VISION
PJCE envisions a vibrant jazz community where composers, performers, students and audiences create, see and hear their cultural experiences artistically expressed and represented in original jazz compositions and performance.
MISSION
PJCE’s mission is to create and perform original jazz music that engages and supports our community’s diverse artists, cultures and place.
VALUES
Community: We value a supportive community experience that includes a diverse group of composers, performers, audience, and students.
Integrity: We carry out our work with the greatest responsibility, openness, and accountability.
Innovation: We honor jazz and its legacy as an inclusive and diverse art that constantly renews itself in each generation’s time and place.
Legacy: We recognize jazz as a quintessentially American cultural achievement and contribution to world culture, created from and within the African American experience in the United States.
Respect: We treat all people, communities, and cultures with dignity and respect.
Excellence: We strive for excellence in all our endeavors.
Creativity: We value imagination, innovation, and music that embraces local culture, community and history.
