Location: The Interchurch Center, 61 Claremont Ave, NY, NY 10115. Gibson, in collaboration with Jazzmobile. June 15, 2022, 7:00 PM – Swinging Into Summer with dancer/choreographer Mickey Davidson and Friends including Dexter Jones, Trashina Conner, Theara Ward, Brandon Barker, Adante Powers and Brian Davis, and the Jazz Power Swingtet with Eli Yamin, James Zollar, Claire Daly, Jason Curry, Michael Blake, Michael Rorby, Jason Clotter, and David F. Rain location: Church of the Intercession, SE corner of Broadway and 155 th Street, NY, NY 10032. Location: Hispanic Society Museum & Library, Broadway Between 155 th and 156 th Streets, NY, NY 10032. June 11, 2022, 3:00 PM – Hear My Voice, highlights of jazz musicals by Eli Yamin and Clifford Carlson, directed by Mickey Davidson, Antoinette Montague and Eli Yamin and featuring students from Jazz Power Youth Performance Workshop, and Listen To The People, a premiere presentation by Eli Yamin and Zah! Jazz Power Singers featuring Jazz Power Emerging Artist in Residence, Joie St. Aguilar (music director), Antoinette Montague and Sofia Tosello (voice teaching artists). The show is written and directed by PS4 music teacher Jose Cantu and presented in collaboration with Mickey Davidson (co-director/ choreographer), and Annette A. June 10, 2022, 5:00 PM – Why We Matter, an original play with music that imagines interactions between students and great women in music, dance and literature, including Celia Cru z, Mercedes Ellington and Quiara Alegria Hudes performed by students of Jazz Power Prep at PS4 Duke Ellington School. The event schedule and line-up for our 2022 Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam Festival 2022 is: After these two years of online programming, with our Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam Festival 2022, we are ready to go back to our Northern Manhattan communities of Washington Heights, Inwood and Harlem, to energize and empower them with the music that was born here, and to prolong its influence and love from future generations for years to come.” – Eli Yamin, Jazz Power Initiative Managing and Artistic Director “Our first Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam Festival features a range of artists of all ages, backgrounds and disciplines, to draw the community into the joy and the healing power of jazz. These include a premiere of a new music commission, based on the poem “Black Notes” by Sandra Maria Estevez, and selected highlights from our original Jazz Power musicals for K-12 students, with songs addressing socially relevant themes such as facing climate change, embracing diversity, navigating young adulthood, standing up for voting rights, and sharing the healing power of the blues. Our Intergenerational Jazz Power Summer Jam Festival is a public series of free, family-friendly, public concerts for general audiences of all ages, and features a cross-cultural, multidisciplinary and intergenerational array of professional jazz music and acclaimed performing artists presenting both classics and original, contemporary works. Our Intergenerational Jazz Power Summer Jam Festival 2022 is produced by Jazz Power Initiative, an Inwood-based non-profit organization founded in 2003, and presented for the first time in collaboration with Jazzmobile’s Sessions at the Interchurch Center in West Harlem, and our new public partner, The Hispanic Society Museum and Library in Washington Heights. New York City, – Jazz Power Initiative is proud to present our inaugural Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam Festival 2022, a 4-part jazz music performance series of family-friendly concerts in Northern Manhattan during June 2022, spotlighting the creative connections today between the African American and Latin American roots of jazz.
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