JAZZ GENERATION INC
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Mission Statement
Powering artist-centric and fiscally efficient funding for America’s greatest art form through music, food, hospitality, education and a new model for entrepreneurial philanthropy
About This Cause
We are a one stop shop for empowering, educating and creating performance opportunities for jazz practitioners and audience members of all ages and all backgrounds. Three programs comprise our organization: Our Jazz Discovery program offers field trips to a jazz club for youth, mostly between 5-14 years old, where professional jazz musicians are waiting to perform and teach about the wonders of jazz. Our second program for youth is the Jazz Standard Youth Orchestra, whereas mostly high school age students learn directly from the greats about arrangement, performance techniques, bandleading/conduction skills, and so much more. Our third program KEYED UP! is perhaps our most popular because of how deep an impact it has in all areas of society. We empower musicians to find 'gigs' in their own neighborhoods at mom-and-pop shops such as Italian Trattoria, Irish Pubs, Community Centers, Jamaican, to name just a few. We share the burden of compensating the bands with the local business owners creating a huge value and new scenes in otherwise slow business nights in diverse locales. By giving just a little extra (we're talking only a couple hundred dollars at a time) our impact: establishes more equitable pay for musicians; boosts business in smaller venues that are expressly NOT jazz clubs; expands access to high quality music in diverse locales by forming jazz nights that are FREE to the public; empowers youth to create business for themselves and perform with more established musicians. We are proud to have given more than $3M in the past 8 years alone to musicians mostly in the NYC 5 boroughs, but have also actively supported events in Boston, New Orleans, Vermont and, with your help, we can expand worldwide. Thank you