The Jazz Project is a jazz service organization dedicated to increasing performance opportunities for jazz musicians, and advancing the appreciation and development of jazz in the Pacific Northwest.
     Funded by public and private grants and donations, The Project produces two concert series--a four-part Feature Series, and an eleven-part Art of Jazz series--and hosts many free performances including a Club Series, Seaside Concert Series, and concerts by the Bellingham Youth Jazz Band (BYJB). The Project admits all children to shows for free, provides tuition assistance and lesson subsidies, and assists uninsured and underinsured jazz musicians with emergency medical and rehabilitation expenses. 
     The Project was born in a once nearly invisible, but dedicated jazz culture in Bellingham, Washington. The Project preserves and invigorates that culture, guiding it into all walks of life by providing Whatcom County a window on the world of jazz--making sound judgments and forging lasting community connections between artists and patrons, government and corporate grantors, students and educators.  Music is a pervasive and indispensable element of social life, a medium through which individuals can, do, and will forever realize greatness in themselves and others.  While the Jazz Project keeps Bellingham tuned to what’s out there on the jazz front, it sees to it that one of those fronts is right here in Whatcom County, Washington.
 

Jazz Project Recordings
Click on artists name to see the recordings that are available.

John Carswell - Blues - Vocals, B-3 Organ, piano

Bill MacDonough - Piano - Quartet w/Trumpet

John Stowell & Christopher Woitach - Guitars

Dave Nugent - Saxophone - Trio and Quintet

Hadley Caliman & Gary Hammon - with B-3, guitar, drums