Jazz Haven

Greater New Haven's Jazz Community Resource Jazz Haven’s mission is to advance the culture of jazz in Greater New Haven through performances and education.

Jazz Haven was created in 1996 by Doug Morrill and Harold Danko as a not-for-profit organization made up of dedicated volunteers. Since its inception in 1996, Jazz Haven has promoted the culture of Jazz through unique collaborations with artists, organizations, schools and other groups. The skill and passion that its Board members have demonstrated for the culture of jazz encourages a growing netw

ork of organizations and programs that help promote jazz education as well as jazz as an art form. With its beginnings as a series of performances at Artspace, Jazz Haven incorporated programming -- always in collaboration with other organizations -- that have included master classes with visiting artists, concerts featuring internationally and locally known musicians, including the 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 New Haven Jazz Festivals on the New Haven Green, tributes to late jazz masters, benefits for not-for-profit organizations, jazz concerts in senior centers, jazz at Long Wharf Theater, consultation for programming and technical support of other organizations with similar missions, and education. Jazz Haven has organized and presented Jazz in the parks and other venues and presented educational programs in the New Haven Public Schools. Artists who perform at the New Haven Jazz Festivals also give workshops, master classes and performances for students at the Neighborhood Music School Summer Jazz Program. Since 2012 Jazz Haven expanded the Festival on the Green to create a Jazz Week involving many New Haven restaurants and venues with live jazz events, all in collaboration with the City of New Haven Office of Arts, Culture and Tourism. Jazz Haven also produced and presented a series of jazz piano concerts at Shoreline Piano, the LIVE @ The Piano Shop series. Additionally we produced a series of jazz gigs at Cave A Vin Winebar; offered an eight-week jazz improv session for an after-school program at the New Haven Public Schools' Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School and produced a concert series with St. Thomas's Day School in New Haven. We have also collaborated with Long Wharf Theatre to promote the very successful month long run of the play "Satchmo" in the fall of 2012. In 2017 Jazz Haven produced the Jazz Haven Sessions, a series of spring and summer gigs bringing together jazz musicians all across Connecticut at Pacific Standard Tavern and Three Sheets in New Haven. Jazz Haven continues to be a proud supporter of the regular Owl Shop Wednesday night live performances by the Hawkins Jazz Collective. Coming in October 2017 is another Jazz Week New Haven series. Keep posted for more details.

10/27/2024

With flautist Cleave Guyton and bassist Noah Jackson performing a tapestry of music styles

12/30/2023

RIP Willie Ruff

Willie Ruff, an influential and erudite jazz musician and scholar who connected the Yale and New Haven communities to "America's musical art form," died on Dec. 24 in Killen, Alabama. He was 92.

07/21/2023

R.I.P. Tony Bennett

From his initial success as a jazzy crooner through his generation-spanning duets, his career was remarkable for both its longevity and its consistency.

05/03/2023

DONATE TO JAZZ HAVEN THROUGH THE GREAT GIVE.

https://www.thegreatgive.org/organizations/jazz-haven

03/03/2023

R.I.P. Wayne Shorter

Shorter, a tenor saxophonist who debuted in 1959, was a foundational member of two of the most seminal jazz groups: Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and the Miles Davis Quintet.

02/27/2023

Remembering Dexter Gordon on his CENTENARY!!💙

(February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He was among the earliest tenor players to adapt the bebop musical language of people such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the instrument. His studio and live performance career spanned over 40 years.

Gordon's height was 6 feet 6 inches (198 cm), so he was also known as "Long Tall Dexter" and "Sophisticated Giant". He played a Conn 10M Lady Face until 1964. He lost the instrument in a Paris hotel and then switched over to a Selmer Mark VI. His saxophone, seen in various photos, was fitted with an Otto Link metal mouthpiece.

In 1986, Dexter Gordon was named a member and officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture in France. His performance in Round Midnight (Warner Bros, 1986) was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Leading Role and he won a Grammy for Best Soundtrack. On April 25, 1990, Dexter Gordon died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Photo: Dexter Gordon riding his bicycle in Copenhagen by photographer Jørgen Bu.

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02/18/2023

Mary Lou Williams was a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia, but raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where her professional music career started at the young age of 15. Over her impressively long career, Williams found great success and even through the difficulty of being a woman in jazz established herself as a swing and bebop legend. Mary Lou Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington, and mentored and performed with jazz icons such as Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis.

10/01/2022

The move is part of an effort by the CIA to bolster diversity at an agency where minorities have long been underrepresented.

10/01/2022

"This disc should become a collector’s item. The album’s value is compounded by the fact that its proceeds go to a foundation that offers direct support as well as help with healthcare and housing to jazz musicians in need." - artsfuse.org
Have you ordered your copy yet? Order here! - https://buff.ly/31eRjuV

10/01/2022

12/23/2021

Frank B. Cochran sauntered over to the brown vinyl record player that sits in the Institute Library’s upper room.

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06515

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http://jazzhaven.org/donate/

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Jazz Haven was created in 1996 by Doug Morrill and Harold Danko as a not-for-profit organization made up of dedicated volunteers. Jazz Haven’s mission is to advance the culture of jazz in Greater New Haven through performances and education. Since its inception in 1996, Jazz Haven has promoted the culture of Jazz through unique collaborations with artists, organizations, schools and other groups. The skill and passion that its Board members have demonstrated for the culture of jazz encourages a growing network of organizations and programs that help promote jazz education as well as jazz as an art form. With its beginnings as a series of performances at Artspace, Jazz Haven incorporated programming -- always in collaboration with other organizations -- that have included master classes with visiting artists, concerts featuring internationally and locally known musicians, including the 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 New Haven Jazz Festivals on the New Haven Green, tributes to late jazz masters, benefits for not-for-profit organizations, jazz concerts in senior centers, jazz at Long Wharf Theater, consultation for programming and technical support of other organizations with similar missions, and education. Jazz Haven has organized and presented Jazz in the parks and other venues and presented educational programs in the New Haven Public Schools. Artists who perform at the New Haven Jazz Festivals also give workshops, master classes and performances for students at the Neighborhood Music School Summer Jazz Program. Since 2012 Jazz Haven expanded the Festival on the Green to create a Jazz Week involving many New Haven restaurants and venues with live jazz events, all in collaboration with the City of New Haven Office of Arts, Culture and Tourism. Jazz Haven also produced and presented a series of jazz piano concerts at Shoreline Piano, the LIVE @ The Piano Shop series. Additionally we produced a series of jazz gigs at Cave A Vin Winebar; offered an eight-week jazz improv session for an after-school program at the New Haven Public Schools' Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School and produced a concert series with St. Thomas's Day School in New Haven. We have also collaborated with Long Wharf Theatre to promote the very successful month long run of the play "Satchmo" in the fall of 2012. Beginning in 2017 Jazz Haven produced the Jazz Haven Sessions, a series of spring and summer gigs bringing together jazz musicians all across Connecticut at Pacific Standard Tavern and Three Sheets in New Haven. Jazz Haven continues to be a proud supporter of the regular Owl Shop Wednesday night live performances by the Hawkins Jazz Collective.

Donations to Jazz Haven can be made from our website at JazzHaven.org/donate or by sending a check to Jazz Haven at PO Box 3011, New Haven, CT 06515. Donations to Jazz Haven are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.