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This annual festival celebrates the indigenous music and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana, so the music encompasses every style associated with the city and the state: contemporary and traditional jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, Cajun music, zydeco, Afro-Caribbean, folk music, Latin, rock, rap music, country music, and bluegrass.
History. The festival is held annually on the 20-acre (8 ha), oak-studded Monterey County Fairgrounds, located at 2004 Fairground Road in Monterey, on the third full weekend in September, beginning on Friday. Five hundred top jazz artists perform on nine stages spread throughout the grounds, with 50 concert performances.
The Chicago Jazz Festival is an admission-free, four-day annual jazz festival in Chicago 's Millennium Park. It is run by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and programmed with the assistance of Jazz Institute of Chicago during Labor Day weekend, integrating international and local artists playing many forms of jazz music.
1970–2019, 2022–. Founded by. George Wein. Website. nojazzfest .com. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (commonly called Jazz Fest or Jazzfest) is an annual celebration of local music and culture held at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jazz Fest attracts thousands of visitors to New Orleans each year. [1]
DC Jazz Festival. Denton Arts and Jazz Festival. Detroit International Jazz Festival. Disney Jazz Celebration. DjangoFest.
1950s in jazz. By the end of the 1940s, the nervous energy and tension of bebop was replaced with a tendency towards calm and smoothness, with the sounds of cool jazz, which favoured long, linear melodic lines. It emerged in New York City, as a result of the mixture of the styles of predominantly white swing jazz musicians and predominantly ...
Musikfest, an eleven-day outdoor music festival held annually each August in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is the largest free music festival in the United States, drawing over 1.3 million attendees. This is a list of music festivals in the United States organized by state and then by name. It includes current and past notable festivals.
20 – Peter Gordon, American composer and musician. 30 – Stanley Clarke, American bassist, Return to Forever. July. 7 – Sue Evans, American American percussionist and drummer. 16 – Bobby Previte, American drummer, composer, and bandleader. 21 – Pino Minafra, Italian trumpeter and flugelhornist.