The Indianapolis
Jazz Foundation

The Indianapolis Jazz Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and education of jazz in Indianapolis.

The Indianapolis Jazz Foundation is comprised of people who are musicians, club owners, and media supporters, and most importantly, fans.

Our main purposes are to be an educational resource, to expose listeners to jazz and educate them to the different varieties of jazz, to provide a link to resources promoting the local jazz industry, and to support local jazz artists and jazz venues.

The Indianapolis Jazz Foundation presents clinics in area schools, provides jazz workshops in the community, and provides  jazz scholarships to deserving young musicians who may otherwise not have access to a jazz education.  We also promote jazz as an art form and celebrate Indianapolis' jazz heritage through our IJF Hall of Fame and our Oral Histories project.

We are also a source of information for jazz fans and musicians, a place to exchange information of upcoming concerts, seminars and events. We hope that this will attract new listeners and fans from outside of Indianapolis as well. The Indianapolis Jazz Foundation has a jazz telephone hotline which is updated regularly—-this includes artists, venues, radio and television stations that play jazz.

We would like for you to consider joining the Indianapolis Jazz Foundation. Your membership will include a subscription to our newsletter and regular e-mail updates on local jazz events. Please join today, and tell a friend that you are a proud member of the Indianapolis Jazz Foundation. Together we can further develop the undeniably rich jazz heritage in Indianapolis. •