The National Jazz Museum in Harlem
Smithsonian A liate
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 inThe 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.
His 2015 debut album for Motéma Music, My Favorite Things, garnered two GRAMMY Award nominations for “Best Jazz Instrumental Album” and “Best Improvised Solo” for his performance of John Coltrane’s Giant Steps, making him the youngest jazz artist ever nominated for a GRAMMY. Wynton Marsalis says of Joey, “There has never been anyone that you can think of who could play like that at his age. I love everything about his playing– his rhythm, his confidence, his understanding of the music.” Building upon the swing and improvisational style that made his first project a critical and popular success, his new album, Countdown (Motéma) is a reflection of the growth and maturity of Joey Alexander as an artist, and a confident next step toward a limitless future. HONOREES
Randy Weston — Legend of Jazz Award After contributing six decades of musical direction and genius, Randy Weston remains one of the world’s foremost pianists and composers today, a true innovator and visionary. Encompassing the vast rhythmic heritage of Africa, his global creations musically continue to inform and inspire. “Weston has the biggest sound of any jazz pianist since Ellington and Monk, as well as the richest most inventive beat,” states jazz critic Stanley Crouch, “but his art is more than projection and time; it’s the result of a studious and inspired intelligence...an intelligence that is creating a fresh synthesis of African elements with jazz technique.”
Randy Weston, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1926, didn’t have to travel far to hear the early jazz giants that were to influence him. Though Weston cites Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Art Tatum, and of course, Duke Ellington as his other piano heroes, it was Monk who had the greatest impact.
Weston has made more than fifty recordings throughout his lifetime, the most celebrated including African Cookbook, Little Niles, Blue Moses, Berkshire Blues, Uhuru Africa (in collaboration with arranger Melba Liston,) and GRAMMY-nominated Tanjah and Carnaval. A prolific composer, Weston’s highly individualistic works have been recorded by jazz virtuosi like Max Roach, Monty Alexander, Dexter Gordon, Jimmy Heath, Kenny Burrell, Abbey Lincoln, Bobby Hutchinson, Lionel Hampton, and Cannonball Adderley. Weston is an articulate spokesman on the pivotal position of African music, dance, and other arts within world culture; on the diversity and importance of Africa’s vast musical resources; and on encouraging true cultural exchange and mutual learning between creative artists.
Weston has received The National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Masters Award, The French Order Of Arts And Letters Award, three-time Composer of the Year award from the DownBeat Magazine and induction into the DownBeat Hall of Fame, among many other honors and awards.
Jazzmobile — Jazz And Community Leadership Award Created in 1964, Jazzmobile is the first U.S. not-for-profit arts and cultural organization just for jazz. Since the beginning, it has been bringing high- quality jazz performances and education programs to area residents, tourists and other visitors, and it has served over four million people living in or visiting New York City.
Whether on the street, in a park or at a major concert hall here or abroad, Jazzmobile works in partnership with like-minded organizations to present quality jazz performances that enrich the culture and imbue new life into the surrounding area.
Its workshops, master classes, lecture demonstrations, and arts enrichment programs are training the next generation of jazz vocalists and musicians; and exposing youth to this vibrant art form. Its aim is to reach out to communities where jazz was nurtured and new forms born.
The organization was an inspiration to other organizations such as The Manchester Craftsman’s Guild and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Together with the Central Park Conservancy Jazzmobile created the annual “Great Jazz on the Great Hill”; established New York City’s longest – over 50 years – continuous Jazz Festival: SUMMERFEST; and produced the first jazz performance at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors in 1964. Jazzmobile continues to reach national and international audiences, touring locally, regionally, across the United States, Europe, Asia and Canada. HONOREES
Arthur H. Barnes –– Former Chair of the Board of Trustees of The National Jazz Museum in Harlem
From 1993 - 2008, Arthur H. Barnes was HIP Health Plan of New York’s Senior Vice President for External Affairs and Corporate Contributions, where his primary responsibility was to promote the health, arts and culture of the diverse communities that make up New York City.
For almost 20 years before joining HIP, Mr. Barnes was President and CEO of the New York Urban Coalition. From 1972-1975, he was Vice President for Mediation Services at the Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution. Prior to that, he had a 21-year association with Consolidated Mutual Insurance Companies, where he started his career as a file clerk and worked his way up to become Vice President of Administration.
Mr. Barnes is currently a Trustee of Grammercy Park. He has served on numerous volunteer boards including the New York Public Library. He was formerly Chair of The National Jazz Museum in Harlem and member of the Board of Governors for the Jazz and Contemporary Music Program at New School University. He was a founding member of the New York City Partnership, Associated Black Charities and Black Agency Executives; former President of One Hundred Black Men, Inc., and Black Agency Executives; and former Vice President of the Police Athletic League Board of Directors.
