to receive announcements of future programs and other news about the local jazz scene.
Join MMC today!
|
Please include MMC in your charitable giving!
 |
Dear Friend of Jazz,
Greetings from the Madison Music Collective!
We hope that you were able to come to one of our concerts this past year. Our goal is to expand the appreciation of America's only original art form—Jazz.
We are asking for your help to so we can continue to bring these impactful productions to Madison.
Please help us by making a secure online gift at the link below
OR
by sending a check made out to:
Madison Music Collective
PO Box 2096
Madison WI 53701-2096
Support Madison Music Collective Now >>
The Madison Music Collective has for many years been a force in the Madison Jazz scene producing many free and low-cost concerts. We accomplished much in the past year with support from people like you!
Here is some of what we did in 2025:
- Sponsored Marbin at the Bur Oak in May
- Sponsored with Arts + Literature Lab and others in the Madison Jazz Fest in June
- Presenting sponsor for the Oscar Peterson memorial concert as part of Jazz Fest
- Partnered with Madison Jazz Society to present three Parks Alive performances in August
- Presenting sponsor for Chris Rottmayer's "Playing Favorites" album release
- And the return of our reformatted DIG Jazz series, in a partnership with the Rigby Pub from October to December
In the coming year we plan to continue sponsoring Jazz events and continue our own DIG Jazz
series. Please help us continue to expand the appreciation of Jazz by supporting the Madison Music Collective!
As a donor you will receive advance notice of all of our upcoming shows.
Thanks so much for your help!
For Jazz,
The Madison Music Collective
Support Madison Music Collective Now >>
|
In Memoriam of MMC Founder Joan Wildman
 Beloved pianist-keyboardist, composer, multi-dimensional artist and UW Emeritus Professor of Music Joan Wildman passed away at her Madison home on 4/8/20, at age 82. Joan taught at UW-Madison from 1978-2002 and influenced and mentored generations of improvising musicians, including several members of our community’s current corps of jazz artists. Through her teaching and performances, Joan helped students and audiences appreciate avant-garde jazz, packing clubs and concert halls in the Madison area until last year.
In his heartfelt tribute two days after she passed, former Isthmus editor Dean Robbins called Joan “Madison’s avatar of the avant-garde” while noting that her music was firmly “rooted in swing rhythms and the blues.” In another rich remembrance, Tone Madison blogger Scott Gordon described Joan as a “restless musical explorer,” and charted the pathways she pursued in developing her music, e.g., her melding of jazz with electronics like the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer into which she programmed new sounds almost every time she played live with it.
Joan was also a leader in our local jazz community, notably founding the Madison Music Collective in 1985 as a self-help organization dedicated to expanding performance opportunities in respectful settings for local jazz musicians. Through the years, many of them with Joan serving on its board, the Collective has produced jazz festivals, educational programs, and performances by touring artists and local musicians, including the ongoing DIG JAZZ original music series. In tribute to its founder, the Collective chose Joan to give the headline performance at their 30th anniversary celebration in 2015.
Joan will be greatly missed by the Madison Music Collective and the entire larger music community of Madison and beyond. |
|
