New Brunswick Jazz Project

New Brunswick Jazz Project (NBJP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to presenting world-class jazz performances in downtown New Brunswick and other Central Jersey venues. Since its inception in 2010, NBJP has gone from presenting two jazz performances a month to offering free shows twice a week, all year long.

NBJP has successfully fostered a supportive environment for regular live jazz performances in New Brunswick and has presented more than 2000 events featuring over 1500 acclaimed national and international jazz leaders, sidemen, and special guests.

In 2023, after a 9 year tenure with the Central Jersey Jazz Festival, the New Brunswick Jazz Project collaborated with producing organizations in four other Middlesex County towns: Carteret, Edison, Metuchen & Woodbridge, each with a distinct reputation for presenting live jazz, to form the Middlesex County Jazz Festival. In late September free performances take place in each town and draws thousands of jazz lovers to the region.

NBJP also regularly partners with the New Brunswick Public Schools and the Hub Teen Center to provide after-school enrichment programming in the form of jazz performances with student participation and talkbacks.