Loren Schoenberg is a jazz historian, writer of liner notes

Liner notes

Liner notes are the writings found in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.-Origin:...

, and tenor saxophonist

Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...

. He began playing tenor saxophone in 1974 and by the late 1970s he was playing professionally with Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman

Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing".In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America...

. In 1981 he formed his own band, his music might be most associated with the swing (genre)

Swing (genre)

Swing music, also known as swing jazz or simply swing, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and became a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States...

.

He is a co-winner of the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes

Grammy Award for Best Album Notes

The Grammy Award for Best Album Notes has been presented since 1964. From 1973 to 1976, a separate award was presented for Best Album Notes - Classical. Those awards are listed under those years below. The award recognizes albums with excellent liner notes...

.

Loren Schoenberg told John Brown in an interview found on The Jazz Museum in Harlem's website.

"Some people say to me, 'You should have been born fifty years earlier'…. Of course I would have grown up to the great music of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. And I'd have probably spent my life interviewing the widow of Scott Joplin!"

A historian by nature, Loren Schoenberg became a fixture in the jazz world with his encyclopedic knowledge about the genre and passion for preserving its past while making it eminently contemporary. Today, in addition to his work performing, conducting, writing, preaching and teaching, Schoenberg has been named Executive Director of The Jazz Museum in Harlem.

Loren Schoenberg was born July 22, 1958 in Fairlawn, New Jersey. His father worked for the New York Telephone Company. His mother, a children's librarian, began teaching Loren the piano when he was three. A year later, she found a neighborhood piano teacher to take her son beyond simple scales. Schoenberg's love of old films led him to Benny Goodman, and his love of Goodman's music made Schoenberg a jazz fan in the early 1970s. Jazz's heyday as a popular music form was over by that point, and while Schoenberg was collecting classic 78 rpm records by jazz originators like Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....

, Jelly Roll Morton

Jelly Roll Morton

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe , known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer....

, and "Fats" Waller

Fats Waller

Fats Waller , born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer...

, most of his peers were busy listening to rock and roll and folk music.

Scholars disagree over how to best define jazz. In his book, The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz (2002), Schoenberg wrote: "What makes Jazz music different from country, classical, rock, and other well-known genres is its basic malleability…. The great majority of it is not, as many believe, spun out of the air as if from some ephemeral, phantom spider, but is rather a highly organized and (unfortunately) spontaneous set of theme and variations." Rock (and roll) supplanted jazz as popular music in the 1950s, and by the time Schoenberg discovered it, many of jazz's greatest practitioners had fallen out of the spotlight and were often struggling to find gigs. Subsequently, the young aficionado was able to watch the greats perform up close and personal in humble venues as nearby as Hackensack, New Jersey, talking to them afterwards and occasionally invited to demonstrate his own skills for his idols, who were impressed that someone as young as Schoenberg was still interested in the genre. Indeed, the very word "jazz" itself had seldom graced their aged ears since Woodstock. It was in this way that Schoenberg received informal piano lessons from master jazz pianists Teddy Wilson, Paul Shaffer

Paul Shaffer

Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer who has been David Letterman's sidekick since 1982.-Early years:...

 and Hank Jones. In 1972, Teddy Wilson brought his young protégé to a jazz performance at the Waldorf Astoria where Schoenberg first met Benny Goodman.

That same year, Schoenberg began volunteering at the now-defunct Jazz Museum in New York City, meeting more jazz musicians and growing involved in the scene. It was while volunteering that Schoenberg, at the urging of cornetist Ruby Braff, met respected piano and music theory teacher Sanford Gold, who did a great deal to supplement Schoenberg's musical foundations with lessons on piano and musical theory. Also at the Jazz Museum, the fifteen year-old met Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman

Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing".In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America...

 again, while working on the Museum's Goodman exhibit. Later, two producers from the radio station WBAI were referred to Schoenberg as the local jazz expert, while researching an upcoming show on jazz music. They brought the youngster on the air for an interview. Schoenberg enjoyed the experience so much that he produced two more shows for the station, interviewing several well-known jazz musicians himself. At 15, he began to teach himself how to play the saxophone, inspired by jazz saxophonist Lester Young

Lester Young

Lester Willis Young , nicknamed "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. He also played trumpet, violin, and drums....

