Jazz Associates (Player corporation)

Corporate Background

Jazz Associates was founded on 8 September 2003. The official Jazz motto is "Honesty, Integrity and enjoying life in Eve"

The name Jazz is actually formed from the choice picking of the initials of the 3 original founders; Calmity Jayne, Aves and Zinndahr.

Current CEO of Jazz is Aves.

Corporate Overview

Jazz can often be referred to a corporation made by the gathering of old friends. Corp mates are collectively referred to as "Jazzies".

Jazz practices and open door policy and it is often said that if you were once a Jazzie, you'll always one.

Jazz still retains many of its older members and a significant majority of its members have been with Jazz for more than 4 years.

Jazz activities are mainly industrial in nature but it does field a small but well equipped and experienced PVP force.

Jazz Command Structure includes a CEO, 2 Vice-CEOs and a number of Directors/Shareholders to manage timezone differences.

Jazz also has some interesting Member Titles. These include:

- Baby on Board

- Master of Miscommunication and Bad Relations

- 100 Million Bounty

- Mr Hanky

- Strange Timezone Manager

Jazz will probably issue strange medals some day.

Corporate History

The 3 founders first met while they were in a corporation known as "Brilliant Corporation" which was based on low sec a few month in early 2003. However, an unscrupulous member led to a massive war declaration against the corp which led to its quick demise a few months later.

Although the 3 friend were saden and angry at the demise of their first home, they formed Jazz Associates as a new home and issued a call to all their friends to come and join them.

Jazz has been part of a number of alliances dating back from the 1st Fountain Alliance, NORAD, RISE and most recently Cosmic Anomalies.

Politics

Jazz practices a no-piracy policy. This means Jazzies are not allowed to participate in piracy type operations. New members who join Jazz from former pirate organizations are required to stop all pirate related activities while flying under Jazz.

Jazz is currently officially non-aligned to any of the major political powerblocks such as GBC, Goonswarm, etc.

Ingame Channel

Do drop by our ingame channel "Jazz" and say Hi!

Now

Jazz has returned to it empire/low-sec roots and has currently completed a recent recruitment drive.

Recent History

End Game. Corporation War Declaration - 2009.01.05 to 2009.01.13

End Game. Corporate [END G] declared war on Jazz Associates on 5th January 2009. Thinking that Jazz was mainly an industrial corporation which could not muster an effective fighting defense, [END G] declared war.

Aves briefed Jazz with the following message:

"End Game. is a 9 member corp who seem to wardec corporations that they think are easy pickings. They currently have 2 other wars besides Jazz and operate mainly in the Dodixie area. One of their members was tracked down to Slays, another surfaced in Stacmon.

They mostly fly Dominix and Megathron class battleships, but they are able to fly other types of ships, like a Scorpion. We'll be keeping a gang up as much as possible, and harass them instead. Hopefully we can kill a few of their ships and get this over with pretty fast."

Jazz Intel soon identified that [END G] members and Jazz went on the offensive on the 6th January when war officially started.

The first day saw 2 separate engagements in which Jazz held the field and successfully destroyed 3 hostile battleships and 1 frigate at the loss of its bait battleship.

Over the rest of the week, Jazz periodically station camped [END G] and launched numerous attacks against them when they undocked. Unfortunately, most of the time they were able to de-aggro and dock back into the station before they were destroyed.

12th January saw the loss of another Jazz battleship piloted by one of its newer members who was trying to link up with the rest of Jazz after being inspired by early victory reports. His solo Raven class battleship went down after a vicious attack by a [END G] Heavy Assault Cruiser.

The final day of the war saw Jazz again camping the Dodixie station and trying to bait the [END G] hostiles docked in station. Attempting to set a trap, all members of the Jazz gang jumped 1 system away while leaving a lone Megathron class battleship on station. [END G] took the bait, undocked a number of ships and engaged the battleship and the rest of the Jazz fleet warped back onto station and pounded another [END G] ship to scraps. Jazz then proceeded to probe down the hapless pod and destroyed it.

This marked the final engagement between Jazz and [END G]. All Jazzies who participated and scored a kill against ENG will be awarded a campaign medal for their efforts.

War Stats can be viewed here: End Game Corp