Jazz Power Initiative is proud to present our inaugural Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam Festival 2022, a 4-part jazz music performance series of family-friendly concerts in Northern Manhattan during June 2022, spotlighting the creative connections today between the African American and Latin American roots of jazz. Our Intergenerational Jazz Power Summer Jam Festival 2022 is produced by Jazz Power Initiative, an Inwood-based non-profit organization founded in 2003, and presented for the first time in collaboration with Jazzmobile’s Sessions at the Interchurch Center in West Harlem, and our new public partner, The Hispanic Society Museum and Library in Washington Heights....
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Jazz Power Initiative is proud to present our inaugural Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam Festival 2022, a 4-part jazz music performance series of family-friendly concerts in Northern Manhattan during June 2022, spotlighting the creative connections today between the African American and Latin American roots of jazz. Our Intergenerational Jazz Power Summer Jam Festival 2022 is produced by Jazz Power Initiative, an Inwood-based non-profit organization founded in 2003, and presented for the first time in collaboration with Jazzmobile’s Sessions at the Interchurch Center in West Harlem, and our new public partner, The Hispanic Society Museum and Library in Washington Heights.
Our Intergenerational Jazz Power Summer Jam Festival is a public series of free, family-friendly, public concerts for general audiences of all ages, and features a cross-cultural, multidisciplinary and intergenerational array of professional jazz music and acclaimed performing artists presenting both classics and original, contemporary works. These include a premiere of a new music commission, based on the poem "Black Notes" by Sandra Maria Estevez, and selected highlights from our original Jazz Power musicals for K-12 students, with songs addressing socially relevant themes such as facing climate change, embracing diversity, navigating young adulthood, standing up for voting rights, and sharing the healing power of the blues. “Our first Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam Festival features a range of artists of all ages, backgrounds and disciplines, to draw the community into the joy and the healing power of jazz. After these two years of online programming, with our Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam Festival 2022, we are ready to go back to our Northern Manhattan communities of Washington Heights, Inwood and Harlem, to energize and empower them with the music that was born here, and to prolong its influence and love from future generations for years to come.” - Eli Yamin, Jazz Power Initiative Managing and Artistic Director
June 25, 3:00 PM – Uptown!, the 19-piece Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra (SOLJO) celebrate the living legacy of the Palladium Ballroom, and JPI Emerging Artist-in-Residence Jason Clotter and his quintet salute Sam (Jones) and Cedar (Walton). Location: Hispanic Society Museum and Library, 613 W 155th St, NY, NY 10032.
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