. In 1976, his piano lessons with Sanford Gold made it possible for Schoenberg to enter the prestigious Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan School of Music

The Manhattan School of Music is a major music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition...

 as a music theory major, with a minor in piano. While at school, Schoenberg got a job playing sax in Eddie Durham

Eddie Durham

Eddie Durham was an American jazz guitarist, trombonist, composer and musical arranger of the swing music medium born in San Marcos, Texas, probably best known for his work with musicians like Cab Calloway, Willie Bryant, Andy Kirk, Glenn Miller, Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie, among others...

's jazz quartet. "I'd been jamming, sitting in and waiting for an opportunity," Schoenberg said recently. "I was one of a very small group of young guys interested in these great old jazz players at the time…. They were happy to have somebody who knew all the old songs." Playing with Durham, one of the original members of the Count Basie

Count Basie

William "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Basie led his jazz orchestra almost continuously for nearly 50 years...

 band, gave Schoenberg opportunities to meet and work with jazz musicians such as Al Casey, Sammy Price

Sammy Price

Sammy Price was an American jazz, boogie-woogie and jump blues pianist and bandleader. He was born Samuel Blythe Price, in Honey Grove, Texas, United States. Price was most noteworthy for his work on Decca Records with his own band, known as the Texas Bluesicians, that included fellow musicians...

, Roy Eldridge

Roy Eldridge

Roy David Eldridge , nicknamed "Little Jazz" was an American jazz trumpet player. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, his virtuosic solos and his strong influence on Dizzy Gillespie mark him as one of the most exciting musicians of the swing era and a...

, Jabbo Smith

Jabbo Smith

Jabbo Smith, born as Cladys Smith was a United States jazz musician, known for his hot virtuoso playing on the trumpet....

, Eddie Barefield

Eddie Barefield

Eddie Barefield was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and arranger most noteworthy for his work with Bennie Moten, Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman, Coleman Hawkins, Sammy Price, Bernie Young, and Ben Webster...

, Jo Jones

Jo Jones

Jo Jones was an American jazz drummer.Known as Papa Jo Jones in his later years, he was sometimes confused with another influential jazz drummer, Philly Joe Jones...

, and Panama Francis. After two years at Manhattan School of Music, Schoenberg switched his major to saxophone. In 1979, he produced a Charlie Parker and Lester Young tribute at Carnegie Recital Hall, arranging the songs, gathering the musicians, and performing with them. The concert featured Howard McGhee

Howard McGhee

Howard McGhee was one of the very first bebop jazz trumpeters, together with Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro and Idrees Sulieman. He was known for lightning-fast fingers and very high notes...

, Joe Albany

Joe Albany

Joseph Albani, known as Joe Albany was an American jazz pianist. He was among the few white pianists to have played bebop with Charlie Parker....

, Buddy Anderson, Dicky Wells

Dicky Wells

William Wells, , more famous under the name of Dicky Wells , was an American jazz trombonist....

, Eddie Bert

Eddie Bert

Eddie Bert is an American bebop jazz trombonist.His first job as a musician came in 1940 when he joined the Sam Donahue Orchestra, and then joined up with Red Norvo in 1941, later performing also with the bands of Stan Kenton and with Benny Goodman's bebop orchestra.He also recorded extensively as...

, Herb Ellis

Herb Ellis

Mitchell Herbert "Herb" Ellis was an American jazz guitarist. Perhaps best known for his 1950s membership in the trio of pianist Oscar Peterson, Ellis was also a staple of west-coast studio recording sessions, and was described by critic Scott Yanow as "an excellent bop-based guitarist with a...

 and Mel Lewis

Mel Lewis

Mel Lewis was an American drummer, jazz musician and band leader. He was born Melvin Sokoloff in Buffalo, New York to Russian immigrant parents....

 among others. It garnered Schoenberg the first of many rhapsodic reviews in The New York Times.

