The Sacramento Jazz cooperative plays on average a couple times a month at the Dante Club, but with Assembly Bill 5 in the law books, they aren’t sure how much longer they’ll be able to play there.
“We need some kind of consideration, otherwise we are going to lose a true American art form. And there was not a lot of what we did around town,” said Carolyne Swayze, the founder of the cooperative.
When Swayze moved to Sacramento years ago, she brought her love of classical jazz with her. Eventually, she founded the Sacramento Jazz Cooperative.
The cooperative is a non-profit that brings in popular jazz acts with the money raised through membership and ticket sales. Their annual budget is $85,000, an amount Swayze says barely gets the organization by.
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