Butch Berman established the Berman Music Foundation in the spring of 1995 in order to protect and promote unique forms of jazz music during Butch's lifetime and into the future. The foundation is located in Lincoln, Nebraska. The foundation realizes the difficulties involved in maintaining a career as an artist and will assist those individuals who yearn to create according to their own hearts and not simply to become a commercial success.The foundation, touched by the spirit of all the musicians who seek to present and preserve jazz music, will strive diligently to illuminate the pathway to a long-lasting, deep appreciation of jazz music, in all its forms and hues.
