The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 2018 Gala Benefit Concert Sponsorship Opportunity Featuring Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble Multi-GRAMMY Award Winning Artist Jon Batiste National Jazz Museum in Harlem Co-artistic Director Honoring Bertha Hope Pianist & Composer Legends of Jazz Award Tuesday, June 12, 2018 The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues 1 Dear Friends, We are pleased to announce the National Jazz Museum in Harlem’s upcoming fifth annual Benefit Concert Gala, and invite you to partner with us as a sponsor of this exciting event. 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. It has been called a jewel in the cultural crown of the Harlem community. This year, we will feature highly acclaimed, multi-GRAMMY Award winning pianist, composer and educator Arturo O’Farrill and his Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble; and our own co-artistic director, the multi-gifted Jon Batiste. The extraordinary composer and pianist Bertha Hope will be our Legends of Jazz recipient. The Museum was founded in 1997 by the late Leonard Garment, Counsel to two U.S. Presidents and accomplished jazz saxophonist. A Congressional Appropriation, an initial gift by former Federal Judge Abe Sofaer, and support from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone soon followed. Twenty-one years later, the Museum, in our new location in Central Harlem on 129th Street, has seen extraordinary growth, reaches nearly 20,000 people annually from across the U.S. and around the world. 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. Each year, we produce and present more than 80 free programs in New York City making us a hub for live performances, exhibits and education programs. Our programs feature jazz musicians and scholars renowned in the field. 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, and in 2017 received the prestigious Grand Prix Award from the Hot Club of France for two of those releases. Education is central to our mission and we offer year-round educational programs for students of all ages. Our membership program has benefits with exclusive content that reaches out to the worldwide jazz community. We hope you will make a difference by supporting The National Jazz Museum in Harlem and being part of our jazz community. Thank you. Cordially, Timothy L. Porter Tracy Hyter-Suffern Chair Executive Director Board of Trustees Co-Artistic Directors Timothy L. Porter, Chair Jonathan Batiste Jonathan Scheuer, Vice Chair Christian McBride Daryl A. Libow, Secretary Mark A. Willis, Treasurer Ken Burns Staff Neal Dittersdorf Tracy Hyter-Suffern, Executive Director Wynton Marsalis Loren Schoenberg, Senior Scholar Kenneth McIntyre Jeremiah Briley, Visitor Services Assistant Robert L. Nelson, Jr. Carla Eilo, Operations Manager Dean Schomburg Sam Ginsberg, Education Assistant Richard S. Taffet Ryan Maloney, Samuel Turvey Director of Education & Programming Lloyd Williams Emile Turner, Visitor Services Assistant 2 PUBLIC PROGRAMS Jazz for Curious Listeners This evening program takes an in-depth look at jazz through conversations, Programming 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. Charanee Wade performs a family concert at the Jazz Museum. photo credit: Richard Conde 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 festivals 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 just some of the musicians 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. Currently, four volumes of the Savory Collection are available on iTunes with a limited edition, 6-CD box set being released this April through Mosaic Records. 3 • You will be in good company with past sponsors and donors: Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, KPMG, Verizon, the National Why become 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 a sponsor? among manyothers. • You will be supporting us in preserving, presenting and promoting the knowledge and appreciation of the most quintessential American music. Marc Carey performs on Duke Ellington’s piano at the Jazz Museum. • 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. 4 Arturo O’Farrill pianist, composer, and educator, was born in Mexi- co and grew up in New York City. He received his formal musical edu- cation at the Manhattan School of Music, Brooklyn College Conservato- ry, and the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. Arturo’s professional career began with the Carla Bley Band and continued as a Featured solo performer with a wide spectrum of artists including Dizzy Gilles- pie, Lester Bowie, Wynton Marsalis, and Harry Belafonte. Artists In 2007, he founded the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance as a not-for- profit organization dedicated to the performance, education, and preservation of Afro Latin music. In December 2010, Arturo traveled with the original Chico O’Farrill Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra to Cuba, returning his father’s musicians to his homeland. He continues to travel to Cuba regularly as an informal Cultural Ambassador, working with Cuban musicians, dancers, and students, bringing local musicians from Cuba to the US and American musicians to Cuba. Concurrently, Arturo is the Director of Jazz Studies at CUNY’s Brooklyn College. During 2016-2018, Arturo has performed with orchestras and bands including his own Afro Latin Jazz photo credit: Laura Marie Orchestra and Boss Level Sextet, as well as other Orchestras and smaller ensembles in the US, Europe, Russia, Australia, and South America. An avid supporter of all the Arts, Arturo has performed with Ballet Hispanico and the Malpaso Dance Company, for whom he has written three ballets. In addition, the Alvin Ailey Dance Company is touring a ballet entitled “Open Door,” choreographed by Ron Brown to several of Arturo’s compositions and recordings. Ron Brown’s own Evidence Dance Company has commissioned Arturo to compose New Conversations, which premieres Summer of 2018 at Jacob’s Pillow in Becket, MA. Arturo has received commissions from Meet the Composer, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Philadelphia Music Project, The Apollo Theater, Symphony Space, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Young Peoples Chorus of New York, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Arturo’s well-reviewed and highly praised “Afro-Latin Jazz Suite” from the album CUBA: The Conversation Continues (Motéma) took the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition and the 2016 Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. His powerful “Three Revolutions” from the album Familia-Tribute to Chico and Bebo was the 2018 Grammy Award (his sixth) winner for Best Instrumental Composition. 5 Jon Batiste is an internationally acclaimed musician, bandleader and composer.