Jazz Interactions

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Jazz Interactions, Inc. is a nonprofit organization in the New York metropolitan area that aims to raise awareness of jazz through information and educational services. It was founded in the early 1960s by jazz musician Joe Newman and fan Ernest M. Searle, Jr. The group created the Jazz Interactions Orchestra and the Jazz-Line, a telephone information service about jazz performances in the area, and it promoted the Jazzmobile, a traveling stage that brought free jazz concerts to neighborhoods in New York City and Long Island. Jazz Interactions also served as the original administrator of the Jazz Oral History Project before handing it to the Smithsonian Institution, which later transferred it to the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University.