About John Moultrie

John Moultrie is a veteran music entrepreneur who is one of the great visionaries and social music trailblazers in Chicago. Moultrie is on a mission to reinvigorate one of America’s oldest forms of music.

As President/CEO of iRock Jazz Music Group, on air personality of iRock Jazz Radio Show and founder of the iRock Jazz Brand. Moultrie has spawned a new creative culture of live music productions, also while playing and promoting music of many of today’s “New” jazz pioneers on radio.

Moultrie, a former Chef Restaurateur and Music Entrepreneur, has also received numerous awards including the Small Business Association’s “Young Entrepreneur of the Year 1993,” Inc. magazine’s “Entrepreneur of the Year 1993,” Dollar & Sense magazine’s “International Jazz Club of the Year 1994,” Chicago Tribune’s “Top African American Chef,” Chicago Magazine’s “Best Restaurants for Desserts 1999” and Chicago Tribune’s “Top 10 Best Undiscovered Restaurants 1999

As the music industry evolves, iRock Jazz is devoted to creating new endeavors in marketing Jazz and to advance the "live social" music experience. iRock Jazz pays homage to jazz immortals living and dead who help shape a value system that inspires not only a new genre of artists who play and write, but also promotes their music to ensure that true creativity will be properly documented. iRock Jazz exclusive photography and video interviews includes some of the most culturally significant and forward thinking artists in the world. Visit www.irockjazz.com

John Moultrie joined the JazzTimes community on Oct 24, 2011