The MISSION of Musicians for Music is to stimulate, encourage, nurture & promote educational, cultural & fine arts activities in Louisiana, especially those that involve the creation of new works by new & emerging artists.

Our GOAL is to educate the public about the wealth of creative musicians in our state. We involve artists in all aspects of production. We are run by musicians & composers. We operate from the artist’s perspective. We focus on programs that promote career development for individual artists & bring their work to a wider audience.

The FOCUS OF OUR PROGRAMMING is to present & document original works of creative artists in Louisiana, especially those with original music, especially Latin Jazz.

In our last season, we presented 109 Community performances by Hispanic artists at Louisiana Arts Markets, Festivals, Parks, Museums, Schools, Libraries and Hospitals. Since 2005, we have been producing the Ecos Latinos documentary video series. We have 36 videos on our YouTube channel and 88 live performance videos on our Facebook page. Musicians for Music began presenting weekly Therapeutic Music performances at New Orleans Ochsner Hospital in 2011. In 2017, we expanded this weekly program to Southeast Veterans Medical Center. We have produced projects, such as: LOUISIANA JAZZ COMPOSERS Recording Series, LOUISIANA JAZZ COMPOSERS Television Series & INTERNATIONAL TOURING Network for Louisiana artists, as well as being Fiscal Agent for Individual Louisiana artists. The ECOS LATINOS TELEVISION SERIES was broadcast 4 times per week to 240,000 homes from 1993 till 8/29/05, when Hurricane Katrina destroyed our master tapes

MUSICIANS FOR MUSIC was founded in 1977 by a group of New Orleans composers, to sponsor performances of new works, especially those that involve Jazz and Latin Jazz. Our organization has a 48-year history of presenting music in LA, including production of the ECOS LATINOS Series since 1993. 

The Ecos Latinos Series is planned to serve a CULTURAL NEED: to present positive aspects of Latino Arts and Culture, in a family setting. Louisiana's under-served Hispanic population is largely ignored by the media and often presented in negative stereotypes.