We hope you enjoy JPI Through the Years, a short film by Phil Bertelsen and Jazz Power Initiative. JPI Through the Years, highlights 20 years of transforming lives through jazz arts education and performance. Produced by Phil Bertelsen, who is an Emmy and Peabody award-winner as well as this year's recipient of the newly established JPI Changemaker Award, this video first screened last week at Jazz Power Celebration20 at TD Bank Conference Center. We are excited to share it now with you!
Community Artists-In-Residence
Antoinette Montague, 2023
Annette A. Aguilar, 2023
Steven Oquendo, 2024
Supporters and Partners:
Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation
The Miranda Family Fund
Hispanic Federation
Rondi Charleston and Steven Ruchevsky
Robert Rosenkranz and Alexandra Munroe
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance
Former City Council Member and current
Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez
Current City Council Member Carmen De La Rosa
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Coalition of Theatres of Color
New York State Council on the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
TD Bank
TD Charitable Foundation
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Pinkerton Foundation
Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation
Howard Gilman Foundation
Common Sense Fund
Cheswatyr Foundation
New York State Senator Robert Jackson
Medical Center Neighborhood Fund
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
New Music USA
West Harlem Development Corporation
Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center
National Jazz Museum in Harlem
United Palace
Harlem School of the Arts
Lehman College CUNY
Jazzmobile Inc.
JazzCorner
Founding Board Members: Eli Yamin (current),
Clifford Carlson, Dena Engelhardt
Board Presidents - Eli Yamin, Shireen Dickson,
Ron Claiborne, Wendy Rothman (current)
Board Vice Presidents - Rondi Charleston,
Joe Fortunato, Tanya LaMelle (current)
Board Treasurer - Becca Pulliam (current)
Board Directors - Phil Bertelsen,
Kristy Nguyen, Kirk Imamura,
Jim Anderson, Roberto Benitez,
Marni Fetcher, LaFrae Sci,
John Hollwitz, Debra Vanderburg Spencer,
Tom Dempsey, Bob Stewart.
Current Board Directors: Jeffrey Jones “The Jedi Master,”
Evelin Collado, Mike Potenza, Kathy Gordon.
Hundreds of individual supporters like you!
“JPI Through the Years” was produced by Jazz Power Initiative with…
Phil Bertelsen - director
Max Douglas - editor
Alexandra Mandell - archive assistant
Eli Yamin - producer
Janny Gonzalez Velasquez - executive producer
Arlene Rodriguez - program manager
Antoinette Montague - senior voice teacher
Kena Onyejekwe - theatre director
Thank you to all the artists, educators, and students who have contributed to Jazz Power Initiative over the past 20 years. We look forward to hearing from you!