Twenty years ago this fall, visionary jazz producer, record label owner, and Jazz Foundation of America honorary founders board member Hank O’Neal compiled a special charity album to promote and support the JFA’s Musicians’ Emergency Fund. Combing his archive of more than 200 jazz album productions, Hank selected 16 favorite pieces for the limited-edition “One… Read more »
The past two years have had a devastating impact on education – particularly in areas like music education that rely heavily on hands-on technique and group interaction. And music programs were already suffering before the pandemic! The crisis sparked a special partnership between us and the nonprofit organization Keeping The Blues Alive. Founded in 2011… Read more »
The return of the Jazz Foundation of America’s annual West Coast benefit at Herb Alpert’s Vibrato club saw lifetime achievement awards being presented to four titans of the music world: Randy Newman, Bennie Maupin, Lou Adler, and Smokey Robinson. Joining in the tributes were luminaries Jackson Browne, Merry Clayton, Herbie Hancock, JFA Artistic Director Steve… Read more »
At the beginning of 2021, we introduced a special Donation feature on the 32 Bar Blues order checkout page to help augment the efforts of 32 Bar Blues Foundation in support of our nonprofit partners. Thanks to your generous support through this donation feature and through the profits from sales of the special t-shirts, books,… Read more »
In the wake of the devastating pandemic, six legendary record labels – Blue Note, Mack Avenue, Verve, Concord, Nonesuch and Warner Music – have joined together to release RELIEF, an all-star compilation of previously unreleased music from Jon Batiste, Kenny Garrett, Herbie Hancock, Hiromi, IRMA and LEO (Esperanza Spalding and Leo Genovese), Charles Lloyd, Christian… Read more »
EXCERPTED FROM THE SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT – Since the onset of COVID-19, arts education programs have been hit especially hard. Santa Barbara music nonprofit Notes for Notes is no stranger to these challenges. Founded in 2006, Notes for Notes provides and staffs after-school recording studios in Boys & Girls Clubs across the country, allowing kids… Read more »
Launched in 1995, Vail Jazz is one of our nation’s premier music festivals spanning 12 weeks every summer, entertaining more than 50,000 yearly visitors, and contributing to the musicianship of 270+ outstanding jazz players. Vail Jazz also sponsors a school program that has helped educate over 20,000 students across central Colorado. As longtime fans, we… Read more »
32 Bar Blues Partners with African Poetry Book Fund African Poetry Book Fund founder Kwame Dawes is also the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and teaches at the University of Nebraska and the Pacific MFA Program. PRAIRIE SCHOONER: Can you tell us a little bit about 32 Bar Blues and the organization’s relationships to… Read more »
EXCERPT FROM THE SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT “Jazz music is the power of now,” as Wynton Marsalis once said. For men’s clothing company 32 Bar Blues, jazz is the inspiration for the brand – and the power behind an exciting new partnership with the Jazz Foundation of America. Compelled by the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact… Read more »
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