The fastest growing online jazz competition and festival. Competition entrants upload video performances in different categories. Registrants vote for their favorite performances. Multi Grammy Award winners Lenny White, Joe Lovano and Randy Brecker join in the judges panel of the 2nd annual Made In New York Jazz Competition. The competition discovers amazing jazz artists talents around the globe. The Made in New York Jazz Competition is excited to once again announce a partnership with Kawai America. To the victors go the spoils, and those spoils will come in the form of prizes from a world-class musical instrument manufacturer. In addition to covering the airfare required for the winner to travel to New York City to perform in the competition’s closing gala celebration, Kawai will also be presenting the 1st Prize winner with a state of the art MP 11 stage piano, the finest piano experience in a professional stage piano. In addition to prizes supplied by Kawai USA, a cash prize will be granted by the competition to the grand-prize winner. The price is $3,000 and it’s constantly growing because 10% of the registration fees go toward the prize. The more participants madeinnyjazz.com has the bigger the prize! The contest, which features young musicians from 43 countries, gets more than 1.5 million video loads and more than 20 thousand registered users, increasing daily. MAY 2014 Jazz musicians from 9 Countries took the stage in front of a full house of about 1,000 people at the Jazz Gala in New York.The concert capped off the Made in New York Jazz Competition, and featured the winners, first runner-up and other participants of the contest.