Pathways To Jazz

20/09/2024

This was an especially exciting year because Pathways To Jazz has expanded into Italy with the help of our new partners Music for Love! A big thank you also goes out to our U.S. fiscal sponsor Boulder County Arts Alliance. Congratulations to our seven U.S. and six Italian 2024 GRANT WINNERS! We cannot wait to hear what you produce!

Since 2014, Pathways To Jazz has awarded talented musicians grants to create & record albums with th

30/04/2024

Happy International Jazz Day! In honor, I want to tell you two things. First, a reminder that the Pathways To Jazz Letter of Intent process opens at 8:00am MT tomorrow, May 1, on Boulder County Arts Alliance website. The process closes at 5:00pm MT same day.

Second, I work at University of Colorado Boulder as well as for Pathways To Jazz. In 1923, Alton Glen “Glenn” Miller attended CU Boulder for three semesters. There are approximately 1400 boxes of Glenn Miller archives at CU Boulder, that haven't been accessible. Now, thanks in large part to Deanna & Brewster Waddell, archivists will be cataloging, preserving a managing this major collection of big band and swing music. Check out the article to learn more.

CU Boulder’s vast and historically valuable Glenn Miller collection is set to take the spotlight, thanks to a philanthropy-funded archiving project. Miller attended CU Boulder before becoming one of the most successful big band musicians of the 20th century.

24/04/2024

Pathways To Jazz celebrates 10 years this year! I would say it is hard to believe, but looking at my large and wonderful collection of CDs & LPs from winners, I do believe it. You can find all our funded artists on the Pathways To Jazz website. The application process begins with the acceptance of Letters of Intent starting at 8am MT on May 1, ending at 5pm same day. Please review all details Boulder County Arts Alliance before deciding to submit. Check out the article!

Today, we’d like to introduce you to Sarah Goodroad and Alan Cogen. They shared their story with us below: Sarah Goodroad and Alan Cogen Pathways to Jazz originally began when Founder Alan Cogen decided he wanted to help jazz musicians in Colorado and he identified that helping artists to create p...

03/04/2024

The 2024 Pathways To Jazz grant cycle will open and close on May 1, 2024. If you are interested in applying, you may submit a letter of intent (LOI) between 8:00am-5:00pm MT on May 1 through the Boulder County Arts Alliance website. All of the questions that will be on the LOI form can be found on the grants page of pathwaystojazz.com

16/01/2024

Congratulations to Keith Waters & Scott Sawyer on their recent release of "night songs" funded in part through a Pathways To Jazz grant they received in 2022. Check out this nice article about the release.

When jazz musicians have played together for over 50 years, good things happen. Niwot's Keith Waters, a professor of music at the University of Colorado, got together with childhood friend Scott Sawyer to create a new jazz compact disc, titled "Night Songs." The 10-track CD is scheduled to be offici...

15/11/2023

Congratulations to Yuhan Su on her new release Liberated Gesture! Yuhan won the Pathways To Jazz grant in 2022: https://pathwaystojazz.com/Yuhan-Su.php

New Release: New York-based vibraphonist Yuhan Su, a Taiwanese native, has built a reputation as “among the most prominent contemporary voices” (Jazziz) on her instrument. Liberated Gesture, her second release for Sunnyside (and fourth album overall), follows up City Animals from 2018 with a new set of original compositions, a new band of heavyweights and a renewed outlook on art and possibility. Joined by altoist Caroline Davis, pianist Matt Mitchell, bassist Marty Kenney and drummer Dan Weiss, Su brings to life an ambitious set of music with the common theme of finding freedom. Available to purchase/stream today (11/10)! https://yuhansu.bandcamp.com/album/liberated-gesture

09/10/2023

Annie Booth is releasing her second Pathways To Jazz supported album, Flowers of Evil, on Oct 13. Congratulations Annie!

RELEASED WORLDWIDE Friday October 13, 2023Preorder the album --- https://annieboothmusic.bandcamp.com/Buy tickets for Denver album release show on Thurs Oct ...

21/08/2023

Congratulations to this year's winners! Huge thanks to Ethan Philion, Janine Santana TAVN, The Arts Validation Network, Stefano Cazzaniga and Sarah Goodroad . Thank you to Charlotte LaSasso and the Boulder County Arts Alliance for your ongoing support of our efforts. And thank you to our Founder, Alan Cogen - without you none of this would be possible.

02/06/2023

Pathways To Jazz cordially invites all our musicians in NY to come to the special screening of Alan's movie "Mixtape Trilogy: Stories of the Power of Music" at the Tribeca on July 13. All proceeds are benefiting Jazz Gallery. Let us know if you are coming! You can buy tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tribeca-screening-room-mixtape-trilogy-stories-of-the-power-of-music-tickets-642970701677?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=post_publish&utm_content=shortLinkNewEmail

25/04/2023

Less than a week away from the 2023 grant application process opening on May 1, 8:00am MT. All of the information to prepare and apply can be found here: https://bouldercountyarts.org/pathways-to-jazz-guidelines You can see all of the amazing artists who won the grant last year at pathwaystojazz.com

08/04/2023

Prepare to apply now Boulder County Arts Alliance https://bouldercountyarts.org/pathways-to-jazz-guidelines

Additional information available on the Pathways To Jazz website.

22/02/2023

It was so great to have the local jazz community come out to see our Founder, Alan Cogen's movie Mixtape Trilogy at eTown. For those of you who aren't local or couldn't make it, we are excited to tell you the movie is available for streaming on all the streaming platforms as well as on iN Demand, AT&T, Direct TV, Dish. Please enjoy this amazing film about what you know to be true: the POWER of Music. It also features jazz pianist Vijay Iyer. Consider giving it high marks on Rotten Tomatoes or iMDb. Would love to see your thoughts on FB too! https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mixtape_trilogy_stories_of_the_power_of_music
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt24127724/

Where is Mixtape Trilogy: Stories of the Power of Music streaming? Find out where to watch on Netflix, Prime, Hulu & 40+ others

22/01/2023

Sean McGowan's Pathways To Jazz CD Union Station made Steve Chavis KUVO Jazz Don't Miss 2022 list. Congratulations!

Sorted in no particular order, these 22 selections (plus honorable mentions) from the KUVO JAZZ library (thanks to Music Director Arturo Gómez!), in my opinion, simply deserve wider recognition. Some are self-produced, some are digital release only, and some major label printings got noticed by the...

12/01/2023

Congratulations Chase Elodia and Ethan Philion for their inclusion in DownBeat Magazine Best Albums of 2022 for Portrait Imperfect and Meditations on Mingus respectively.

17/11/2022

Pathways To Jazz Founder Alan Cogen will be live on air on KUVO Jazz at 9:30am MT with Leonard "Graffiti" Johnson to talk about his new movie Mixtape Trilogy: Stories of the Power of Music. The movie has its theater premier at eTown in Boulder on Saturday 11/19 at 7:00pm. Listen to the interview online or on 89.3 FM

eTown is proud to host the theatre premier of Mixtape Trilogy an entertaining and impactful documentary that explores one of the most intense and unique relationships between people who rarely meet: music artists and their fans.