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Sponsors and Partners

JazzBoston is proud to recognize our Jazz Week 2008 sponsors and partners here and to thank them for caring about the music and its future. We would like to extend our special thanks to Jazz Week Primary Sponsor, the Regattabar together with the Charles Hotel and The Blue Note, and Lead Sponsor, Scullers Jazz Club and the DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel, for their early support of this community-wide celebration of the music once again this year.

Primary Sponsor

		The Regattabar and the Charles Hotel are proud to be a part of Jazz Week '08 in Boston. The award-winning Regattabar presents the best of jazz, blues, and world music, featuring musicians from all over the world and our own backyard.

Lead Sponsors

		Voted Boston's #1 Jazz Venue in the Boston Phoenix and Citysearch.com 2008 polls, Scullers Jazz Club is celebrating its 19th year presenting the biggest names in straightahead, Latin and Contemporary Jazz, as well as Blues, Soul, R & B, Cabaret and World Music. The legendary club has hosted some of the very best musical artists in the business, including Harry Connick Jr., Chris Botti, Jamie Cullam, David Sanborn, Michael Bublé, Arturo Sandoval, Tony Bennett, Wynton Marsalis and Dave Koz, to name a few.
		Marsalis Music, launched in 2002, is the creation of Branford Marsalis, one of the most celebrated jazz musicians of the past quarter century. Marsalis Music has focused primarily on jazz with a roster featuring promising new artists, leading contemporary stylists and, in the Honors Series inaugurated in 2006, underappreciated veteran musicians. For more information, please visit www.marsalismusic.com.
		A new spot in the South End for live music, dinner, drinks, and dancing, the Beehive opened in Spring 2007 in the Boston Center for the Arts complex.

Major Sponsors

		With a clear focus on meeting the needs of consumers today and tomorrow, John Hancock is a market leader in key insurance and investment product lines. John Hancock is the U.S. division of Manulife Financial Corporation, a highly esteemed global enterprise based in Toronto, Ontario. Manulife is the world's fifth largest, and North America's second largest, life insurer by market capitalization. Read more at www.johnhancock.com.
		Led by conductor Keith Lockhart, the Boston Pops draws an annual audience of over 1 million at Symphony Hall, the Charles River Esplanade, and other concert venues in New England and across the country. With a repertory of Broadway show tunes, film scores, jazz, rock and roll, and classical and patriotic favorites, it is the most recorded orchestra in the world.
		Live Nation New England promotes approximately 450 events per year in the New England area, including the summer concert seasons at the Bank of America Pavilion and Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts. Formerly known as Tea Party Concerts, Live Nation New England maintains a proud history of promoting the biggest acts in music throughout the region for over 40 years.
		Since 1994, Swing City has hosted Boston’s premier swing dance events featuring live Swing Jazz Music, dance instruction and plenty of room to move. Check us out at www.swingcityboston.com.

Media Sponsor

		Produced in Boston, shared with the world, WGBH 89.7 FM is an award-winning NPR affiliate station.

Event Partners

		Founded in 1945, Berklee College of Music is the world’s largest independent music college and the premier institution for the study of contemporary music.
		The New England Conservatory mission: the education and training of musicians of all ages from around the world, drawing on the talents of an accomplished faculty and nurturing individual excellence in a challenging and supportive community dedicated to the highest standards of performance, teaching, and scholarship.
		Founded in 1848 by an act of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts, the Boston Public Library was the first large free municipal library in the United States. In addition to its 6.1 million books, the library boasts over 1.2 million rare books and manuscripts and a wealth of maps, musical scores, and prints.
		Borders’ more than 1,300 stores around the world include more than 10 in the Greater Boston area, with the newest located in Boston’s Back Bay at 511 Boylston Street.