CRESCENDO JAZZ is an interdenominational, international Christian fellowship of jazz musicians – exchanging issues of life and music and growing together in faith, rooted in local communities and churches – in close connection to professional musicians of other genres.
Who we are and what we do
Crescendo JAZZ is a initiative of Crescendo International, a non-denominational Christian organization serving within the world of professional music and the arts.
Established in 1985, Crescendo is a diverse network of thousands of professional musicians and artists sharing commonality in faith and art.
We work as a international Crescendo JAZZ core team from Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, France and the US.
Our dream is to network, encourage and serve jazz musicians all over the world. You may find more information about our network and our worldwide projects here.
What drives us
We want to network jazz musicians who have similar interests. Our approach
* Network via the CML (“Christian Musicians Link”) as a worldwide online network. https://www.crescendointernational.org/en/network.html
* We create opportunities to meet in local events for musicians connected to music conservatories with Jam sessions and exchange about profession and faith.
* We create online events and nurture an active online community via JAZZ Lounges and JAZZunity meetings.
* Annually several conferences and conventions, like PERSONANZ.ORG
We are supporting the dialogue of educational institutions in the fields of jazz and theology and working musicians and the churches.
We serve musicians diaconally, in a personal and caring way. We support community and the exchange of ideas.
Our heart is to communicate faith in many different ways and making Christian accents in our society, such as
* Interdenominational services CREATIVE CHURCH & IN SPIRIT with artists specially for people who have become distanced from the church in more and more cities,
* Publications, Lectures and Workshops in Conservatories and Colleges of Music,
* Festivals (e.g. Night of Faith Basel).
We want to serve churches, Christian ministries and organisations, by
* Initiating Jazz concerts within a liturgical framework and theological reflections,
* Offering Soloists and Ensembles for engagements in church services with jazz elements.
Past and present Projects
Providing Jazz Arrangements of Hymns for services and concerts with the REAL FAITHBOOK OF GREAT HYMNS.
Tune INs are bi-weekly spiritual reflections for artists created by theologians and artists themselves.
Tune INs are meant to help us to focus our minds and hearts on spiritual matters.
Meeting and input platform for Jazz musicians to get inspired and connect. These are regular meetings with compelling topics and guest speakers.
Our Crescendo JAZZ Online Community. We meet, discuss and explore hallmarks in jazz such as: improvisation, syncopation; and jazz freedom related to our Christian journey. This new series of meetings starts in 2024 as a new community within Crescendo’s network. Welcome!
Upcoming events
November 2024
Online Community JAZZunity
Get connected
We would love to hear more from you. Let’s stay in contact! We are constantly working on building a jazz community around the globe. Stay tuned about the future development of this movement.
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