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Our programs Supporting Jazz in Cincinnati:​

  • Jazz at Dusk (JAD): Public venues for students to perform.

  • John Von Ohlen Scholarship: to eligible HS students

  • John DeFoor Jazz Master Class: to deserving HS jazz students

  • All That Cincinnati Jazz Radio Show: Mondays at 9pm on WMKV(89.3)/WLHS(89.9)

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Inductees:

Carmon Deleone, Dave Matthews, Greg Chako,

Patsy Meyer, Joe Rogers

John DeFoor Jazz Master Classes

HONORING CINCINNATI'S RICH JAZZ HISTORY

Available to Greater Cincinnati area high schools, this program is designed to help preserve, promote and support Jazz Education while reaching out to those special high school students wanting to learn more about our area's rich jazz history. In addition there will be LIVE demos and listening sessions with Q&A time by Cincinnati's Best Jazz Education/Musicians.  
To set up a date and time at your school, please contact.
Jazz Master Class Chair: Sue Brown

sara.sue12@hotmail.com or call 513-283-4674

THE CINCINNATI JAZZ HALL OF FAME

is dedicated to the preservation, appreciation and celebration of the American indigenous art form of jazz. Our missions is to build and sustain further interest and audiences for jazz, and honor the significant contributors in the greater Cincinnati area for their work in artistic, educational, and promotional advancement of this art form. The Cincinnati Jazz Hall of Fame will carry out its mission through an annual recognition celebration of inductees, musical scholarships and jazz arts
programming via exhibits.  


For further information on the annual CJHoF High School Jazz Scholarship to be awarded to a deserving area graduating high school senior going into the field of Jazz Studies/Education/Performance/Production please contact Sue Brown by emailing

sara.sue12@hotmail.com or texting 513-283-4674

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