The annual JEN conference offers a variety of events, including sessions and clinics to fit every attendee’s jazz interest. If you want to learn more about jazz education, research, technology, jazz industry and music business, improvisation, composition, panel discussions, and more, we have a session for you!

You can attend the JENerations Jazz Festival, where you’ll see and hear schools and community ensembles and groups perform and receive instruction and feedback from some of the most well-known educators and artists in the business. For more about JJF, CLICK HERE.

Here are the other program performances you can attend:

• Young Composer Showcase
• Sisters in Jazz Collegiate Combo
• JENerations Jazz Festival
• Scholarship/Benefit fundraiser concert

Finally, if you’re looking for some killer jazz performances, the annual JEN conference is the place to be! We have performances going on all day every day. Our evening concerts are second to none and worth the registration price alone. STOP BY OUR BILLY STRAYHORN EXHIBITOR BOOTH #206 AND SAY HELLO! 

The annual JEN conference offers a variety of events, including sessions and clinics to fit every attendee’s jazz interest. If you want to learn more about jazz education, research, technology, jazz industry and music business, improvisation, composition, panel discussions, and more, we have a session for you!

You can attend the JENerations Jazz Festival, where you’ll see and hear schools and community ensembles and groups perform and receive instruction and feedback from some of the most well-known educators and artists in the business. For more about JJF, CLICK HERE.

Here are the other program performances you can attend:

• Young Composer Showcase
• Sisters in Jazz Collegiate Combo
• JENerations Jazz Festival
• Scholarship/Benefit fundraiser concert

Finally, if you’re looking for some killer jazz performances, the annual JEN conference is the place to be! We have performances going on all day every day. Our evening concerts are second to none and worth the registration price alone. STOP BY OUR BILLY STRAYHORN BOOTH AND SAY HELLO!

The annual JEN conference offers a variety of events, including sessions and clinics to fit every attendee’s jazz interest. If you want to learn more about jazz education, research, technology, jazz industry and music business, improvisation, composition, panel discussions, and more, we have a session for you!

You can attend the JENerations Jazz Festival, where you’ll see and hear schools and community ensembles and groups perform and receive instruction and feedback from some of the most well-known educators and artists in the business. For more about JJF, CLICK HERE.

Here are the other program performances you can attend:

• Young Composer Showcase
• Sisters in Jazz Collegiate Combo
• JENerations Jazz Festival
• Scholarship/Benefit fundraiser concert

Finally, if you’re looking for some killer jazz performances, the annual JEN conference is the place to be! We have performances going on all day every day. Our evening concerts are second to none and worth the registration price alone. STOP BY THE BILLY STRAYHORN BOOTH #206 AND SAY HELLO!

The big band compositions of icons Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn are brought to life by the musicians of the Jacksonville Symphony for an evening of classic jazz. These two all-time greats, who worked together for 40 years, were equally famous for their 100 collaborations including Take The A Train, Satin Doll, Lush Life, and even their renditions of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. This concert combines the energy of Ellington and the sophistication of Strayhorn. Hear the orchestra transform as the velvety sounds of jazz are expressed through singing strings and the smooth vocals of captivating tenor Bernard Holcomb.

The big band compositions of icons Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn are brought to life by the musicians of the Jacksonville Symphony for an evening of classic jazz. These two all-time greats, who worked together for 40 years, were equally famous for their 100 collaborations including Take The A Train, Satin Doll, Lush Life, and even their renditions of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. This concert combines the energy of Ellington and the sophistication of Strayhorn. Hear the orchestra transform as the velvety sounds of jazz are expressed through singing strings and the smooth vocals of captivating tenor Bernard Holcomb.

Rapidly becoming a Phillips-audience favorite for his abilities as an improviser and crafter of nuanced programs that explore the conversations between jazz and classical idioms, pianist Aaron Diehl returns to the stage in a new collaboration with the up-and-coming vocalist and librettist Joshua Banbury. Banbury’s operatic libretti have been presented by Washington National Opera, The American Lyric Theater, Fort Worth Opera, and The Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts.

In a program that honors ignored figures in the history of African American music of the twentieth century, Diehl and Banbury pair together the music of Billy Strayhorn and Julius Eastman. Strayhorn spent much of his career in the thrall of Duke Ellington as a composer and arranger, only later receiving due credit for writing hits like Take the A Train and Lush Life. Similarly invisible in his own lifetime, composer Julius Eastman’s music has only recently been revived thanks to the passionate advocacy of a number of contemporary musicians. An experimental innovator whose style blurred the lines of art, music, and theatre, the ongoing Eastman revival shows the powerful endurance of art and expression on the margins.

 THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT!!

This event will be broadcast live from the Music Room on Sunday, January 15 at 4 PM. To reserve a ticket, follow the link www.phillipscollection.org to register. All registered ticket holders will receive a link directing them to a livestream webpage where the performance can be accessed. Ticket holders will be able to watch this performance “On Demand” for 48 hours following the broadcast time.