Jazz Forum Arts

Now in its thirty-second year, Jazz Forum Arts is one of the country’s premiere not-for-profit jazz presenters. Jazz Forum Arts brings top quality, live jazz music to wide audiences throughout the New York metropolitan area and is committed to the appreciation and understanding of this distinctly American art form. Jazz Forum Arts features established, emerging, and under-recognized artists as well as regional, national, and international musicians. Presenting jazz in its multifaceted styles, Jazz Forum Arts offers audiences Progressive and Bebop, Latin & Brazilian, World Music, Rhythm and Blues, New Orleans, Traditional, Swing and Contemporary Jazz. Jazz Forum Arts presents three dozen concerts each summer as part of our Free Summer Concerts Series, which features concerts held outdoors in several Westchester County, New York towns and villages. This summer marks our eighteenth consecutive year of two dozen or significantly more free concerts in Westchester County and the environs. We are proud of contributing to the cultural landscape in the New York metro area, and of the audiences we have cultivated and brought to the music, focusing on underserved communities. Our founding board members in 1985 included David Amram, Dizzy Gillespie, and Wynton Marsalis. On June 9, 2017, Jazz Forum Arts opened the Jazz Forum, Westchester’s only dedicated Jazz club with Roy Hargrove, followed by Bill Charlap, Catherine Russell, Freddy Cole and John Pizzarelli among others. The venue is an intimate listening room featuring internationally renowned Jazz artists on Fridays and Saturdays and Brazilian and various Jazz groups on Sundays. There is also an informal menu, full bar, pool room and art gallery.