America's Jazz Heritage Home Page

America's Jazz Heritage is a ten-year initiative to research, preserve, and present the history of jazz through exhibitions, performances, recordings, radio, publications, and educational programs at the Smithsonian and across the nation.

From Lost Jazz Shrines. Click for photo credit.

America’s Jazz Heritage is a Partnership of the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution. The program was established in 1992 by a major grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund. Headquartered at the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), America’s Jazz Heritage coordinates the activities of Smithsonian experts from offices across the Institution including the National Museum of American History, The Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian Productions, as well as SITES and several other divisions.