New Haven Jazz Festival Schedule of Performances
New Haven Green

Friday August 8, 2008
5:30 Neighborhood Music School
“Summer Jazz Program” Students Concert

Saturday August 9, 2008
4:00-4:35 New Haven Jazz Orchestra
4:45-5:20 All Star Band
5: 30-6:10 Harold Danko
6:15-6:50 Christian Sands
7:00 -8:00 Wycliffe Gordon Group
8.00-9.00 Winard Harper Group

Sunday August 10, 2008
4:00- 4:35 All Star Band
4:45 -5:20 Jesse Hameen II
5:30- 6:10 Giacomo Gates
6:20-7:10 Insight
7:20-8:10 Wayne Escoffery Group with Carolyn Leonhart

 

2008 NEW HAVEN JAZZ FESTIVAL
Produced by Jazz Haven

As one of the nation’s largest and longest-running outdoor jazz music celebrations, the New Haven Jazz Festival has a rich history of bringing jazz lovers together to enjoy good company and great music.  The Jazz Festival has done more than make music history, and for the past 25 years it has created countless family stories, become a yearly pilgrimage destination, and taught many of us that jazz is a music tradition worth keeping alive.

Jazz was the first really popular American music to be exported to the rest of the world and embraced by all.  With its beginning at the community level, it really is the centerpiece of American music. It also tells us who we are as a people, as jazz borrows so readily from different cultures. It is also representative of American society: as Americans, we are Latino, Black, Asian - we are, most of us this and that, and that is jazz.

Since the New Haven Jazz Festival ceased production in 2007, it has become obvious to Jazz Haven and the New Haven jazz loving community that this beloved festival must resume and continue.

The signature event to begin Jazz Haven’s year-long program “All Jazz is Local: Building Community Through Jazz”, will be the 2008 New Haven Jazz Festival.  This year Jazz Haven has designed a program that will showcase artists who exemplify the link between local and national stages.

Why Jazz Haven?

Jazz Haven, Inc. has a long record of outstanding programming in New Haven and the surrounding communities: successful and ongoing collaborations with schools, community organizations and arts organizations.  The expansion of current programming in this direction is the natural outcome of steady and consistently nurtured growth in all aspects of our non-profit existence.

The New Haven Jazz Festival 2008 will be the first event to promote jazz year round as well as All Great Jazz is Local.



Benefits to the greater New Haven community and the State of Connecticut

Since many of the musicians participating in the New Haven Jazz Festival will be from the Connecticut area the economic return will be very beneficial because their compensation will stay within the state’s community. There will also be larger attendance from family members, their followers and fans as well as the local jazz audience.
Jazz Haven is confident that the New Haven Jazz Festival of 2008, the kickoff for All Great Jazz is Local will be a very successful jazz and community building event.