Visitor Information
**The museum will be closing at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, November 27th and will be closed on Thursday the 28th and Friday the 29th**
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem’s Visitors Center is open to the public Monday through Friday from 10 am–4 pm. We invite you to our jazz living room where you can peruse our exhibits, get lost in our library, and enjoy our vast CD and DVD archive. Most importantly, visitors have the opportunity to engage in a lively conversation with our knowledgeable docents (some whom are long-time residents of Harlem) as well as with other visitors.
Museum Group Visit Information >
The museum is within walking distance of the 125th street stop of the 2/3/4/5/6 subway lines and Metro-North trains. If you take the A/B/C/D lines, you can transfer to a cross-town bus on 125th Street.
January 16, 2014Body and Soul: Rhythm and the Body with Frederick Schjang and LaFrae Sci
In this installment of the Parallax Conversation series we will have fitness instructor and physical therapist Frederick Schjang in conversation with drummer LaFrae Sci on the connections between the body, rhythm, and music.
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January 28, 2014Rhythm and Dance with Michela Marino Lerman
Michela Marino Lerman, will join us for a discussion on the dynamic presence of dance in jazz and demonstrate her wonderful talent. Michela was a student of Buster Brown and Gregory Hines and has collaborated with Benny Golson, Roy Hargrove, Ravi Coltrane, and Marcus Strickland to name a few!
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January 21, 2014The Truth: Rhythm and Writing with Paul Harding
Literary history is chock full of authors who, inspired by musical rhythms, have strove to integrate them into their writing.. This evening, NJMH is happy to welcome into its family of collaborators musician and author, Paul Harding.
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January 14, 2014A Cutting Session: Rhythm in Film with Emily Hubley
At the root of cinema is the art of editing; the assemblage of footage in time, which by definition creates its own rhythm. As part of our regular collaboration with the Maysles Institute and Cinema, we are proud to present filmmaker Emily Hubley, who has been making animated shorts since 1980.
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January 9, 2014Billy Drummond, Drummer
Critically acclaimed drummer Billy Drummond joins NJMH this month for our landmark oral history series, Harlem Speaks.
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January 7, 2014Broadway Boogie Woogie: Rhythm in the Visual Arts with Bob O’Meally
This evening we will investigate the influence that jazz had on such masters as Stuart Davis, Piet Mondrian and Romare Bearden with Professor Robert G. O’Meally, Columbia University’s Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and founder and director of the Center for Jazz Studies.
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January 17, 2014Douglas Detrick & the Anywhen Ensemble
Celebrating the release of their new album on Parma Recordings, “The Bright and Rushing World,” Douglas Detrick’s Anywhen Ensemble melds a dynamic chamber performance (composed for trumpet, sax, cello, bassoon, and drums) with jazz improvisation.
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December 17, 2013Creole Roots Plus
The many wonders of the Savory Collection will receive thrillingly new and varied interpretations in this imaginative evening of music with giants violinist and Matt Glaser and trumpeter Etienne Charles and more!
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December 13, 2013Alan Broadbent
Two-time Grammy Award-winning pianist Alan Broadbent, called “one of the greatest living jazz pianists” by the LA Times and “one of the most original improvisers in the world of jazz” by Charlie Haden, comes to the Rubin Museum for the first time, and on the heels of a rare five-star rating from DownBeat Magazine for his latest album, “Heart to Heart.”
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December 10, 2013POSTPONED: Bill Savory and the Heroics of Sound, with Doug Pomeroy
Join us as fabled sound engineer Doug Pomeroy reveals some of the secrets of his trade and what the Savory Collection means to it. His passion for what he does promises to make this an unforgettable night!
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December 6, 2013Meg Okura & the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble
“Chamber jazz has found its queen in Meg Okura,” boasted All About Jazz of Okura whose concert and new CD pay an acoustic tribute to synth-pop pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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December 5, 2013Harlem Swings!
Featuring new interpretations of music from The Savory Collection with Jimmy Heath, Ethan Iverson, Aaron Diehl, Dominick Farinacci and Peter Evans
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December 3, 2013Bill Savory the Innovator, with Susan Schmidt-Horning
Join author Susan Schmidt-Horning, the only historian ever granted extensive interviews with Bill Savory, for an evening dedicated the untold story behind this one-of-a-kind American genius.