In 1980, Schoenberg received an unexpected call from none other than Benny Goodman. The clarinetist intended to donate his collection of historical jazz arrangements to the New York Public Library for posterity. Schoenberg, known around the jazz world as a history buff and an expert on Goodman's music in particular, was the perfect choice to compile the archive and write the accompanying documents. Schoenberg left the Manhattan School of Music to work on the collection, which were to be divvied out to the library in yearly installments. Meanwhile, Schoenberg formed the Loren Schoenberg Big Band, a repertory group devoted to performing the more obscure classics of the '30s, '40s, and '50s, though it eventually performed new works as well. "It was difficult to keep the guys together because there was really no work," he told Stuart Troup in (New York) Newsday (May 26, 1989). "We would spend ten months rehearsing and have a one-night gig." Eventually, however, the skill of the performers and the quality of the arrangements began to make a difference. "We began to get enough gigs so that it was hard to find time to rehearse," he told Troup. The band won over jazz critics with its musicality and deft handling of the classics. "Mr. Schoenberg … knows exactly how to calibrate his orchestra," Peter Watrous wrote for The New York Times (July 14, 1994), after seeing the band perform at the Village Vanguard. "…The band crackled with energy and intelligence," Watrous added, "and never once raised its voice without reason." The band has also performed at many other major venues, including the Blue Note

Blue Note (jazz clubs)

The Blue Note is a jazz club and restaurant located at in Greenwich Village, New York City. Opened in 1981 by owner and founder Danny Bensusan, the club is now considered one of the world's most famous jazz venues...

, Michael's Pub, and Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

.

A few years after he began, Benny Goodman decided to stop donating his arrangements to the New York Public Library

New York Public Library

The New York Public Library is the largest public library in North America and is one of the United States' most significant research libraries...

. He hired Schoenberg on as his assistant, however, and later, as his personal and business manager. In 1982, Schoenberg got his own weekly radio show on WKCR, where he played old jazz recordings, interviewed musicians, produced documentary specials, and broadcast live performances. Schoenberg continued hosting jazz shows at WKCR until 1990. In 1984, Schoenberg became a co-host of Jazz from the Archives, a radio show on WBGO run by the Institute of Jazz Studies at 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...

, where he continues to occasionally participate as one of several hosts on the program. Also in 1984, the Loren Schoenberg Big Band released its first album, That's the Way It Goes. The band would go on to release Time Waits for No One (1987), Solid Ground (1988), Just A-Settin' and A-Rockin' (1989), Manhattan Work Song (1992), and Out of this World (1999). Schoenberg recorded S'posin' in 1990 with a quartet, and has recorded with other jazz musicians such as Benny Carter

Benny Carter

Bennett Lester Carter was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King...

, John Lewis

John Lewis (pianist)

John Aaron Lewis was an American jazz pianist and composer best known as the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet.- Early life:...

, and Jimmy Heath

Jimmy Heath

James Edward Heath , nicknamed Little Bird, is an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger. He is the brother of bassist Percy Heath and drummer Albert Heath.-Biography:...

. In 1985, Schoenberg's band formed an association with the New York Swing Dance Society, and began providing the accompaniment for the organization's dance events all over the city. Until that point, Goodman, Schoenberg's boss, had shown little interest in hearing the Loren Schoenberg Big Band. "It was frustrating…," Schoenberg told John McDonough in the Chicago Tribune (April 2, 1989). "He didn't think of me as a working musician." Despite frequent hinting by Schoenberg, Goodman had never asked to even see a rehearsal or listen to the band's first record. Then, to Schoenberg's surprise and delight, Goodman asked the band to perform with him on a 1985 PBS television special, Let's Dance Already, which turned out to be Goodman's last televised performance. In recalling the very first rehearsal with Goodman, Schoenberg told McDonough, "I guess that's why my knees shook when he walked through the door at RCA carrying his clarinet. Benny Goodman was going to play with my band. He could have had any band in the world he wanted, with any players. Money was no object. But this was the band he picked. I had to sit down."

