
Haven Green, tributes to late jazz masters, benefits for not-for-profit
organizations, jazz concerts in senior centers,
jazz at Long Wharf Theater, consultation for
programming and technical support of other organizations with
similar missions, and education.
Jazz
Haven has organized and presented Jazz in the parks and other
venues and presented educational programs in the New Haven
Public Schools. Artists who perform at the New Haven
Jazz Festivals also give workshops, master classes and performances
for students at the Neighborhood Music School Summer Jazz Program.
This
year, Jazz Haven produced the 2012
Jazz Festival on the New Haven Green and a newly
expanded JAZZ WEEK in eight New Haven restaurants
and venues, all in collaboration with the City of New
Haven Office of Arts, Culture and Tourism; presented
a series of piano concerts at Shoreline
Piano; produced a series of jazz gigs at Cave
A Vin (a new wine bar in the Goatville neighborhood
of New Haven); offered an eight-week jazz improv session for an
after-school program at the New Haven Public Schools' Betsy
Ross Arts Magnet School and produced a concert series
with St. Thomas's Day
School in New Haven. We also collaborated with Long
Wharf Theatre to promote the very successful month long
run of the play "Satchmo" in the fall
of 2012.
