Partners & Supporters

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem is proud to present programs in partnership with:

Apollo Theater Bauman Rare Books Getty Images Children’s Museum of Manhattan The Dance Theatre of Harlem Duke Ellington Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of Natural History Ginny’s Supper Club Institute for Jazz Studies, Rutgers University-Newark Jazz At Lincoln Center Louis Armstrong House Museum	Maysles Cinema Museum of the City of New York MIST Harlem The Rubin Museum of Art Smithsonian Institution Stanford University Schomburg Center The Studio Museum in Harlem The Union Settlement Association

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem programs, performances, exhibitions, and operations are made possible with major funding from:

Interested in Corporate Sponsorship with The National Jazz Museum in Harlem? We’d love to speak with you. Call us at (212) 348-8300 Ext. 100 or e-mail rmaloney@jmih.org to get started.

Foundation	Corporate
Charles O’Malley Charitable Lead Trust Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Grammy Foundation Hyde and Watson Foundation Koret Foundation Malka Fund of the Jewish Communal Fund Sandpiper Fund Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone	Analysis Group Bernstein Companies Bronx Lebanon Hospital City College of New York Davis & Gilbert LLP Firm Advice Gagosian Gallery Merrill Lynch Passport Real Estate Sullivan & Cromwell

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November 1, 2016

Fall Benefit Concert: The Pedrito Martinez Group

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem invites you to its 2nd Annual Harlem Shout Fall Benefit Concert featuring GRAMMY nominated Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez and The Pedrito Martinez Group. Proceeds from…

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October 11, 2016

The Legatees

A previously unpublished photo of Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis is the centerpiece of a gallery of musicians who spoke to their generations about the great legacy of African-American genius….

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September 16, 2016

Deadline to Apply to Fall Internships

NJMH internships offer an unparalleled opportunity to gain in-depth work experience with a not-for-profit organization that is a quickly expanding force for jazz in New York City and the world.

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November 21, 2016

Dayna Stephens Group featuring Patrick Bartley, Jr.

Since the release of his 2007 disc, The Timeless Now (CTA), Dayna Stephens has emerged as one of his generation’s most distinguished modern jazz tenor saxophonists and composers. He hones…

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October 20, 2016

Hamiet Bluiett

For more than 55 years, Hamiet Bluiett has pushed the limits of the baritone saxophone while exploring a musical path that includes co-founding the Black Artists Group of St. Louis,…

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November 7, 2016

The Conversation Continued with Arturo O’Farrill

GRAMMY Award-winning pianist and bandleader Arturo O’Farrill will reflect on the journey of his father, composer Chico O’Farrill, from Cuba to Manhattan. He will discuss his own journeys in reverse,…

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December 13, 2016

Raydar Ellis

Revive Music hosts an intimate discussion with Berklee College of Music songwriting professor of Hip-Hop Brian ”Raydar” Ellis and special guests discussing the impact of Kendrick Lamar’s widely successful album…

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September 20, 2016

Harlem Celebrates Tito Puente

To celebrate the Museum’s new Tito Puente exhibit opening in September at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, we will have live music as well as three of Puente’s closest…

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September 13, 2016

Benny Carter’s Cashmere Coat

Before breaking the color line in 1940s Hollywood, Benny Carter was a king in the Harlem music scene. Carter biographer/producer Ed Berger will join us as we trace Carter’s path…

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November 3, 2016

Blue Rhythm Fantasy: Big Band Jazz Arranging in the Swing Era

Jazz historian and author John Wriggle explores New York City’s vibrant entertainment industry of the 1930s and ‘40s to celebrate the big band jazz arrangers who built the Swing Era…

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December 6, 2016

The Amazing Nina Simone

Nina Simone was beyond category in her music, life and now legacy. In the new documentary film, The Amazing Nina Simone, Director Jeff L. Lieberman spoke to over 50 of…

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October 25, 2016

Mapping Harlem’s Heyday

Elmer Simms Campbell drew a vibrantly brilliant map of Harlem nightspots in 1932 for Manhattan magazine. A pioneering African-American illustrator, he created a stirring image at once well-informed and devoid…

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November 19, 2016

Considering Genius: The Life and Times of Stanley Crouch

Stanley Crouch has long been a leading voice in American culture, as an essayist and critic who has no time for conformity. Please join us as we begin our season-long…

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December 1, 2016

Terri Lyne Carrington

Three-time GRAMMY® Award-winner Terri Lyne Carrington has been expanding boundaries for years: she is a jazz drummer, composer, singer, record producer, and entrepreneur. Please join us for an in-depth conversation…

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September 27, 2016

Ellington Scored Life

Jazz combines written and improvised music in a truly American way. We have taken Ellington’s hand-written manuscript for his classic “Harlem Air Shaft” and enlarged it to wall size. Join…

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November 15, 2016

New Yor-Uba, Then and Now with Michele Rosewoman

More than 30 years ago, pianist and composer Michele Rosewoman’s parallel paths—jazz and Afro-Cuban folklore—merged into a compelling whole in New York through her New Yor-Uba ensemble. Rosewoman will describe…

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September 22, 2016

New Thrones, New Kings with Yosvany Terry

Saxophonist and bandleader Yosvany Terry, a Harlem resident who directs Harvard University’s jazz ensembles, discusses growing up in Cuba’s Camagüey province and the influence of his father, Eladio “Don Pancho”…

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September 24, 2016

Lift Every Voice: Celebrating the Grand Opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Join The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, a Smithsonian Affiliate, as we celebrate the opening of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C.,…

December 8, 2016

The Year in Jazz: A Critics Roundtable hosted by Nate Chinen

Four leading music critics representing a range of perspectives and publications will converge in this annual critics’ roundtable, hosted and moderated by Nate Chinen, author and music critic for The New…

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October 18, 2016

History, Mystery and Modernism with David Virelles and Román Díaz

Pianist and composer David Virelles mines traditions of his native Santiago, Cuba, while using his current home in Brooklyn as a base for some of New York’s most striking and…

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August 19, 2016

Havana Harlem Festival Concert

Featuring Tim Porter Trio and Jorge Luis Pacheco Y Su Grupo $10 suggested donation In partnership with The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce and as part of Harlem Week and…

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August 13, 2016

Swinging Saturday

Join us for an old-fashioned SATURDAY-AT-THE-MOVIE-THEATER show with: live jazz tap dancing jazzy cartoons sing-a-longs and a selection of the best of Ellington, Basie, Miles Davis and other jazz giants. For…

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August 6, 2016

Swinging Saturday

Join us for an old-fashioned SATURDAY-AT-THE-MOVIE-THEATER show with: live jazz tap dancing jazzy cartoons sing-a-longs and a selection of the best of Ellington, Basie, Miles Davis and other jazz giants. Bring…

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