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Welcome
The Jazz Garden
We are a group of scholars, educators, activists and artists who are on a mission to design gardens of knowledge and creativity, through which we seek to promote research, learning and artistic creativity around diverse fields of knowledge.
This particular garden was planned within the philosophical and artistic principles of Jazz. In its commitment to improvisation, inner truth, dialogue, polyrhythm and social consciousness, Jazz is especially relevant to today’s age of technological automation, social distancing, and cultural polarization.
We invite you to visit the speaker’s corners, to enter the greenhouses, to walk through the flowerbeds — and to contribute to various concepts and projects that are currently germinating throughout the garden. We invite you to join us and become a gardener yourself, by planting and nurturing your own ideas within the garden’s architecture, or just by wandering, dwelling, and meditating in an open field of knowledge.
Greenhouse
Produced by the NYU Steinhardt Jazz Studies program, in partnership with SubCulture, hosted by Dr. David Schroeder.
Marcus Miller
Acknowledgement
Wayne Shorter
Jazz
Chris Potter
Practice
John McLaughlin
Liberation
John Patitucci
Migration
Janis Siegel
Listen
Jack DeJohnette
Creativity
Kenny Burrell
Uniqueness
Chandrika Tandon
Perfection
Hubert Laws
Divinity and Nature
Joe Lovano
Library
Steve Swallow
The Perfect Note
Richard Bona
Improvisation and Repetition
Lenny White
Light
Mark Turner
Expectations
John Scofield
Self
Louis Hayes
Me
Paul Winter
Hearing
Gary Bartz
Band
Stefon Harris
Empathy
Lew Tabackin
One Note
International Jazz Day 2022
The Jazz Garden opens its doors in honor of
International Jazz Day 2022 and invites you to an
experiential study space that is all about jazz
Rhizome
Projects in various stages of growth seeking contributions, collaborators and more.
Past Invitations
Rhizome

Fretless Memories
Hear: The Three ‘Giant Steps’ Turnarounds
Act: Successive Tonal Centers — Beyond Jazz
Traneology: A Conversation with Dave Liebman
Artistic Research In Light Of The Pandemic: New Avenues For Music And Society
Hear – The Mind of Music: Jazz Forms in Life
Keeping Time: Negotiating History in Recent Musical Films
Think – Jazz forms of Life (A Trio)
Money Jungle: Reviving the Rent Party While Caring for the Legacy of jazz in NYC
Improvisation in Physical and Compositional Spaces
Act – From Art to Protest: Jazz forms for Life
PArkademia
Coming soon!