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Our mission is to illuminate and build applied societal competencies centered upon Jazz music as the only global contribution to the arts originating from the United States. We do this by engaging the next generation with programming that is purposefully centered on learning to create living wage arts infrastructure through challenging, meaningful, and inspiring experiences.
— Christopher and Terri (Anderson) Burnett
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+ Artists Recording Collective
The ARTISTS RECORDING COLLECTIVE (ARC) is a new concept recorded music label brand and business model that’s home to both artistic and scholarly audio publishers. ARC began in 2007 with the 3 founding artists and 1 release. The label is now a nonprofit program of Kansas City Area Youth Jazz Inc. ARC also has a catalog of 150 published recordings that feature nearly 500 recording artists from all generations. The entire Artists Recording Collective (ARC RECORD LABEL) catalog has been accepted by the Kansas Historical Society and will be a permanent part of the Kansas Museum of History. The ARC Collection will include: (1) updated Label Catalog; (2) updated Artist Roster; (3) physical album products; (4) digital audio files; and, (5) related collateral documentation, press materials, and news items.
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+ Bird Boot Camp and Musical Salute
BIRD BOOT CAMP began in 2014 as the educational component part of the original Charlie Parker celebration that was initiated (Spotlight: Charlie Parker) by the Jazz catalyst nonprofit organization, Kansas City Jazz A.L.I.V.E. The originator of the Boot Camp program idea was Greg Carroll, who partnered with Clarence Smith and successfully modeled their one-day educational (Charlie Parker Student Music Boot Camp) event after some of the premier jazz camps and other music education programming they’d developed or initiated at various points in their respective professional careers over the years. Spotlighting the life and musical contributions of Charlie Parker, Jr. (b. August 29, 1920, Kansas City, Kansas – d. March 12, 1955, New York, New York) by the entire greater Kansas City metropolitan area community was also considered to be long overdue among this initial consortium of noted artists, educators, Jazz venue owners, and arts institutions in the region. The Gem Theater and The Folly Theater have also hosted this program. In 2019, Kansas City Area Youth Jazz Inc. was asked to take over the program and has ever since performed the primary role of artistic director and administrator, handling every detail of Bird Boot Camp – from the itinerary schedule for the day, booking artists and clinicians, organizing a coherent program, to funding the entire event through sponsorships, donations, and grants to preclude possible financial barriers to participation.
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+ Kansas City Area Youth Jazz
Our mission is to illuminate and build applied societal competencies centered upon Jazz music as the only global contribution to the arts originating from the United States. We do this by engaging the next generation with programming that is purposefully centered on learning to create living wage arts infrastructure through challenging, meaningful, and inspiring experiences. We conduct rigorous auditions for Fellowships in February and announce the selections in March each year. Rehearsals are on Sunday evenings during our season of April, May, June, and July with no rehearsals on Labor Day or Fourth of July weekends. Youth Jazz Fellows perform a Showcase Concert in July and also perform paid performances in the greater KC area community. Commitment to attend all rehearsals and performances is required. The season culminates in recording an album in a professional recording studio that’s released worldwide on a professional record label. Here’s the link to our website where you can learn more about the copyrighted Kansas City Area Youth Jazz program model 🔗 https://YOUTHJAZZ.US
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+ Jazz Artistry Now
Jazz Artistry Now: a digital arts magazine since 2007. Jazz Artistry Now is a program element of the next generation focused nonprofit organization Kansas City Area Youth Jazz. JAN affords the opportunity each season for fellows to provide critical opinion and commentary on the music industry of today while approaching such opportunities with a guided understanding of the role and practice of jazz journalism.
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