Welcome to the JazzWeek Summit 2011!

Who should attend the Summit?

Independent jazz artists; representatives of artists and recording labels involved in promotion, marketing, and artist relations;  radio hosts, managers, program and music directors; and journalists.

JazzWeek’s mission is to provide a knowledge base for promoting and programming jazz using new media, radio, print, the internet and other traditional and non-traditional avenues.

The JazzWeek Summit is a place to get artists, jazz radio, internet broadcasters, program producers, labels, management together. As with our past summits, we promise not to rehash the same old panel topics in a quick once-over-lightly session; there will be plenty of time to discuss and explore each topic.

The 2011 Summit will further focus on using social media to advance jazz.

Each year, participants have taken a lot of great information back with them, and put the summit’s ideas into action.

If you are planning on attending, be prepared to work. Have no fear, though, there will be plenty of activities and plenty of time to play.

This year the Summit returns once again to Rochester, N.Y., home of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, which will be celebrating its seventh anniversary. Both Downbeat and the New York Times have called the XRIJF one of the top four jazz festivals in the U.S. The Summit coincides with the final three days of this year’s festival, with theater, club, and free outdoor shows scheduled. Lineups for this year will be announced in early April.

The Radisson Hotel Rochester Riverside will again host this year’s JazzWeek Summit. We have a special early bird rate available now but only until August 7.

Take advantage of early-bird rates — save up to $90 — and register today!