Links To Various Organizations Involving Jazz Music

• American Federation of Jazz Societies  AFJS promotes communication within the jazz community, researches trends which affect jazz and jazz societies, publishes a manual on how to organize and maintain a jazz organization, holds annual meetings, and publishes a newsletter.

• Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation  The Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the general public about the historical significance of Arkansas' musical heritage. It sponsors jazz performances by musicians with Arkansas connections and educational clinics for high school and college musicians throughout the state.

• Canadian International Jazz Convention  Annual event attracting more than 3000 delegates. It features exhibitors, concerts, jazz showcases, and lectures.

• Clifford Brown Jazz Foundation  Promotes jazz as an art form with education and performances. The organization sponsors an instrument loan program, scholarships, workshops and lessons.

• Fort Pierce Jazz Society  Group based north of Palm Beach in Florida offers jam sessions and social interaction for those who love jazz as well as educational opportunities for young people.

• Harlem Jazz Foundation, Inc.  New York State nonprofit international network that seeks to increase, through educational and entertainment activities, the public awareness of the influence of jazz and blues.

• International Association of Jazz Educators  IAJE publishes the Jazz Educators Journal, sponsors an annual conference, produces awards for outstanding artists, provides scholarships, commissions artists and composers, trains teachers, offers workshops, and helps support jazz festivals.

• Jazz at Lincoln Center  New York based organization led by artistic director Wynton Marsalis. Includes recordings, broadcasts and performance schedule for the resident Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, information on guest performers and educational programs, and essays by Stanley Crouch.

• Jazz Composers Collective  A musicianrun, nonprofit organization dedicated to presenting original music by forwardthinking composers. The Collective presents a concert series in New York City and publishes a newsletter.

• Jazz Heritage  A tenyear initiative to research, preserve, and present the history of jazz through exhibitions, performances, recordings, radio, publications, and educational programs at the Smithsonian and across the nation.

• Jazz Society of Oregon  Based in Portland; sponsors jazz festivals and workshops, offers CD reviews in its Jazzscene Magazine, and a jazz calendar of events.

• Latin Jazz Network  Online project dedicated to promoting Latin jazz music and artists. Contains news, reviews, events, interviews, and artists' profiles.

• Leeds Jazz  Platform for jazz musicians of international standing. Includes concert dates, ticket information and links.

• The Maui Jazz Society  The Maui Jazz Society welcomes the opportunity to bring together those who appreciate jazz, providing a forum for broadening the scope and appeal of Jazz in the Maui community, enriching one of our country's most important and original offerings to the arts.

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• New Orleans Jazz Club  Nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of traditional New Orleans style jazz.

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• North Carolina Jazz Foundation  Founded in 1993 by James Ketch and Gregg Gelb to promote jazz awareness in the state and present performances by the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra.

• Potomac River Jazz Club  A nonprofit society devoted to preserving, encouraging and promoting the playing of traditional /dixieland / ragtime jazz.

• SEMJA  Southeastern Michigan Jazz Association  SEMJA, supporting jazz and jazz education in SE Michigan. With monthly newsletter, local calendar, and reviews of concerts and recordings.

• StarrGennett Foundation  Nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the musical legacy of the Gennett Record company, which recorded some of the earliest and most significant jazz records in the 1920s and 30s.

• The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz  Its mission is to offer the world's most promising young musicians college level training by America's jazz masters and to present public schoolbased jazz education programs for young people around the globe.