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“the most imaginatively booked jazz club in New York”
THE JAZZ GALLERY
Where The Future Is Present.
We provide a platform for emerging artists to discover their unique voice, and a home for established musicians to continue to experiment and grow.
Our Mission
The Jazz Gallery is America’s premier performance venue for emerging artists who challenge convention, take creative risks and lead their field as performers, composers and thinkers. Through residencies, commissions, performances, and exhibitions, we provide a platform for artists to discover their unique voice and a home for established musicians to continue to experiment and grow while being committed to removing barriers to participation and to advancing a diverse representation of cultural backgrounds. At The Jazz Gallery, artists and audiences come together from around the world to explore new creative ideas, collaborate and celebrate jazz as a dynamic art form that reflects our ever- changing world.
Our Programs
RESIDENCY COMMISSIONS
The Jazz Gallery has a strong track record of nurturing compositional talent, having commissioned new work annually since 2002, which grants talented composers and bandleaders the resources to work on large-scale projects that will have enduring and transformative effects on their creative development. We encourage each artist to think outside their standard compositional toolbox and create something they may not otherwise have experimented with.
MENTOR SERIES
Mentorship has always been a key theme in jazz history. Most of today’s great jazz musicians were raised through informal channels and gained invaluable experience working alongside their heroes. Future generations of great jazz will depend on the continuation of this community-minded mentoring tradition that is, unfortunately, becoming less common as jazz education has become more formalized in conservatory and university settings. Our Mentor Series pairs a veteran of the art form with a younger musician, who then work together performing throughout the North-east at several venues.
DEBUT SERIES
Continuing our commitment to supporting young artists, our Debut Series has helped provide a platform artists who have not led groups on our stage, and in many cases within NYC, before. This group of artists reflects the current landscape of the jazz scene in NYC and beyond in terms of nationality, race, and gender, with its diversity indicative of the elasticity and expansive nature of jazz. Each artist brings ongoing creative projects to the stage, and use their dates as opportunities to showcase their work before our eager audiences.
“Jazz would not sound the way it does today had not The Jazz Gallery served as a locus for New York’s polyglot musical community to exchange ideas and work on moving to the next step.”
WITH SUPPORT FROM
The Jazz Gallery's programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
The Jazz Gallery's programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
The Jazz Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the Booth Ferris Foundation.
The Jazz Gallery was supported by New Music USA’s Organization Fund in 2023-24.
The Jazz Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation.