Queens Jazz Alliance
a resource for jazz musicians and
fans of jazz in Queens
est. 2010 by
Tom
Zlabinger (York College / CUNY)
revised 8/1/10
Annual
High School Competitions
Charles
Mingus High School Competition, NYC (February)
Essentially
Ellington NATIONAL, NYC (May)
Essentially Ellington REGIONAL, Greenwich, CT (March)
Annual
Festivals
CUNY Jazz Festival, NYC (May)
Festival of New
Trumpet Music (FONT), NYC (variable)
Jamaica Arts & Music Festival (JAMS), Jamaica
(August)
St. Albans Jazz Festival, St. Albans (July)
The Vision
Festival (aka Arts for Art), NYC (June)
Clubs/Venues
– Queens
Cooking with
Jazz, Jamaica Estates (temporarily closed)
Flushing
Town Hall, Flushing
Illinois
Jacquet Performance Space (aka Jazz at the Chapel), Jamaica
Kupferberg
Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, Queens College, Flushing
LaGuardia Performing
Arts Center, Long Island City
Manhattan
Proper Cafˇ, Cambria Heights/St. Albans
Mixed Notes
Cafˇ, Elmont
York
College Performing Arts Center, Jamaica
Clubs/Venues
– Other
Birdland,
NYC
Blue Note, NYC
fat cat,
NYC
Iridium,
NYC
The Local 269,
NYC
smalls,
NYC
Jazz
Standard, NYC
MintonÕs Playhouse, NYC (open?)
The Stone,
NYC
The Village
Vanguard, NYC
Ensembles
– Professional
The
Astoria Big Band (Carol Sudhalter, dir.), Astoria
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra (Wynton Marsalis,
dir.), NYC
Mingus
Big Band / Dynasty / Orchestra (Sue Mingus, dir.), NYC
The Queens Jazz Orchestra (Jimmy Heath, dir.), Flushing
Something
Special Big Band (Paul Costa, dir.), Plainview
The
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (John Mosca, dir.), NYC
Yaozeki Big Band (John
Yao, dir.), Astoria
Ensembles
– Student / High School
All-City Jazz Ensemble (Dan Burwasser, dir.), NYC
Jazz Standard Youth
Orchestra (David O'Rourke, dir.), NYC
York
College Blue Notes (Tom
Zlabinger, dir.), Jamaica
Ensembles
– Student / College
Queens College Jazz
Ensemble (Michael
Mossman, dir.), Flushing
York
College Big Band (Tom
Zlabinger, dir.), Jamaica
Instrument
Stores
David Gage String
Instruments, NYC
RobertoÕs
Winds, NYC
Sam
Ash, Forest Hills
Sam
Ash, NYC
Jam
Sessions
ABC
NO Rio, NYC (most Sundays)
CleoptraÕs Needle,
NYC (varies)
fat
cat, NYC (every night from 12:30 a.m. until 4 a.m.)
Manhattan
Proper Cafˇ, Cambria Heights/St. Albans (Wednesdays)
smalls,
NYC (every night from midnight until close)
York
College / CUNY, Jamaica (occasionally)
Media
– Print (perodical)
All About Jazz
Media
– Print (other)
Media
– Radio
WBGO 88.3 FM,
Newark, NJ
WKCR
89.9 FM, NYC
Media
– Web
Museums
Louis
Armstrong House Museum, Corona
The
National Jazz Museum in Harlem, NYC
Promotion
/ E-Mail Lists
NYC-Improv (Yahoo
Group)
Organizations
– Local
Associated
Musicians of Greater New York / Local 802, NYC
Creative
Jazz Organization, St. Albans
Jazzmobile,
NYC
The Long Island City
Jazz Alliance, Long Island City
Music EducatorsÕ
Association of New York City (MEANYC), Long Island City
New York State
School Music Association (NYSSMA), Westbury
Organizations
– National
International Association of Jazz Education, Manhattan,
KS (defunct)
The Jazz
Education Network, Columbus, OH
MENC: The National
Association of Music Education, Reston, VA
Smithsonian
Jazz, Washington DC
Schools
– High School
Bayside HS, Bayside
Cardozo HS, Bayside
Forest Hills HS, Forest Hills
Frank Sinatra HS, Astoria
Grover Cleveland HS, Flushing
Humanities & Arts HS, Cambria Heights
John Bowne HS, Flushing
LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and
Performing Arts, NYC
Newcomers HS, Long Island City
Queens HS for the Sciences, Jamaica
Talent Unlimited HS, NYC
Townsend Harris HS, Flushing
William Bryant HS, Long Island City
Schools
– College
Aaron Copland
School of Music, Queens College / CUNY, Flushing
City College
/ CUNY, NYC
Five Towns College,
Dix Hills
Hunter College
/ CUNY, NYC
The Juilliard School,
NYC
LaGuardia
Community College / CUNY, Long Island City
Manhattan School of
Music, NYC
The New
School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, NYC
Purchase
College / SUNY, Purchase
Queensborough
Community College / CUNY, Bayside
Stony
Brook University / SUNY, Stony Brook
York
College / CUNY, Jamaica
Schools – Other
The Jazz Project, Queens College, Flushing
Lawrence Eisman
Center for Preparatory Studies in Music, Queens College, Flushing
Middle
School Jazz Academy, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC
York
College Summer Jazz Program (NYC public high school students only), Jamaica
Sheet
Music
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