ABOUT JGI NEW YORK
The New York Community Initiative is anchored at Cafe Erzulie in Brooklyn but will reach across the entire city. It aims to build a more diverse grassroots audience for Great Black Music in New York; cultivate culturally active spaces; and support artists whose practices cross boundaries and create connections.
Focused on the local New Orleans community, is designed to foster creative experimentation and offer space for discussions, performances, presentations, and workshops. Housed at Historic St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s Gaudet Hall - named in honor of Saint Frances Joseph-Gaudet, a late 19th - early 20th century Black American educator, social worker and prison reformer - The Creative Hub encourages projects and gatherings that draw upon themes of creativity, social awareness, and mental wellness.
The 2-week Bamboula residencies are held at The New Quorum, a 19th century Creole mansion in the heart of the 7th ward New Orleans on the beautiful, tree-lined Esplanade Ridge. Artists, writers, and scholars are invited to rejuvenate and work on a project of their own choosing during their residency. All residents are given the opportunity to provide one public sharing. Musicians have the opportunity to use our rental facilities at The Historic St. Luke’s Episcopal Church sanctuary and Sisco Room for practice spaces.
FELLOWS
Courtney Bryan
Co-P.I.
Co-P.I.
Composer and pianist Courtney Bryan is the New Orleans Co-P.I. of the Jazz Generations Initiative. Dr. Bryan is the Albert and Linda Mintz Professor of Music at Newcomb College in the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University. Her music is published by Boosey & Hawkes, and she is a Steinway Artist and 2023 MacArthur Fellow. Recent accolades include the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (2018), Samuel Barber Rome Prize in Music Composition (2019–2020), United States Artists Fellowship (2020), and the Camargo Foundation Fellowship (2025). She currently serves as composer-in-residence with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.
The Continuum Fellowship is a group of New York-based musicians and multidisciplinary artists, all under age 50, who have been invited to curate a series of concerts crossing generations and artistic media. Each fellow will curate a four-event residency at a different location in New York. Read more about the Continuum Fellows below.
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The JGI presents a major concert in New York once a quarter, bringing together performers of different generations and musical approaches to celebrate the living art form of jazz. These concerts are always complemented by a series of satellite events in the surrounding community.
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The Soundoff Sessions are a biweekly series of performances and open sessions taking place on Thursday nights at Cafe Erzulie in Brooklyn, on the Bed-Stuy/Bushwick border.
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