Born and raised in Harlem, New York City, Mr. Barnes attended the Bronx High School of Science and Brooklyn College. 2017 GALA BENEFIT CONCERT Wednesday, June 14, 2017 Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
SPONSORSHIP LEVELS
$50,000 PRODUCER • Named sponsor of the VIP Reception • 25 prime orchestra tickets for the concert • 25 tickets to VIP reception • Performance by Jazz Museum’s All Star Big Band or a jazz quitentet led by a renowned jazz artist at a sponsor event of your choice • Full-page ad in the evening’s program • Acknowledgment listing in the evening’s program • Premier placement of logo on banners • Recognition in bi-weekly email blasts sent to over 12,000 constituents • Recognition on Museum’s website $25,000 PLATINUM • Named co-sponsor of the VIP Reception • 20 prime orchestra tickets for the concert • 20 tickets to VIP reception • Performance by Jazz Museum’s Jazz Trio at a sponsor event of your choice • Half-page ad in the evening’s program • Acknowledgement listing in the evening’s program • Premier placement of logo on banners • Recognition in bi-weekly email blasts sent to over 12,000 constituents • Recognition on Museum’s website $15,000 GOLD • 15 prime orchestra tickets for the concert • 15 tickets to VIP reception • Quarter-page ad in the evening’s program • Acknowledgement listing in the evening’s program • Premier placement of logo on banners • Recognition in bi-weekly email blasts sent to over 12,000 constituents • Recognition on Museum’s website $10,000 SILVER • 10 prime orchestra tickets for the concert • 10 tickets to VIP reception • One-eighth page ad in the evening’s program • Acknowledgement listing in the evening’s program • Premier placement of logo on banners • Recognition in bi-weekly email blasts sent to over 12,000 constituents • Recognition on Museum’s website $5,000 SIGNATURE • 6 prime orchestra tickets for the concert • 6 tickets to VIP reception • Acknowledgement listing in the evening’s program • Placement of logo on banners • Recognition in bi-weekly email blasts sent to over 12,000 constituents • Recognition on Museum’s website $2,500 SUPPORTING • 4 prime orchestra tickets to concert • 4 tickets to VIP reception • Acknowledgement listing in the evening’s program • Recognition on Museum’s website
2017 GALA BENEFIT CONCERT Wednesday, June 14, 2017 Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
SPONSORSHIP AGREEMENT FORM
Please confirm your sponsorshipon or before May 22, 2017 by completing the information below. Scan and email to [email protected], or mail, with payment, to the address below.
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We agree to sponsor the 2017 Benefit Concert of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem at the following level:
• Producer $50,000 • Platinum $25,000 • Gold $15,000 • Silver $10,000 • Signature $5,000 • Supporting $2,500 • Individual Benefactor and Patron tickets – see the next page
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PLEASE PROVIDE FULL PAYMENT WITH THE COMPLETED SPONSORSHIP AGREEMENT FORM.
You may satisfy payment by calling us, visiting our website at www.jmih.org and clicking on “Make a Donation,” or sending a check to:
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 58 West 129th Street, Ground Floor New York, NY 10027
For more information please contact: 212-348-8300 or [email protected] 2017 GALA BENEFIT CONCERT Wednesday, June 14, 2017 Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
SPONSORSHIP AGREEMENT FORM
Please secure your tickets on or before May 15, 2017 by completing the information below. Scan and email to [email protected], or mail, with payment, to the address below.
Contact Name:______
Company:______
Address:______
City, State, Zip:______
Phone:______Fax:______
Email:______
Please List in Printed Materials as:______
___ VIP Benefactor Ticket(s) $1,000 ($800 tax deductible) Includes 2 prime orches- tra seats, invitation to VIP reception, and special mention in concert program.
___ VIP Patron Ticket (s) $600 ($480 tax deductible) Includes 1 prime orchestra seat, invitation to VIP reception and special mention in concert program.
• Unable to attend but would like to make a contribution of $______
Signature:______Date:______
Title:______
PLEASE PROVIDE FULL PAYMENT WITH THE COMPLETED SPONSORSHIP AGREEMENT FORM.
You may satisfy payment by calling us, visiting our website at www.jmih.org and clicking on “Make a Donation,” or sending a check to:
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 58 West 129th Street, Ground Floor New York, NY 10027
For more information please contact: 212-348-8300 or [email protected]