Since its inaugural show in 2000, the week-long music festival JGH Jazz has been enjoyed by hospital patients, visitors, volunteers, staff members, as well as music-loving passersby. The annual event was founded by the JGH Musical Therapist Bryan Highbloom who has also been the impresario of almost every show. From R&B to folk music, musicians, singers, dancers, and sometimes members of the JGH staff, all took the opportunity to perform and shared with the audience their talents and passion.
In 2016, the JGH Archives received a donation of some digital copies of the event posters from Bryan upon his retirement from the position after 35 years of service. This year, because of COVID-19, the event wasn’t able to take place. As a reminder of this great endeavor and a piece of fond memory, the Archives has mounted up a collection of posters, JGH press clippings, as well as a link to the JGH YouTube channel to resonate the theme of the JGH Jazz festival -- “Music is healing”♫
Special thanks to Public Affairs & Communications for contributing additional event posters to enrich the collection.
Music in the JGH Publications
- 360_HighbloomB_20160923_En.pdfBryan Highbloom, JGH Music Therapist
- Pulse_201502_En_P7_9.pdf"An impromptu octet accompanied by Bryan Highbloom..." on page 7; "A JGH staff member who cares beyond..." on page 9
- JGHnews_2014Fall_En_P8.pdfAnd for their next number...
- Pulse_201401_En_P9.pdfVoices unite in chorus of support: Healing concert in solidarity with Filipino staff and people
- JGHNews_2013Fall_En_P35.pdfHot sounds, cool event
- Pulse_201309_En_P7.pdfJGH Jazz celebrates 14 years of music’s healing power
- JGHNews_2012Fall_En_P6.pdfHitting the high notes
- Pulse_201209_En_P10.pdfMusical healing celebrated at JGH Jazz Festival
- JGHNews_2011Fall_En_P36.pdfNotes by the dozen
- Pulse_201109_En_P8.pdfA year of “Transition” for JGH JAZZ Festival celebrates the art of musical healing
- JGHnews_2010Fall_En_P29.pdfThat's entertainment! JGH Jazz hits the high notes
- Pulse_2010Fall_En_P16.pdfJGH Jazz Voices of hope: Celebrating women on stage and at the patient’s bedside
- Pulse_2009Fall_En_P20.pdfJGH Jazz marks double anniversary
- JGHNews_2009Fall_En_P36.pdfJGH Jazz marks double anniversary
- JGHNews_2008Fall_En_P12.pdfHot fun in the summertime: High notes
- JGHNews_2007Fall_En_P19.pdfJGH gets the summertime blues, and jazz and…
- JGHNews_2006Fall_En_P17.pdfJGH Jazz Festival back for an encore
- Pulse_200608_En_P3.pdfJGH Jazz Festival returns for an encore
- JGHNews_2005Fall_En_P6c.pdfThe sound of music: 10:17 a.m. music therapy / hemodialysis
- Pulse_2005Summer_En_P14.pdfJGH Jazz: Cool music for hot days
- JGHNews_2004Fall_En_P17.pdfMusic is healing-- and appealing
- Pulse_200406_En_P8.pdfAll That Jazz
- Pulse_200309_En_P5.pdfBringing the Jazz Fest to Patients and Staff
- Pulse_200209_En_P5.pdfJGH Jazz Fest