Organizations Filed Purposes:
The Monterey Jazz Festival celebrates the legacy of jazz, expands its boundaries, and provides opportunities to experience jazz through the creative production of performances and educational programs.
Monterey Jazz Festival - The nonprofit Monterey Jazz Festival is the longest continuously-running jazz festival in the world, and has presented nearly every major jazz artist every year since its inception in 1958. Held annually on the 20-acre Monterey County Fairgrounds, the Festival is considered an international icon and model for all subsequent multi-stage music festivals. Five-hundred top jazz artists perform throughout the weekend on eight stages over three nights and two days each third full weekend in September. Every year, through its marketing and promotional efforts. the Festival gathers over 60 million impressions in local, national, and international print and digital media outlets, on the ground, and through its web site.
Schools in Monterey County, and thousands of students, regional, national, and international benefit from the Festivals in-school teaching program and jazz education programs. The Traveling Clinicians tours for both local and national high school students across the country and abroad. Top-flight jazz educators and student musicians participate in the 44-year-old Next Generation Jazz Festival and Summer Jazz Camp. Top student bands are invited to perform at the Monterey Jazz Festival in September, as does the Festivals national high school honor band, the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra. The educational efforts of the Festival reach approximately 60,000 people annually through its education programs. Nearly 250,000 plays are heard by online users annually through the Festivals Digital Music Education Project on Sound Cloud, a Web-based jazz education initiative.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
Tim Jackson | Artistic Dir. | 30 | $175,230 |
Tony Caparelli | Finance Dir. | 40 | $97,108 |
Colleen Bailey | Executive Dir. | 40 | $94,427 |
Mimi Hahn | Director | 2 | $0 |
Kevin Cartwright | Director | 1 | $0 |
Laura Zehm | Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
Scott Scheid | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
Peter Orr | Director | 1 | $0 |
Terrence O'Connor | Director | 1 | $0 |
Letty Ledbetter | Director | 1 | $0 |
Peter Gordon | Vice President | 2 | $0 |
Howard Fisher | Director | 2 | $0 |
Ken Gordon | Director | 1 | $0 |
Clint Eastwood | Director | 1 | $0 |
Carsbia Anderson Jr | President | 4 | $0 |
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