Community

A crucial component of the Center’s mission is to serve as an educational and research center for our neighbors in Harlem–and indeed for the city, the nation, and the world–to access resources for scholarship and teaching in jazz and African American culture.

Along with the ongoing Columbia/Harlem Jazz Project and the 2007 Columbia/Harlem Festival of Global Jazz, organized in partnership with the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, Inc. and Jazzmobile, Inc. the Center for Jazz Studies is deeply engaged with its community, presenting events at Harlem venues and partnering with artists, scholars, and community cultural and economic institutions such as the Harlem Arts Alliance, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Community Works, and the New Heritage Theatre Group.

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Jazz Studies Online

Jazz Studies Online's rich collection of digital resources–journal articles, books and book chapters, video and audio, teaching materials–is proving tremendously exciting for jazz scholars, musicians, educators, journalists, and the general public. More…

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Louis Armstrong Visiting Professorship

Generous support from the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation enables the Center for Jazz Studies to sponsor Armstrong Visiting Professors to teach jazz-related academic courses and curate public programs. More…

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The Conversations Series

With support from the Ford Foundation, this series of public discussions explores the role of improvisation in the widest array of fields and practices, showing how ideas from jazz culture resonate with the intellectual currents of our time. More…

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Jazz Study Group

The interdisciplinary Jazz Study Group meets regularly to explore new methods of studying the history of jazz, its social context, and its ramifications as a global cultural phenomenon that has influenced all of the arts, the humanities, and even the sciences. More…

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Columbia/Harlem Jazz Project

A New York State Music Fund grant enables the Columbia/Harlem Jazz Project, which presents leading artists in programs that explore and interpret jazz music through a variety of perspectives, to a community where the roots of jazz run deep. More…

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Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice

An international research team, more than thirty scholars from eighteen universities, as well as twelve community groups, explore seven research areas related to improvisation, defining a new interdisciplinary field. More…

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