Benny Goodman died in 1986; his will stipulated that all his remaining jazz arrangements and recordings be donated to Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 and his favorite back brace to Loren Schoenberg. Schoenberg was the obvious choice to appraise the Goodman Archives, and Yale later hired him to help curate the collection, and to compile a 9-CD set of never-before-released Goodman recordings. Also in 1986, Schoenberg joined the American Jazz Orchestra, where he remained until 1992, playing tenor sax and later following John Lewis as its musical director. He has also conducted the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. In 1988 and 1989, Schoenberg conducted the West German Radio Orchestra for a series of concerts, performing the works of George Gershwin

George Gershwin

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...

 and Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...

 for audiences in Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

. Also during that period, he led, with Mel Lewis

Mel Lewis

Mel Lewis was an American drummer, jazz musician and band leader. He was born Melvin Sokoloff in Buffalo, New York to Russian immigrant parents....

, a band for "third stream" jazz great Gunther Schuller

Gunther Schuller

Gunther Schuller is an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician.- Biography and works :...

 in Japan.

In 1993, Schoenberg was musical director for that year's International Duke Ellington Conference. Schoenberg has won 2 Grammys for his writing: in 1994, together with Dan Morgenstern

Dan Morgenstern

Dan Morgenstern is a jazz critic and librarian.Morgenstern moved to the United States in 1947, and attended Brandeis University from 1953-1956. He wrote for jazz publication Jazz Journal from 1958–1961, and following this edited several jazz magazines: Metronome in 1961, Jazz from 1962–1963, and...

, he won a Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for the accompanying materials to Louis Armstrong: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934, a boxed set of rare and essential recordings from the jazz great's early years, and in 2005, he captured his second Grammy for Best Liner Notes for The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Woody Herman And His Orchestra & Woodchoppers (1945–1947) for Mosaic Records.

Night club legend Bobby Short

Bobby Short

Robert Waltrip "Bobby" Short was an American cabaret singer and pianist, best known for his interpretations of songs by popular composers of the first half of the 20th century such as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Noel Coward and George and Ira Gershwin.He...

 hired Schoenberg as his musical director and saxophonist in 1997, a position he retained until Short’s passing in 2005. In September 1998, Schoenberg participated in a televised jazz music special filmed at the White House with President Clinton, along with Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...

, Marian McPartland

Marian McPartland

Margaret Marian McPartland, OBE is an English-born jazz pianist, composer, writer, and the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio, NPR.-Early life:...

, Dr. Billy Taylor

Billy Taylor

Billy Taylor was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and since 1994, he was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in...

, and Dr. David Baker. Schoenberg played his sax and spoke about the long history of the quintessentially American art form. In 2001, well-known documentary filmmaker Ken Burns

Ken Burns

Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs...

 brought Schoenberg on as an advisor for his ambitious Jazz documentary. Also that year, Schoenberg became a host on the SWING channel, on Sirius

Sirius

Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. With a visual apparent magnitude of −1.46, it is almost twice as bright as Canopus, the next brightest star. The name "Sirius" is derived from the Ancient Greek: Seirios . The star has the Bayer designation Alpha Canis Majoris...

 satellite radio.

Schoenberg has been a prolific writer on jazz. His articles have appeared in The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

, The Lester Young Reader, The Oxford Companion to Jazz, and Masters of the Jazz Saxophone. In the summer of 2002, Schoenberg's first book, The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz, was published by Perigee Books, with an introduction by Wynton Marsalis. Also in 2002, Schoenberg was appointed Executive Director of a proposed National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Though the museum has yet to find a permanent home, buzz has already been generated amongst jazz fans. "I'm already getting phone calls from people who find it on the Internet," Schoenberg told John Robert Brown in an interview found on the Museum's Web site. "'We'd like to bring our family up. What time does it open?' It's very clear that this is an idea who time had come. It's long overdue. America does not have a first class jazz museum in a major city." Leonard Garment

Leonard Garment

Leonard Garment was acting Special Counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon for the last two years of his presidency.Garment was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1949, Garment joined the law firm of Mudge, Stern, Baldwin, and Todd. He became the head of litigation and a partner in the late fifties...

