the CHARLESTON JAZZ INITIATIVE

About the CHARLESTON JAZZ INITIATIVE

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The Charleston Jazz Initiative (CJI) Circle is a “network” of local, national and international colleagues and advisors who help “connect” CJI principals and project staff to research, oral history interviewees, archival collections, public programming, original and creative work, and marketing and fundraising sources.

HONORARY CHAIR
Joseph P. Riley, Mayor, City of Charleston

CJI ADVISORS

Jeffrey Green
British Historian; Biographer of Edmund Thornton Jenkins; West Sussex, England

Wolfram Knauer
Director, Jazz-Institut, Darmstadt, Germany

Dan Morgenstern
Director, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University

Larry Ridley
Bassist; Executive Director, African American Jazz Caucus

Willie Ruff
Hornist and Bassist; Professor of Music, Yale University

A.B. Spellman
Poet, Critic and Author; Former Deputy Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts; Washington, DC

CJI Remembers...Alvin Batiste (1932-2007)

New Orleans Clarinetist, Educator, Composer

CJI Advisor, 2005-2007

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