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December 12, 2013The Year in Jazz: A Critics Roundtable
Five renowned music critics who write for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR Music, The New Yorker and The Village Voice discuss the highlights of this year in jazz.
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November 22, 2013Matt Marantz and Sam Harris Quartet
Saxophone player Matt Marantz, “a deeply sincere and meditative player,” (Downbeat) teams with pianist Sam Harris lead a quartet with Martin Nevin on bass and Lee Fish on drums.
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November 20, 2013Echoes of Harlem: Classic Jazz Treasures featuring Loren Schoenberg
Jazz saxophonist Loren Schoenberg, Artistic Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, brings the rare, recently-discovered Savory Collection jazz recordings to life. Schoenberg, with an all-star Bay Area jazz band, riffs along with, the classic jazz treasures.
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November 21, 2013Dayna Stephens
Join us for an interview with internationally renowned saxophonist/ composer/educator Dayna Stephens!
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November 7, 2013Sunny Jain & Matt Moran
To take a new look at the New Orleans second-line tradition and its NYC incarnations, this evening features brass band heavy hitters Sunny Jain of Red Baraat and Matt Moran of Slavic Soul Party!
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November 14, 2013Larry Blumenfeld & Ben Jaffe
Join Larry Blumenfeld of the WSJ and Village Voice and Ben Jaffe of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band for a NOLA throw-down!
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November 26, 2013Tuning into Tremé
Part 4: The “New” New Orleans with special guest, Tremé producer Eric Overmyer
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Part 3: It Happens in the Street
view event November 12, 2013Tuning into Tremé
Part 2: What is New Orleans Tradition? With special guest, pianist Courtney Bryan
view event November 5, 2013Tuning into Tremé
Part 1: Glorious Noises and Noise Ordinances
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October 29, 2013The Evolution of the Jazz Mandolin
The last session in our series on the jazz mandolin will focus on the further development of mandolin jazz through Swing, Bebop, and the present with discussion on the contemporary mandolinists.
view event October 22, 2013The Evolution of the Jazz Mandolin
The mandolin music of the 1930’s, 40’s , 50’s, and 60’s was influenced in large part by six musicians: Dave Apollon, Bill Monroe, Yank Rachell, Howard Armstrong, Tiny Moore, and Jethro Burns. The fourth segment in our mandolin series takes a look at these masters and the spreading of mandolin to blues, bluegrass and swing.
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October 31, 2013David Amram, composer/multi-instrumentalist
We are honored to have as our guest multi-instrumentalist, composer and author David Amram, rightfully hailed as a Renaissance man of American Music for our Harlem Speaks interview series.
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October 16, 2013Unusual Instruments in the Savory Collection Featuring Scott Robinson
In this second of a series of concerts produced in collaboration with the National Endowment of the Arts, the NJMH celebrates The Savory Collection by presenting multi-instrumentalist Scott Robinson as he reacts and creates to the never-before-heard sounds from 70+ years ago.
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October 10, 2013Naren Budhakar, tabla & Sylvain Leroux, Guinean tambin flute and ngoni
In this installation of the Parallax Conversation Series we are excited to have two world music masters that have brought an unusual instrument to the forefront of their respective genres as well as jazz. Not only are Snehasish Mozumder and Sylvain Leroux virtuosos on the mandolin and tambin flute, respectively, but they have invented unique variations of the instruments.
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October 9, 2013ImproviNation: An Evening with OneBeat on Freestyling Across the Globe and Around the Block
An evening of live music and discussion on cross-cultural collaboration, cultural diplomacy and what the philosophy behind jazz can teach us about getting along.
view event October 1, 2013The Evolution of the Jazz Mandolin
Part 1: “Once Upon a Time” The first segment on the evolution of jazz mandolin will examine the 17th and 18th century origins of the mandolin in the Mediterranean to…
view event October 15, 2013The Evolution of the Jazz Mandolin
In the third segment of the jazz mandolin series, we discuss the explosion of mandolin playing and the development of mandolin groups in the teens and 1920′s.
view event October 8, 2013The Evolution of the Jazz Mandolin
Part two of the jazz mandolin sessions will discuss the simultaneous popularity of ragtime in America and choro in Brazil.
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October 4, 2013FFEAR
FFEAR (Forum for Electro-Acoustic Research) is an improvising quartet co-led by Chris Washburne and Ole Mathisen, and is Washburne’s most adventurous project to date.
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