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 and 2010 New
Haven Jazz Festivals on the New Haven Green, tributes to late jazz masters, benefits
for not-for-profit organizations, 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's produced
the 2011 Jazz Festival on the New Haven Green in collaboration with the City
of New Haven Office of Cultural Affairs,
presented the Noah Preminger Quartet with the St.
Paul and St. James Episcopal Church (Olive and Chapel Streets,
New Haven), a offered two
eight-week jazz improv sessions for an after-school program at the New
Haven Public Schools' Betsy
Ross Arts Magnet School. Jazz Haven will produce a concert series
with St. Thomas's Day School in New
Haven this fall.
