Jazz Interactions

Jazz Interactions, Inc. is a non-profit-making organization whose aim is "to stimulate a greater awareness of jazz by providing jazz information and educational services to New York metropolitan area."

The organization was founded in the early 1960s^[1] by a group of jazz musicians including Joe Newman and fans including fellow-founder Ernest M. Searle, Jr, and apart from its educational activities it created the , the Jazz-Line, a telephone line that gave information on Jazz performances throughout the New York City Metro area, and promoted the Jazzmobile, a traveling stage that was used throughout New York City and Long Island, bringing free jazz concerts to many neighborhoods. Jazz Interactions was the original administrator of the ,^[2] before handing over responsibility to the Smithsonian Institution (who later passed it on to the Institute of Jazz Studies, a research branch of the John Cotton Dana Library of Rutgers University).

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^ Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John, eds. (2001). "Jazz Interactions, Inc.". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan.‎
^ "Jazz Oral History Project", Institute of Jazz Studies (a research branch of the John Cotton Dana Library of the Rutgers University Libraries).

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"I'm Still learning" — Joe Newman interviewed by Les Tomkins in 1977

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[1] Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John, eds. (2001). "Jazz Interactions, Inc.". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan.‎

[2] "Jazz Oral History Project", Institute of Jazz Studies (a research branch of the John Cotton Dana Library of the Rutgers University Libraries).

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