The National Jazz Museum in Harlem Smithsonian Aliate 2017 Gala Benefit Concert Sponsorship Opportunity Featuring: Cécile McLorin Salvant GRAMMY Award-Winning Vocalist Joey Alexander Two-time GRAMMY Award-Nominated Pianist Honoring: Randy Weston Pianist & Composer Legends of Jazz Award Jazzmobile Serving jazz community for 53 years Jazz and Community Leadership Award Arthur H. Barnes Former Chair of the Board of Trustees of The National Jazz Museum in Harlem The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues Wednesday, June 14, 2017 6 PM — VIP Reception 7:30 PM — Awards Presentation & Concert We invite you to partner with the Smithsonian-Affiliated National Jazz Museum in Harlem as a Producer, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Signature or Supporting Sponsor of our 2017 Gala Benefit Concert featuring the renowned artists, pianist Joey Alexander and vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant. We will present our Legends of Jazz Award, given to individuals whose artistry embodies the highest jazz standards and traditions, to pianist Randy Weston; and we will present our Jazz and Community Leadership Award, given to individuals and organizations for leadership in advancing the appreciation of jazz and for enduring contributions to the quality of life in local Harlem communities, to Jazzmobile. This year we honor our former Board Chair Arthur H. Barnes in recognition of his extraordinary commitment and contributions to jazz. The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, a Smithsonian Affiliate, is a thriving center for jazz that stimulates hearts and minds, and reaches out to diverse audiences to enjoy this quintessential American music. The Museum was founded in 1997 by Leonard Garment who was Counsel to two U.S. Presidents and an accomplished jazz saxophonist. A one million dollar Congressional Appropriation, an initial gift by Abraham Sofaer, a former U.S. Judge, in honor of his brother-in-law Richard J. Scheuer, Jr., followed by matching funds from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone provided the essential early funding for the Museum. Our mission is to preserve, promote, and present jazz by inspiring knowledge, appreciation, and the celebration of jazz locally, nationally, and internationally. We are committed to keeping jazz present and exciting in the lives of a broad range of audiences: young and old, novice and scholar, artist and patron, enthusiast and curious listener. From our new location in the center of Harlem, we serve the local community and welcome visitors from across the U.S. and internationally. Each year, we produce and present more than 80 free programs in New York City and reach nearly 20,000 people from around the world. We are a hub for live performances, exhibits and educational programs. We are also home to the widely acclaimed Savory Collection, which includes more than 100 hours of live recordings of jazz legends made from New York City radio broadcasts aired between 1935 and 1941. In 2016, we made news by releasing the first of the historic Savory Collection albums in partnership with Apple Music. Education is central to our mission and we offer year-round educational programs for students of all ages. Our new membership program has benefits with exclusive content that reaches out to the worldwide jazz community. Our ultimate, long-term goal is to secure a permanent home in Harlem with space large enough to showcase Harlem’s vast contributions to jazz, American music and world culture. Board of Trustees Timothy L. Porter, Chair Wynton Marsalis Jonathan Scheuer, Vice Chair Kenneth McIntyre Daryl A. Libow, Secretary Robert L. Nelson, Jr. Mark A. Willis, Treasurer Richard S. Taffet Ken Burns Samuel Turvey Neal Dittersdorf Lloyd Williams Gregory Floyd Staff Artistic Team Administrative Staff Loren Schoenberg, Founding Director Jasna Radonjic, Managing Director & Senior Scholar Ryan Maloney, Director of Education Christian McBride, Co-Artistic Director & Programming Jonathan Batiste, Co-Artistic Director Camille Thornhill, Membership Coordinator Bree Evans, Research & Operations Associate Christopher Knox, Programming and Visitor Services Assistant PUBLIC PROGRAMS Jazz for Curious Listeners This weekly evening program takes an in-depth look at jazz through conversations, lecture-demonstrations, film screenings, and interviews. Harlem Speaks Our oral history initiative, Harlem Speaks, is an interview series with musicians, authors, and other individuals who reflect on Harlem’s rich history of jazz. Drop Me Off in Harlem Developed for our community’s elders, we bring live music and conversation to local senior centers. EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS Born in Harlem This program engages teens and adults by looking at the musical and cultural innovations that were born in Harlem during the first half of the 20th century. Oom Bop Sh’bam A fun introduction to jazz, Oom Bop Sh’Bam uses improvisation, scat singing, and bebop to foster creativity, self-confidence, and self-expression, and is designed for students in grades K-5. Experience Harlem Education Series This in-school residency program is led by our teaching artists. Various elements of jazz become tools to teach music, literacy, history and social studies in 7th to 12th grade classrooms. National And International Outreach Programs Programs we’ve developed have reached students of all ages. Examples include Brigham Young University, Stanford University, and universities and festival in Cuba and Poland. SAVORY COLLECTION A jazz lover’s dream come true, the Savory Collection features never-before- heard live recordings of jazz legends at the height of their careers. Created by recording engineer William Savory, the collection includes more than 100 hours of recordings made from live New York City radio broadcasts between 1935 and 1941. Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Fats Waller, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Django Reinhardt, Coleman Hawkins, Louis Jordan, Lennie Tristano and Bunny Berigan are all showcased in the Savory Collection. Packed away for decades and only rumored to exist, the Savory Collection was acquired by the Museum in 2010 and has made headlines around the world— in The New York Times, BBC, NPR, Newsweek and more. The Savory Collection is a prized addition to the Museum’s continuously expanding collections. Since October 2016 selections from this treasure trove have been made widely available through Apple Music, to critical acclaim. WHY BECOME A SPONSOR? • You will be in good company with past sponsors and donors: Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, KPMG, Verizon, National Endowment for the Arts, Microsoft, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Grammy Foundation, TD Bank, New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs among many others. • You will be supporting us in preserving, presenting and promoting the knowledge and appreciation of the most quintessential American music. • You will be supporting a cultural organization that celebrates Harlem as a cultural epicenter of jazz and African-American art. • Your sponsorship will help us bring arts education to over a thousand school children, including many coming from underserved communities. • You will be bringing us closer to achieving our goal of establishing a permanent home in Harlem for The National Jazz Museum. • Your sponsorship will be noticed by close to 700 people attending the gala, and over 10,000 people who are receiving our promotional materials. • You and your guests will have a great night out filled with world class entertainment. FEATURED ARTISTS Cécile McLorin Salvant When Cécile McLorin Salvant arrived at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC to compete in the finals of the 2010 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, she was not only the youngest finalist, but also a mystery woman with the most unusual background of any of the participants. When she walked away with first place in the jazz world’s most prestigious contest, the buzz began almost immediately. “She has poise, elegance, soul, humor, sensuality, power, virtuosity, range, insight, intelligence, depth and grace,” Wynton Marsalis asserts. “I’ve never heard a singer of her generation who has such a command of styles,” remarks pianist Aaron Diehl. “She radiates authority,” critic Ben Ratliff wrote in The New York Times in response to one of her post-competition performances, and a few weeks later his colleague Stephen Holden announced that “Ms. McLorin Salvant has it all…. If anyone can extend the lineage of the Big Three—Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald—it is this 23-year-old virtuoso.” In his article in The New York Times, critic Stephen Holden listed some of the virtues of McLorin Salvant’s singing, “perfect pitch and enunciation, a playful sense of humor, a rich and varied tonal palette, a supple sense of swing, exquisite taste in songs and phrasing, and a deep connection to lyrics.” In 2016, McLorin won a GRAMMY Award for her CD, WomanChild. Joey Alexander Born on June 25, 2003 on the island of Bali, pianist Joey Alexander originally learned about jazz from his dad, who exposed his son to a variety of classic albums from his extensive collection. At the age of six, Joey began teaching himself to play piano using a mini electronic keyboard given to him by his father. Joey’s musicianship and grasp of jazz fundamentals developed at a remarkable pace, and at age eight UNESCO invited him to play solo piano for an elated Herbie Hancock during the piano great’s visit to Indonesia. Joey later remarked to Hancock, “You told me that you believed in me, and that was the day I decided to dedicate my childhood to jazz.” At nine, Joey won the grand prize at the first Master-Jam Fest, an all-ages competition in Ukraine which included 200 competitors from 17 countries. By 10, he was performing at jazz festivals in both Jakarta and Copenhagen. An invitation from Wynton Marsalis led to his U.S. debut appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall in 2014 where he amazed the audience with his musicality, followed by appearances before the Jazz Foundation of America at the Apollo Theater and the Arthur Ashe Learning Center at Gotham Hall.