Press/Photos/Videos

Press

DownBeat Magazine (February 2011) - "New York Jazz Academy Expands Its Mission"
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Jazz Inside Magazine (September 2010) - Featured Interview with NYJA Program Director Javier Arau
Read the entire interview here.

Saxophone Journal (Nov./Dec. 2009) - Feature article by Program Director Javier Arau on NYJA's involvement with Walter Cronkite's funeral.
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Jazz Inside Magazine (October 2009) - Featured Interview with NYJA Program Director Javier Arau
Read the entire interview here.

Harlem News Read the entire interview here.

Photos

Photo Gallery: Check out NYJA in action!

Videos

NBC TV: "Today In New York"

Mixed Meter Workshop

Art Blakey Legacy Ensemble

NYJA Faculty Sextet: "One Note Samba"

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NYJA Faculty Quartet: "All The Things You Are"

CNBC TV: "Power Lunch"

Walter Cronkite Funeral Service: NYJA Classic Jazz All-Stars

Summer Jazz Workshops: Interviews

Summer Jazz Workshops: Javier Arau Improv Workshop

Summer Jazz Workshops: Dave Ambrosio Improv Workshop

Summer Jazz Workshops: Jazz Piano Class

Summer Jazz Workshops: Pete Zimmer Drum Workshop

Summer Jazz Workshops: Guitar Class

Vocal Jazz Workshop

Jelly Jamz Concert

Latin Jazz Workshop

Big Band Workshop Concert with Vocalists

Big Band Workshop Concert

Bebop Line Building Workshop

Jazz Guitar Workshop with Tom Dempsey

Teen Jazz Quartet Gig with NYC Mayor Bloomberg

Teen Improvisation Workshop

Jazz Improvisation Made Easy I

Junior Jazz Workshop Concert

Jazz Guitar Workshop with Dave Allen

Big Band Workshop Concert

Jazz Improvisation Made Easy II

Quotes

"Really great music." - Katie Couric, CBS 2 News (NYC)

"Walter would have loved it." - Barbara Walters, referring to the Walter Cronkite funeral recessional, performed by the New York Jazz Academy Classic Jazz All-Stars.

From Saxophone Journal, about NYJA program director Javier Arau: "In this, the era of specialization, musicians, just like those in other professions, have followed suit. Things were not always this way. In the 1700s musicians were not just performers, but also composers, arrangers, teachers, producers of concerts, guest soloists, copyists, conductors, contractors, etc. In fact, those who we remember best from that era, Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, Haydn and Mozart, as well as many other musicians, did it all; it was the accepted norm. Today there are very few who do it all, and of those who do an incredibly small proportion of them do it all extremely well. One who does is Javier Arau."

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