Jazz Interactions, Inc. is a non-profit-making organisation whose aim is "to stimulate a greater awareness of jazz by providing jazz information and educational services to New York metropolitan area"http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/entity.php?id=3970.

The organisation was founded by a group of jazz musicians including Joe Newman

Joe Newman (trumpeter)

Joseph Dwight Newman was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator, best known for his time with Count Basie....

, and apart from its educational activities it created the Jazz Interactions Orchestra. Jazz Interactions was the original administrator of the Jazz Oral History Project http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/IJS/OralHistory.html, before handing over responsibility to the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

 (who later passed it on to the Institute of Jazz Studies

Institute of Jazz Studies

The Institute of Jazz Studies is the largest and most comprehensive library and archive of jazz and jazz-related materials in the world, located at the Newark campus of Rutgers University.-History:...

, a research branch of the John Cotton Dana Library of Rutgers University

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

).

Sources and external links

• Contact details
• "I'm Still learning" — Joe Newman interviewed by Les Tomkins in 1977