new jazz music in orlando - jazz on edge - where creative musicians play their own music

Jazz On Edge is dedicated to presenting the amazing range of music we know as jazz to an appreciative Orlando and online audience, and giving creative local and nationally-known musicians a place to perform their own music, without boundaries.

Ellington. Gillespie. Brubeck. Miles. Ella.

Jazz was once the popular music of America. Now it's what you hear while waiting for appetizers or riding the elevator. We've heard "there's no place to play your own tunes" too many times. So now there's Jazz On Edge, allowing jazz musicians a chance to do what they do best - create.

"Jazz is there & gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple." — Keith Jarrett

New ways of presenting music and spoken word, new venues and amazing performers from Orlando and around the world are in the future for Jazz On Edge. Stay with us!

"Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise" — George Gershwin

The Jazz On Edge artist lineup (so far)

David W. Berner Dru Betts Ian Cook Jason Cook Claire Courchene Adam Cruz Per Danielsson Tamara Danielsson Chris Davis Amy Denio Richard Drexler Lee Frisari Freddie Green Brian Groder Derrick Harvin Joseph Reed Hayes Sharon Hoffmann Belinda Hulin Kyle Jones Greg Jungbluth John Krasula Jessica Lurie Joe Martin Doug Mathews Marty Morell Sue Orfield Willie Rast Tina Richerson Mike Scialabba Edward Simon Kevin Stever

Jazz On Edge is produced by Orlando writer Joseph Hayes and Burry Man Productions. Not a professional promoter, he created Jazz On Edge as a way to give great live jazz and original compositions a home in Orlando. An award-winning playwright, Joseph has performed with Brian Groder at the Jazz Gallery, NYC; Digital Media Arts Center, Orlando; and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach; with Cornelius Eady at the Atlantic Center; and with David Amram at Stardust, and Chapters, Orlando.
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Welcome to Jazz On Edge

celebrating live jazz in Orlando