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Mission

"The gift of music is to bring people together, to create not only a shared identity, but to embrace a shared humanity. To truly know ourselves is to realize how we are connected to each other.

Many people this evening have described the beauty, the Creole and spice, the gumbo that is New Orleans; the African roots, blues, gospel and many other musical traditions that have come together to create that uniquely American art form: Jazz.

And the meaning of jazz, is Life. Whether we receive it as a blend of many notes reflecting diverse traditions, or as John Coltrane might have it: as one note, played in endless variations. Let us commit ourselves to the service of life ."

Harry Belafonte

Advisors to the Executive Director

Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County
Kurt Elling (Singer, Educator)
Five Towns College
Grammy Foundation
Nat Hentoff (Writer, Historian)
Tim Jackson (Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Monterey Jazz Festival)
Phoebe Jacobs (Louis Armstrong Foundation)
A. J. Julian (Director Woody Herman Society)
MacArthur Foundation
Wynton Marsalis (Musician, Educator)
Cathy Segal - Garcia (Singer, Educator)
National Endowment for the Arts
Jonathon Schwartz (Radio Broadcaster Great American Songbook)
Dr. Billy Taylor (Jazz Pianist, Educator)

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Last modified: June 28, 2004