Pittsburgh Jazz Museum
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Idea Overview
Create an institution whose mission is to preserve documents and support Pgh's role in the rich legacy of jazz in America. Through performance, education, exhibition and research the museum will stimulate the active tradition of jazz as a living part of community and culture.
Idea Round Up Concept Sheet
Who worked on idea?
Jennifer Baron, Tanya Ferell, Greg Langel, Karen Dejulio, Bob Nev
What is the idea?
To create an institution whose mission is to preserve documents and support Pgh's role in the rich legacy of jazz in America. Through performance, education, exhibition and research the museum will stimulate the active tradition of jazz as a living part of community and culture.
How would idea work?
- The building would be situated somewhere in the traditionally "hot" areas of Pgh jazz history (The Hill, East End)
- There would be exhibits, didactic text, images, audio and video recordings
- A functioning recreation of a Pgh jazz club and restaurant
- A recording studio
- Oral history program called Jazz Story focusing on grassroots memories of Pgh jazz scene
- Ultimately produce documentaries
Pluses:
National collaborations with Carnegie Museums, Teenie Harris archives, MCG, Hill District CDC and Granada Theatre, Pgh 250, Pgh Musicians Union, Duquesne, Pitt, DUQ, Kelly Strayhorn Theatre, Afro American Music Institute, Jazz Workshop, August Wilson Center, Carnegie Library, and Pgh's rich pantheon of local living-legend jazz musicians.
Concerns:
Areas of jurisdiction among all of the above, or degrees of participation and control
Community opportunities:
- Historians
- Jazz musicians
- Black and white people to unite in common heritage
- Community sites of famous jazz occurrences
- Walking maps with recording stops
