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Mission: San Jose Jazz is a 22 year old 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to promoting jazz through performance and education. The organization is committed to serving one of the most richly diverse and rapidly growing regions in the U.S. Renowned for producing one of the finest jazz festivals in the U.S., San Jose Jazz is also an innovative educational organization whose commitment to education goes back over fifteen years and is at the very core of the organization’s mission.

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01/30/2013

San Jose Jazz puts on one of the nation's top jazz festivals and recently added a winter series. They also engage in youth education. It's been going since the 1980s, when it was started by Sammy Cohen and Henry Schiro. Though both are sadly gone from this earth, a new generation of leadership has taken over and kept the festival evolving, embracing funk and blues, with acts like George Clinton, Los Lobos and Amanda Shaw while continuing to attract top flight classic jazz musicians. One of San Jose's top cultural events.

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