San Jose Jazz

Founded in 1986, San Jose Jazz is a public benefit corporation dedicated to promoting jazz through performance and education to enrich the lives of the people in our community. San Jose Jazz serves the Silicon Valley area, one of the most richly diverse and rapidly growing regions in the US. San Jose Jazz, renowned for producing one of the finest jazz festivals in the US, also produces a variety of other jazz concert series as well as numerous jazz concerts and events at its popup venue SJZ Break Room at 310 S. First Street, at San Carlos, working to increase the vitality of Downtown San Jose's SoFA Arts District. San Jose Jazz is also an innovative educational organization whose commitment to education and the community is at the very core of the organization’s mission.