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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.
Open Invitations

Produced by the NYU Steinhardt Jazz Studies program, in partnership with SubCulture, hosted by Dr. David Schroeder.
Marcus Miller
John McLaughlin
Janis Siegel
Chandrika Tandon
Steve Swallow
Mark Turner
John Scofield
Louis Hayes
Paul Winter
Gary Bartz
Stefon Harris
Lew Tabackin
Garden Map
Invitations
Events range from fully online to in-person at your local park.
Speaker's Corner
Speaker’s corners are lectures recorded by video. They range in time, from ten minutes to half-an-hour — each one provides at least one RRR perspective.
Greenhouse
A greenhouse serves as the garden library. But unlike a normal library, our greenhouses each hold a different species of knowledge.
Rhizome
We believe that knowledge and creativity can come from anyone, anywhere. Rhizome is our opportunity to create something new.
PArkademia
Coming Soon!
Speaker's Corner

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)

Improvisation in Physical and Compositional Spaces

Act – From Art to Protest: Jazz forms for Life
Greenhouse
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture
From the Minds of Jazz Musicians: Conversations with the Creative and Inspired
Sgt. Romare Bearden, with “Cotton Workers”
Swing Kids (1993)
Cold War (2018)
The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
Rhizome
Marcus Miller
John McLaughlin
Janis Siegel
Chandrika Tandon
Steve Swallow
Mark Turner
John Scofield
Louis Hayes
Paul Winter
Gary Bartz
Stefon Harris
Lew Tabackin
Speaker's Corner

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)

Improvisation in Physical and Compositional Spaces
