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about

Riverview Jazz began as a grassroots concert at the Riverview Farmers Market in the Jersey City Heights in 2013. In just a few short years Riverview Jazz was producing or partnering in over 100 free-to-the-public performances a year in Hudson County, including the Jersey City Jazz Festival, the largest outdoor jazz festival in the NYC-tri state area. Riverview Jazz programming focuses mainly on straight-ahead jazz, Latin jazz, and those sounds left-of-center. No mainstream pop acts at our jazz festivals, dig?

The goal is simple - great music to the people in a fun environment. A party where everyone is welcome and the music is happening. As Ornette says "Friends and Neighbors, that's where it's at!" 

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Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra featuring Catherine Russell on the RWJBa

team

Bryan Beninghove, founder of the Jersey City Jazz Festival performs with Winard Harper and

Bryan Beninghove

Executive Director & Founder

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Margo Parks

Business & Festival Manager

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Martin Schmid

Operations Manager/

Event Coordinator

kathy Cacicedo Creative Director Jersey City Jazz Festival

Kathy Cacicedo

Creative Director

Stephen Gritzen Digital Marketing Jersey City Jazz Festival

Stephen Gritzan

Digital Marketing Manager

Karen Polisky

Karen Poliski

Festival Production Coordinator

Dave Zimmerman

Dave Zimmerman

Festival Office Manager

team

board

President

Kevin Gosa

Co-founder & Principal, Nonprofit Velocity

Vice President

Dane Calcagni

Director of Development, RSI

Secretary

Rachel Ryll

Quality & Regulatory Director, Americas; CEO, The Statuary

Treasurer

Samantha Green

Samantha Green CPA

Trustees

Bryan Beninghove

Director /Founder Riverview Jazz/Musician

Tim Karcher

Partner at Proskauer Rose LLP

Margo Parks

Parks Arts

Barry Richards

B. Rich Consulting

Kate Silver

Executive VP/Managing Broker at

Corcoran Sawyer Smith

Kern Weissman

CIO at Select Express & Logistics

Advisory Board

Seth Abramson

Rabbit Moon Productions

Doug Beavers

Musician, Founder Circle 9 Records

Dr. Linda Beninghove

Library Director, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ted Chubb

Musician; VP Jazz Education & Partnerships, Jaxx House Kids: Artistic Director, The Statuary

Melina Garcia

Founder UCMP

Mario "B" Gonzalez

Founder Salsa Fever on2, actor;

Rutgers University Professor

Cary Chevat

Sponsor Resources

James Kaznosky

Director of Environmental Health & Safety, Baruch College

Walter Parks

Musician, Event Producer

Sawyer Smith

Owner/Founder Corcoran Sawyer Smith

Jersey City NJ Waterfront
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