Joe Brazil is a Seattle Jazz Music Legend and unsung Icon. The Joe Brazil Legacy organization, created to retain, preserve, and honor his achievements, through leadership, music, the business of music instruction, and community activism. Joe Brazil Legacy's mission is to raise awareness of the achievements, historical significance, recognition and pay homage to Joe Brazil for his community activism and public service to the City of Seattle, and the Black Community. Joe Brazil is historically the first Black Jazz Music Instructor at the University of Washington, 1968. And he taught music at Garfield High as well. Many of Seattle's local talent has been influenced by Joe Brazil either directly, or indirectly, but He always gets credit. Brazil also organized a music school, The Black Academy of Music, BAM. Housed and fiscally sponsored at historic Central Area Motivational Program, (CAMP).
