Jazzmobile Inc. will be celebrating our 40th anniversary with live special events from July 7, 2003 to August 31, 2004.

 

Jazzmobile has been honoring living Jazz greats in concert, producing Jazz concerts as special events and premiering new compositions and talents through the Semi-Annual Major Concert Hall Series ever since 1969. Jazz greats who have been honored include; Milt Jackson, Sarah Vaughn, Nancy Wilson, and the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Jazzmobile is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and corporate sponsors.






Since 1964, Jazzmobile has been presenting Free Outdoor Summer Mobile Concerts. As the pioneer mobile music organization, Jazzmobile has brought great Jazz Artists directly to the public. Since 1968, Jazzmobile has produced a series of free lectures in public schools where skilled musicians/instructors lecture, demonstrate and educate about the history of Jazz interactively. Beginning in 1969, Jazzmobile has instituted Free Saturday Jazz Workshops that is nationally known and respected. Lastly, starting in 1976, Jazzmobile has been implementing an Arts Education Enrichment Program as an alternative education art program interactively utilizing music, drama, poetry, and visual arts with a master/apprentice approach.

 

During the months of July and August, utilizing a mobile bandstand, Jazzmobile presents over 50 concerts reaching an audience of over 150,000. Concerts are conducted each weekday evening, Monday through Friday, employing approximately 600 top jazz artists (i.e., Frank Wess, Irene Reid, Donald Byrd, Jimmy Heath, Roy Hargrove, Winard Harper, Antonio Hart, Vanessa Rubin, Randy Weston), to cite a few.


Pepper Adams
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Nat Adderley
Monte Alexander
Henry "Red" Allen
Albert Ammons
Gene Ammons
Louis Armstrong
Roy Ayers
Benny Bailey
Dave Bailey
Chet Baker
Count Basie
Sidney Bechet
Bix Beiderbecke
George Benson
Art Blakey
Jimmy Blanton
Micheal Brecker
Clifford Brown
Ray Brown
Kenny Burrell
Donald Byrd
Cab Calloway
Candido
Benny Carter
Betty Carter
Paul Chambers
Charlie Christian
Kenny Clarke
Jimmy Cobb
Al Cohn
George Coleman
Ornette Coleman
Steve Coleman
John Coltrane
Junior Cook
Chick Corea
Hank Crawford
Israel Crosby
Miles Davis
Lou Donaldson
Kenny Dorham
Billy Eckstine
Roy Eldridge
Duke Ellington
Art Farmer
Ella Fitzgerald
Tommy Flanagan
Frank Foster
Curtis Fuller
Red Garland
Erroll Garner
Stan Getz
Dizzy Gillespie
Dexter Gordon
Wardell Gray
Grant Green
Johnny Griffin
Tiny Grimes
Chico Hamilton
Lionel Hampton
Slide Hampton
Herbie Hancock
Roy Hargrove
Barry Harris
Roy Haynes
Coleman Hawkins
Jimmy Heath
Percy Heath
Fletcher Henderson
Joe Henderson
Woody Herman
Earl Hines
Milt Hinton
Johnnie Hodges
Billie Holiday
Freddie Hubbard
Milt Jackson
Ahmad Jamal
J. J. Johnson
James P. Johnson
Elvin Jones
Etta Jones
"Philly" Joe Jones
Thad Jones
Wynton Kelly
Stan Kenton
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
John Kirby
Machito
Peggy Lee
John Lewis
Mel Lewis
Melba Liston
John Lucien
Jimmie Lunceford
Herbie Mann
Wynton Marsalis
Carmen McCrae
Charles Mingus
Blue Mitchell
Hank Mobley
Modern Jazz Quartet
Thelonius Monk
James Moody
Lee Morgan
Jelly Roll Morton
Gerry Mulligan
Carmen McCrae
Les McCann
Jack McDuff
Howard McGhee
Jimmy McGriff
Fats Navarro
David "Fathead" Newman
Joe Newman
Joe "King" Oliver
Kid Ory
Charlie Parker
Duke Pearson
Houston Pearson
Oscar Peterson
Benny Powell
Bud Powell
Ben Riley
Charlie Rouse
Mongo Santamaria
Shirley Scott
Wayne Shorter
Horace Silver
Tito Puente
Sonny Redd
Irene Reid
Buddy Rich
Max Roach
Sonny Rollins
Charlie Rouse
Mongo Santamaria
Shirley Scott
Wayne Shorter
Woody Shaw
Horace Silver
Zoot Sims
Jimmy Smith
Lonnie Liston Smith
Willie "The Lion" Smith
Sonny Stitt
Grady Tate
Art Tatum
Billy Taylor
Cecil Taylor
Clark Terry
Bobby Timmons
Stanley Turrentine
McCoy Tyner
Sarah Vaughan
Fats Waller
Cedar Walton
Dinah Washington
Chick Webb
Frank Wess
Randy Weston
Ernie Wilkins
Mary Lou Williams
Teddy Wilson
Lester Young