October 2016 Newsletter
Table of contents: Save the date: 39th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert | FiLmprov 20th Anniversary | Artist Spotlight: Jaki Byard | Member's Connection: Win free tickets | No-cost jazz
Oct 8
2016
Sep 24
2016
5th annual Beans & Cornbread Jazzfest Breakfast
Bring out the music in you: Join Mel King and other jazz lovers and community leaders for the 5th annual Beans & Cornbread Jazzfest Breakfast. There's no better way than this to warm up for the Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival. Stop by from 9 AM to noon for a home-cooked meal prepared by the chefs [...]
Sep 9
2016
September 2016 Newsletter
Table of contents: Look for JazzBoston at Beantown! I Dudley Jazz Festival Recap with Fred Woodard I Newport, through young eyes and ears I Boston Jazz Brunches I Member's Connection: Win free tickets I No-cost jazz
Sep 2
2016
Opportunity Fund Open Application
Applications are now being accepted for September. The application submission window closes on 9/15. Grants will be made to individual artists for specific needs, such as materials, professional development costs, conference fees, and stipends for teaching artists. Applicants may request up to $1,000. $10,000 will be available per month until it runs out. Learn more [...]
Jul 14
2016
A Newport Snapshot: The Herb Pomeroy Big Band, 1958
By Dick Vacca It’s mid July, and that means the 2016 edition of America’s oldest jazz festival, at Newport, is just weeks away. Boston jazz musicians, starting of course with pianist George Wein, the event’s founder, have always been a presence at Newport, and sometimes they’ve provided some sensational music. So it was in 1958, [...]
Jul 13
2016
July/August 2016 Newsletter
Table of contents: The 3rd Annual Cambridge Jazz Festival I Boston Jazz Big Bands: Makanda Project I Renew your JazzBoston membership for Newport Jazz Festival tickets I Member's Connection: Win free tickets I No-cost jazz
Jun 9
2016
June 2016 Newsletter
Table of contents: Explore Summer Jazz Festivals | Boston Jazz Giants | Member's Connection: Win free tickets | No-cost jazz
May 6
2016
Jazz Fair
By Mission Hill Gazette Staff (May 6 , 2016) - Stan Strickland, left, Joe Mulholland, center, and Wannetta Jackson, right, sing together during Brigham and Women’s Hospital Lung Center and JazzBoston “Good Music = Good Health Jazz Fair” in the outdoor Levinson Plaza at the Mission Park housing development on April 30. The event was [...]
May 6
2016
BWH, JazzBoston and RTH Unite to Improve Lung Health
On April 30, the BWH Lung Center, BWH Center for Pulmonary Heart Disease and JazzBoston—a nonprofit advocacy organization for Greater Boston’s jazz community—teamed up with the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard (RTH) for the first “Good Music = Good Health Jazz Fair,” a community-based health and wellness event held in RTH’s outdoor Levinson Plaza in Mission [...]
May 5
2016
Music and Medicine Coexist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Can borrowing techniques from wind instrumentalists help rebuild lung strength? By Jamie Ducharme | Hub Health | May 4, 2016, 3:52 p.m. Vocalists and wind instrumentalists rely on specific techniques, such as circular breathing, to power through long, challenging pieces of music, and to create beautiful sounds in the process. Now, thanks to a new partnership, [...]
