University Club in the Michigan Union. Many members of the Chicago-based Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians were featured including Roscoe Mitchell and Famoudou Don Moye as well as free funk drummer/composer Ronald Shannon Jackson and reed men Oliver Lake and Julius Hemphill. Grant funding Eclipse Jazz received four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to underwrite its programming. They helped pave the way for the expansion of activities and venues including lectures and films, sound engineering classes, a free coffeehouse series called "Java and Jazz", jam sessions and free outdoor summer concerts during the award-winning Ann Arbor Art Fairs. The Art Fair concerts were broadcast live on Eclipse’s principal media partner, WCBN-FM 88.3 Ann Arbor. 40th anniversary commemoration On April 18, 2016, the 40th anniversary of Eclipse Jazz was marked by the Ann Arbor District Library with "Eclipse Jazz: 40 Years On", a 90-minute panel discussion which brought together and featured 16 past members of the Eclipse organization from New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit, Cleveland, Ann Arbor and Venice, Florida. References External links Eclipse Jazz: 40 Years On (audio) Jazz organizations University of Michigan Music of Ann Arbor, Michigan