San Jose Jazz

Filing Period

Apr 1, 2012 to Mar 31, 2013

Signed

Oct 8, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$1,943,787

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

San jose jazz education programssummer jazz camp (110-130 students) propels student-musicians forward as musicians and individuals. The two-week camp enables young talented students to work closely with professional jazz musicians to help them achieve a greater mastery of performance and improvisation techniques while advancing their knowledge of music theory, arranging, composition, performance, and jazz history. San jose jazz high school all stars big band program provides some of the most gifted, motivated, young, jazz musicians in the south bay region with an advanced opportunity to grow and develop as musicians and young adults. Participation is accomplished through a competitive audition process. Progressions is san jose jazz's new, k-12, youth development program that uses music to connect with low-income, at-risk students, challenges them with a rigorous music education program, helps them build a prosocial community, and stays with them until they graduate from high school. The program focuses on helping to keep participants in school, out of gangs, and on the road to becoming better students and contributing citizens. Progressions is taught by professional musicians/educators/mentors who teach students to read music, master instruments, and collaborate in ensembles, bands, and choirs which help them: develop as individuals, learn to set and achieve goals, and understand what it takes to succeed in life and in the classroom.

Activity 3

San jose jazz concerts and eventswinter fest has many of the same ingredients of the summer fest except that it's teasingly smaller. Winter fest brings diverse performers that range from legendary and emerging artists to world sounds. Jazz wednesdays is a series of 52 free concerts produced in downtown san jose. It was created to provide jazz aficionados with regular access to live jazz and to provide local musicians with paying gigs. On the first and third wednesdays of each month, attendees will find a jazz jam session at the hedley club in the hotel de anza. All other wednesdays one can find free concerts at the hilton's affinity lounge or the sainte claire's palm room. South 1st fridays is a monthly, eclectic, evening of live arts and culture in san jose's growing arts district, sofa. San jose jazz, in partnership with eulipia restaurant, presents a free concert as part of south 1st fridays featuring regional jazz musicians who consciously push some of the boundaries of jazz. The concerts are free and take place the first friday of the month.

Filer

EIN

77-0140627