, an adviser to President Nixon and the Museum’s first Chairman, managed to secure the project a million-dollar grant from Congress in 2000, but significantly money more will have to be raised. "Of course you can't build a jazz museum with a million dollars in New York City," Schoenberg admitted. The choice of Harlem for the jazz museum's home was an obvious one to the saxophonist. "The museum must be deeply rooted in the Harlem community," Schoenberg told Brown. "A museum like this will only succeed if there is a perception that it comes from the community and it receives support from the community leaders, and all the others in the locality, who have everything to gain from this. Harlem has been an incredible cradle for jazz. Importantly, it continues to be." In June 2003, Schoenberg and his National Jazz Museum in Harlem All-Stars band performed at the White House to raise awareness about the museum project. The band played with a special guest performer: Herb Jeffries, a 92-year-old baritone singer and an original member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra. After the performance, President Bush declared June Black Music Month

Black music month

Black Music Month takes place in June. President Jimmy Carter, who on June 7, 1979, decreed that June would be the month of black music. For the past 28 years, presidents have announced to Americans that we should celebrate Black Music Month. For each year of his term, President Barack Obama has...

. They have also created a strong relationship to the community through their Harlem Speaks interview series and educational programs based in local schools.

Recently, Nat Hentoff

Nat Hentoff

Nathan Irving "Nat" Hentoff is an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media and writes regularly on jazz and country music for The Wall Street Journal....

 wrote in JazzTimes

JazzTimes

JazzTimes is a magazine that dates back to Radio Free Jazz, a publication founded in 1970 by Ira Sabin when he was operating a record store in Washington, DC. It was originally a newsletter designed to update shoppers on the latest jazz releases and provide jazz radio programmers with a means of...

: “Loren Schoenberg is a first-class musician, arranger, leader, and a critic with a rare comprehensive perception in the tradition of the late Martin Williams.” The Encyclopedia of Popular Music says: "It is Schoenberg's chosen role as dedicated archivist, educator and energetic advocate for jazz that is his greatest contribution to the music that he loves." Today, Schoenberg's Big Band continues to appear occasionally, though merely as "a labor of love," according to Schoenberg. In addition to his duties as Executive Director of the Jazz Museum, Schoenberg is on the faculty of Juilliard's Institute for Jazz Studies, and Jazz at Lincoln Center

Jazz at Lincoln Center

Jazz at Lincoln Center is part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. JALC's performing arts complex, Frederick P. Rose Hall, is located at West 60th Street and Broadway in New York City, slightly south of the main Lincoln Center campus and directly adjacent to Columbus Circle. Frederick P....

's Jazz 101 series. He has taught at the New School

The New School

The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York academics, and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University...

, the Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan School of Music

The Manhattan School of Music is a major music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition...

, William Paterson University

William Paterson University

William Paterson University is a comprehensive public institution located in Wayne, New Jersey serving nearly 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students through five colleges: , , , , and ....

, SUNY/Purchase

State University of New York at Purchase

Purchase College, State University of New York, is a public four-year college located in Purchase, New York, United States. It is one of 13 comprehensive colleges in the State University of New York system...

, the Essentially Ellington Band Director's Academy in Snowmass, Colorado

Snowmass, Colorado

Snowmass is an unincorporated town and a U.S. Post Office located in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. It is situated in the valley of the Roaring Fork River, near the mouth of Snowmass Creek along State Highway 82 between Aspen and Basalt...

, The Juilliard Evening School, and Long Island University

Long Island University

Long Island University is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution of higher education in the U.S. state of New York.-History:...

. In addition, he has given lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...

 and the New York Philharmonic

New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic is a symphony orchestra based in New York City in the United States. It is one of the American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five"...

. Schoenberg is the Program Director of the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Jazz Colony summer program.