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Imagine Jazz
Imagine Jazz stimulates the local art scene with concerts, festivals, educational workshops and more.
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Imagine Jazz
Our Mission:
Imagine Jazz is A non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the jazz legacy and advocating for creative progress through guest artist concerts and workshops.
We strive to celebrate and promote jazz heritage and enrich local living through advocation of the arts and creative music. We foster a sense of community with our fellowship events, local artist features and jam sessions.
We provide educational opportunities to local students and community members of all ages and levels.
Core Values:
We encourage artistic expression, programming a wide variety of of creative and progressive improvised music events. Our roster of artists includes classic jazz artist side by side with related sub-genres of jazz including progressive fusion and related art music.
We celebrate the African-American contribution to jazz, as well as the many global influences to the modern expression of the genre. We highlight the importance of Black American Music as the origin of the genre, and program our series with this pillar.
We aim to foster a sense of community and collaboration among local artists through jam sessions, educational workshops and fellowship events.
Our presentations have included:
-The Willie Jones III Quintet (April 2018)
-The Vincent Herring Quartet (June 2018)
-Logan Richardson's BLUES PEOPLE (October 2018)
-The Black Art Jazz Collective (January 2019)
-The Joe Magnarelli Quintet (June 2019)
-Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet (October 2019)
-Aaron Parks Little Big (October 2019)
-Jeremy Pelt Quintet (January 2020)
-Carl Allen (February 2020)
-Jonathan Barber's Vision Ahead (March 2020)
-Jamie Baum Septet Plus (October 2021)
-Darryl Yokley Sound Reformation (November 2021)
-Jon Irabagon (March 2022)
-Rogerio Boccato Quarteto (June 2022)
-Jaleel Shaw Solo Saxophone (October 2022)
-Marquis Hill: New Gospel Revisited (October 2022)
-Ryan Keberle's REeerso Trio (October 2022)
-Camila Meza solo event (March 5, 2023)
-Jaleel Shaw Quartet (April 2023)
-Ralph Alessi Quartet (June 2023)
-Jahari Stampley & d-Erania Duo (October 2023)
-Affinity Trio (November 2023)
-Caroline Davis' Alula (March 2024)
-Tim Berne Trio (March 2024)
Local Series & Presentation including:
-Inner Flame: Female Composers Presentation
-Unforgettable: Tribute to Nat King Cole featuring Horace Alexander Young
-Imagine Jazz Festival featuring local bands & jam sessions
Founded by Rachel Bade-McMurphy and powered by The Imagine Collective, Imagine Jazz is Member & Volunteer Supported.
Featured Livestream Concert
We will continue to stream certain events for those who cannot be there, and to offer an alternative for those who are feeling ill or uncomfortable in crowds.
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Tips for the performing musicians can be left using this link: MUSICIAN TIP
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