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Jazz Impresario George Wein Donates The Jazz and Blues ArtBox to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

4/24/2018

Jazz Impresario George Wein Donates The Jazz and Blues ArtBox to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Collection includes more than 400 hours of live performances by and 96 exclusive interviews with jazz’s greatest musicians at the International Jazzfestival Bern

New York, NY – George Wein, jazz producer, promoter and pianist, Founder of the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals and CEO of Newport Festivals Foundation, has donated The Jazz and Blues ArtBox to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library (NYPL).

Offering researchers and jazz lovers unparalleled access into one of the most comprehensive visual records documenting the jazz era, The Jazz and Blues ArtBox includes:

Newport Festivals Foundation Donates Instruments to Four Schools in Pawtucket

4/10/2018

Newport Festivals Foundation
Brought the Gift of Music
Through a Donation of Musical Instruments
to Four Schools in Pawtucket

NEWPORT, RI, April 9, 2018 – Students at four schools in Pawtucket, RI, are playing sweet music on instruments donated by Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. The Foundation’s Executive Producer, Jay Sweet, presented the instruments to students from bnhnm Goff, Jenks and Slater Middle Schools and Tolman High School during a special program held in the Goff auditorium on Thursday, April 5.

“Knowing that these instruments will allow students from public schools in Rhode Island – the state our festivals call home – the opportunity to experience making music, is what this foundation is all about,” said Sweet. “At a time when arts and music programs are experiencing budget cuts nationwide, we're proud to be doing our part to make sure the next generation has the essential tools they need for a quality music education.”

Among the instruments donated to students are a tenor saxophone and tuba (Goff); a baritone saxophone, trumpet and flute (Jenks); an acoustic guitar and two electric guitars (Slater); and a tuba and alto saxophone (Tolman).

Celebrate International Jazz Day at Jazzmobile's Keep the Music Playing Benefit Concert, April 30, 6:30 pm

4/9/2018

CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY WITH JAZZMOBILE AND
WINARD HARPER, Music Director, WYCLIFFE GORDON, LOUIS HAYES,
BRIANNA THOMAS, BOBBY SANABRIA, ANTOINETTE MONTAGUE AND 30+ JAZZ GREATS
AT JAZZMOBILE’S KEEP THE MUSIC PLAYING BENEFIT CONCERT at
The Sanctuary | First Corinthian Baptist Church
Honoring “Mr. Jazzmobile” JOHNNIE GARRY With the 2018 JAZZY AWARD posthumously
AT THIS ONE NIGHT ONLY PERFORMANCE!
April 30, 2018 | 6:30 PM

HARLEM, NY, April 9, 2018 – Jazzmobile’s one night only benefit concert “Keep The Music Playing” is back with 36 stellar Jazz musicians who are donating their performance to support Jazzmobile and its concerts and education programs. Come prepared for a swinging night of music that will have jazz fans dancing in the aisles of The Sanctuary of First Corinthian Baptist Church, 1912 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd. in Harlem, on Monday, April 30, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm.

The music will begin with the Saturday Jazz Workshop | Master Class High School Student Big Band (all attend the Celia Cruz Bronx High School for Music). The second set will open with the presentation of the Jazzmobile Jazzy Award to the late Johnnie Garry who spent over 60 years in the jazz industry as a stage hand, stage manager (Café Society), club manager (Birdland), and artist manager (Ms. Sarah Vaughan). For 35 of those years, he was Jazzmobile’s Production Coordinator and historian.

Jazz Impresario George Wein Donates The Jazz and Blues ArtBox to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Jazz Impresario George Wein Donates The Jazz and Blues ArtBox to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Newport Festivals Foundation Donates Instruments to Four Schools in Pawtucket

Newport Festivals Foundation Brought the Gift of Music Through a Donation of Musical Instruments ​to Four Schools in Pawtucket

Celebrate International Jazz Day at Jazzmobile's Keep the Music Playing Benefit Concert, April 30, 6:30 pm

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Newport Festivals Foundation
Brought the Gift of Music
Through a Donation of Musical Instruments
to Four Schools in Pawtucket