The purpose of this organization is to promote and develop community awareness for, and support of, that form of music commonly known as jazz music in all of its forms and styles and to provide opportunities for education about and exposure to jazz in the Charlotte area and surrounding communities.

(As stated in Article I of the by-laws of the Charlotte Jazz Society)

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It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line.
~ Duke Ellington