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Jazz Power Youth Auditions Are Open!

Audition 5th-12th Graders with your favorite song,To receive instruction in voice, acting, and movement and make friends with jazz and in jazz in this award-winning, low-cost program. Audition 5th-12th Graders with your favorite song, to receive instruction in voice, acting, and movement and make friends with jazz and in jazz in this award-winning, low-cost program. Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to nurture your talents and connect with a vibrant community of young jazz enthusiasts! Students perform with veteran jazz artists in all types of venues uptown.

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Youth Auditions Are Open!

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UpTown Arts Stroll: Jazz Power Initiative

We’re Celebrating the 125th Birthday of the Duke with Duke Ellington songs produced by Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) as part of the 2024 NoMAA Arts Stroll! Our very own Zah! Jr. with Dr. E, featuring Zaid Nasser, saxophone and Jennifer Vincent, bass.

It’s all happening on Monday, June 24th from 6:30-7:30 P.M. at the YM&YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood!

Jazz Power Institute

Calling all artists and educators! We are holding our annual Jazz Power Institute in partnership with Lehman College on June 9th and 10th! Jazz Power Institute provides a dynamic framework for artists and educators, to build their knowledge and skill teaching jazz across disciplines of music, dance and writing; awakening deeper imagination, community and trust with their students. This year’s theme is EMPOWERMENT AND CONNECTION THROUGH JAZZ AND AFRO LATIN JAZZ with hands-on transformational and multidisciplinary learning experiences led by Dr. Eli Yamin (JPI Managing and Artistic Director), Antoinette Montague (Senior voice teacher), with guest artists James McBride (author/musician), and Latin jazz specialists Steven Oquendo, Alberto Toro, J Black and Carmen Morillo. Don’t miss this RARE and FREE opportunity for professional development. DOE Educators receive CTLE credits. Sign up now at jazzpower.org/institute2024

Jazz Power Institute

Calling all artists and educators! We are holding our annual Jazz Power Institute in partnership with Lehman College on June 9th and 10th! Jazz Power Institute provides a dynamic framework for artists and educators, to build their knowledge and skill teaching jazz across disciplines of music, dance and writing; awakening deeper imagination, community and trust with their students. This year’s theme is EMPOWERMENT AND CONNECTION THROUGH JAZZ AND AFRO LATIN JAZZ with hands-on transformational and multidisciplinary learning experiences led by Dr. Eli Yamin (JPI Managing and Artistic Director), Antoinette Montague (Senior voice teacher), with guest artists James McBride (author/musician), and Latin jazz specialists Steven Oquendo, Alberto Toro, J Black and Carmen Morillo. Don’t miss this RARE and FREE opportunity for professional development. DOE Educators receive CTLE credits. Sign up now at jazzpower.org/institute2024

UPTOWN ARTS STROLL: Intergenerational Jazz Power Festival

Save the Date! for Intergenerational Jazz Power Festival on Pat’s Lawn, Inwood Hill Park! Groove to the soulful rhythms of the Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra, celebrate the legacy of jazz sheros with Antoinette Montague’s “Here’s To The Ladies Who Swing and Bling”, marvel at the talent of the All-City High School Latin Ensemble under the direction of Alberto Toro, and witness the rising stars of Zah! Jr. with Dr. E and Jazz Power. Don’t miss out on this harmonious gathering! FREE admission

Intergenerational Jazz Power Festival is produced by Jazz Power Initiative, a non-profit, 501 (c) (3) organization founded in 2003, is made possible in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; the Howard Gilman Foundation; the Hispanic Federation; the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation; the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation; and our individual donors. Thank you for your support!