Origins Jazz Series

Lexington, Kentucky

In 2017, I co-founded a jazz performance series in Lexington called Origins Jazz Series.

I built the organization from the ground up with three other partners. My role focuses on artistic direction, marketing, and financial and business planning.

What is Origins Jazz Series?

We’re a musician-led jazz performance series in Lexington, Kentucky that presents jazz that’s meant to be listened to. We feature some of the artform's top players in intimate settings. We also present Kentucky-area artists playing the music they want to perform - and what they want audiences to hear. It is a series that is designed to build on the current energy of jazz as a popular art form in Lexington and Central Kentucky, and address civic and community issues that touch the art form.

Our first three seasons brought in some of America’s top jazz artists, and featured the talents of jazz artists based in the Central Kentucky region rarely heard in a concert or club setting.

We rooted the series in Lexington’s jazz origins by highlighting and forming events the complex legacy of Narcotic Farm, the nation’s first drug-treatment prison. Located out Leestown Road, it treated jazz legends like Sonny Rollins, Elvin Jones, and Chet Baker. We have also hosted several events focused on the social and racial equity aspects of jazz.

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