Jazzmobile

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Jazzmobile is an American jazz organization founded in 1964.

The New York City- based organization Jazzmobile was founded in 1964 by pianist, jazz writer and lecturer Billy Taylor . Since then, Jazzmobile has organized open-air, open-air events showcasing jazz musicians in the five boroughs of New York City, Washington, DC , Maryland , Virginia , Essex County , New Jersey, and Westchester Counties, as well as several cities in New York State . The concerts were supported by New York cultural authorities such as the State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs as well as other sponsors and foundations, including the Anheuser-Busch Brewery , the ASCAP Foundation, the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation and the Billy Taylor Foundation belonged. At the open-air concerts, Jazzmobile presented five to ten bands from the fields of Afro-Latin and jazz.

Jazzmobile did not see itself as a membership organization; rather, a multimedia approach combining different arts such as music, dance, drama, poetry and media art should give students the opportunity to develop creatively. Production coordinator from 1977 was Johnnie Garry, who produced the concert series Jazzmobile Free Outdoors Summer Mobile and Philip Morris Super (Jazz) Band on Tour .

In the early years of the program, musicians such as John Coltrane , Jimmy Heath , Dizzy Gillespie , Pharoah Sanders , Albert Ayler , Archie Shepp , Sun Ra , Horace Silver , Cecil Taylor and other African American musicians played at neighborhood festivals. In 1990, a Jazzmobile's Tribute Concert was held in honor of founder Billy Taylor as part of the annual JVC Jazz Festival , with Nancy Wilson , the Ahmad Jamal Trio and the Terence Blanchard Quintet performing. In the course of its existence, the Jazzmobile program taught u. a. Stanton Davis , Kenny Dorham , Frank Foster , Billy Mitchell , Joe Newman , Jimmy Owens , Charli Persip , Benny Powell , Frank Wess , Chris White , Ernie Wilkins , Mary Lou Williams , Michele Hendricks , Charles Davis , Roland Guerrero and Ronnie Mathews . The numerous Jazzmobile students included a. Roy Campbell , Wayne Escoffery and Talib Kibwe .

In the meantime, Jazzmobile's music education program has been expanded to become a non-profit publishing company and record company.

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  1. ↑ JOHNNIE GARRY “MR. JAZZMOBILE “October 31, 1924 - March 13, 2018. Harlem One Stop, March 20, 2018, accessed April 17, 2018 .
  2. ^ John Gennari: Blowin 'Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics . University of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0-226-28922-2 , p. 287