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Berklee College of Music, the Boston Public Library, and the Boston Jazz Society will continue their community collaboration, Jazz on Wheels, to interest and involve young people and their families in jazz. This neighborhood performance series, where children and their families listen to, learn about, and play jazz, will start with its first free fall concert at the Codman Square Library, 690 Washington St., Dorchester, on Saturday, October 15. The three-part concert program will also take place on a Saturday in Upham’s Corner branch, November 19, and in the South End branch, on December 3. All programs begin at noon.

Through the program, a rotating group of volunteer Berklee faculty members will perform concerts at Boston Public Library branches. Children from the audience will be invited to join the band for the closing tune, and performers will give a history of jazz throughout the concert. Berklee faculty performers for the first concert will be Robert Christopherson, piano; Rich Appleman, bass; John Baboian, guitar; Bob Patton, sax; John Hazilla, drums; and Berklee alumn and vocalist Abria Smith rapping.

Children in elementary and middle schools are encouraged to attend with their families. Two weeks prior to each event, a photographic exhibit, courtesy of the Boston Jazz Society, will be on display at the respective libraries. The exhibit will feature jazz luminaries and historical jazz clubs in the Boston area.

Founded in 1973, the Boston Jazz Society is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization dedicated to jazz appreciation. Through its sponsorship of scholarships, lectures, seminars, concerts, and tributes, it promotes jazz education and assists in performances and fund-raisers for other social, cultural, and education groups.

For more than 150 years, the Boston Public Library has pioneered public library service in America with revolutionary ideas and famous firsts. Established in 1848, the BPL was the first publicly supported municipal library in America, the first public library to lend books, the first to have a branch library and the first to have a children's room.

Today, the BPL boasts 27 neighborhood branches, free Internet access, two unique restaurants, an award-winning website www.bpl.org and an on-line store featuring reproductions of the BPL's priceless photographs and artwork. Each year, the BPL hosts nearly 5000 programs, answers more than one million reference questions and serves millions of people in its National Historic Landmark McKim Building in Copley Square. All of its programs and exhibits are free and open to the public. At the Boston Public Library, books are just the beginning!

Berklee College of Music was founded on the revolutionary principle that the best way to prepare students for careers in music was through the study and practice of contemporary music. For over half a century, the college has evolved constantly to reflect the state of the art of music and the music business. With over a dozen performance and non-performance majors, a diverse and talented student body representing 70-plus countries, and a music industry "who's who" of alumni, Berklee is the world's premier learning lab for the music of today — and tomorrow.

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Prepared by the Boston Public Library's Communications Office. For more information about news, programs and events at the BPL, call 617-859-2212 or send a message to the Communications Office.