Summer 2026 Registration Is Open
Students in grades 7-12 are invited to join the next session of the New Jersey Jazz Academy! While no audition is required, students must have at least 2 years experience playing their instrument and should also have excellent sight reading skills.
Rehearsals take place in the first floor recital room at Elefante Music in New Providence.
Highlights: Spring 2026 Keane Concert
Stream past concerts
Meet the Instructors
Vinnie Turturiello is a Grammy-nominated music educator. His Scotch Plains-Fanwood jazz band, The Moonglowers, has taken top honors in the NJ Association for Jazz Education’s Division II competition in 2014, 2015, and 2016. He is an adjunct professor at Kean University and Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Al Elefante, founder of Elefante Music, studied at Kings College and the Manhattan School of Music. He studied clarinet with Charles Passhaus, Charles Russo, and Leon Russianoff.
He is a fixture of the local jazz community and performs regularly with his band Elefante & Green.
He opened Elefante Music in 1996 where he continues to teach private lessons in New Providence.