The Jazz Connect Conference at APAP|NYC 2014, organized by JazzTimes in conjunction with the Jazz Forward Coalition, has announced that pre-registration for the event has been extended through January 2. One of the largest gatherings of the professional jazz community, the Jazz Connect Conference will be held January 9-10, 2014 at the Hilton New York in New York City and will feed into the annual APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters) Conference as well as Winter Jazzfest.
Jana La Sorte of Ambassadora is organizing an "Ask the Experts" networking session in which emerging artists and professionals can meet 1:1 for 10 minutes with various jazz professionals in four categories: Recording, Management & Legal; Booking & Touring; Publicity, Promotion & Airplay; Marketing & Distribution. That session will be held on Thursday, January 9 at 3:45 pm. Interested parties should send an e-mail to jazzconnectnyc@gmail.com specifying the categories they would like to participate in or simply sign up on-site.
In addition, the conference program includes a reprise of the "Cutting Through the Clutter" session, in which a panel of esteemed artist development professionals (manager, agent, record label, venue/festival, et al) evaluate artists and their projects - including the music and the marketing. Any artist interested in submitting their music to be part of this session should send a request to
jazzconnectnyc@gmail.com
Ben Cameron, Program Director for the Arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, will be the keynote speaker for the conference. In addition to Cameron's address, the keynote plenary session will feature short inspirational presentations or "solos" by jazz professionals and artists, including Wendy Oxenhorn (Jazz
Foundation of America), Eddie Palmieri,
Patricia Parker (Arts for Art), Meghan Stabile (Revive Music Group) and Janis Burley Wilson (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust). Focusing on the conference theme of "The Road Ahead," these five soloists will share their experiences and talk about the challenges facing them as well as the jazz community at large.
The rest of the Jazz Connect Conference at APAP|NYC will feature a collection of essential workshops, panels and events held over the course of two days. The conference will bring together a wide cross-section of the jazz community for 12 workshops and 5 plenary sessions, on topics such as: "Navigating
Social Media"; "The Role of
Education in Presenting Jazz"; "The New
Paradigm for Record Labels"; "Radio Airplay & Promotion 101"; "Jazz Grantmaking"; "Expanding the Language of Jazz"; "Engaging the Jazz Media Gatekeepers"; "New Models and Streams for Presenting Jazz" and other timely and engaging subjects. Moderators and panelists include an impressive cross-section of artists and professionals. For a complete schedule and list of speakers, visit the
conference website.
Pre-registration is only $100 until January 2, with additional discounts offered to members of various organizations, such as AFM, JJA, JazzWeek, Chamber Music
America and others. Registration is free for APAP members, although they must pre-register at
www.jazz-connect.com.
For more information about the Jazz Connect conference, you can e-mail
jazzconnectnyc@gmail.com.
To pre-register for the conference, go to the
Jazz Connect website.
