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The Jazz on the Ave Music Festival (commonly referred to as Jazz on the Ave) is an annual jazz music festival held on Cecil B. Moore Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.It was founded by Beech Companies in 2006 and is organized by Beech Community Services. [1]
Philadelphia's mid-20th century jazz heritage includes an important role in the development of bebop, a style most closely associated with New York. In the 1940s, Philadelphia jazz was based out of clubs along Columbia Avenue in North Philadelphia and clubs like the Clef Club, the Showboat, and Pep's in South Philadelphia. [34]
Name Year Location Notes Image Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival: 1969–present Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. Beaulieu Jazz Festival: 1956–61 Beaulieu, Hampshire, UK
The Peco Energy Jazz Festival is a music festival devoted to jazz held every February in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. History. The first edition, held in 1989, was called the Philadelphia Jazz Weekend, and the name was changed the following year to the Presidential Jazz Weekend. It changed its name to the current one in 1995 having previously ...
www.ensembleartsphilly.org. The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is a large performing arts venue at 300 South Broad Street and the corner of Spruce Street, along the stretch known as the Avenue of the Arts in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is owned and operated by The Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble Arts, which also ...
The first Cavalcade of Jazz was held on September 23, 1945, and starred Count Basie, The Honey Drippers, Valaida Snow, