All City Jazz Missoula

All City Jazz Missoula is a non-profit organization which was founded in 2017, as an Incubator Program of Arts Missoula, to provide an opportunity for local high school musicians to perfect their skills in an improvisation format separate from their existing high school band programs. The organization, which annually has 25-35 student musicians, is available to provide an educational experience to high school students throughout the Missoula community with performances at Missoula on Main (formerly First Night Missoula), Jazzoula, The UM Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival and other community events.

High School / Middle School and Band Directors recommend and encourage select students from their respective programs to be involved with this opportunity. The mission of the All City Jazz program is to provide other opportunities in a creative experience for instrumental students through jazz instruction. The methods employed to help enrich the students will be improvisation, creative literature, masterclasses, workshops and performances with nationally acclaimed musicians.  The musical and leadership skills gained can then be shared with their own school programs.  These groups will rehearse weekly and perform 2-3 times per academic year.

All-City Jazz is fiscally sponsored by Arts Missoula. All donations are made to Arts Missoula and held in account for All-City Jazz. Arts Missoula is a 501c3 in the State of Montana.