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OUR MISSION

Our vision is to gather, heal, restore, and revitalize the community through the pursuit of excellence in jazz mentorship, learning and performance.  To that end, our mission is to serve the community by offering affordable access to public jazz performance opportunities through the classes and performance workshops offered at the school.  In memory of Stewart Kong's mentor, Arnie Lawrence, full tuition scholarships will be awarded to many students throughout the middle schools and high schools in Queens.  Moreover, the availability of adult performance workshops and early childhood jazz learning classes makes this school a crown jewel of jazz learning as well as a new jazz hub for the Queens community.

Meet the Artistic Director

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Stewart Kong

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Stewart Kong was born in Queens and has been an accomplished and award winning jazz saxophonist for the past 30 years, bringing priceless and rare knowledge to the art of jazz learning and performance!

Mentored by the great jazz saxophonist Arnie Lawrence, Stewart played saxophone in a big band with Grammy winning vocalist Diane Schuur and worked with jazz greats like Jon Hendricks, Max Roach, Jimmy Heath, Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison, Ellis Marsalis, and Wynton Marsalis.

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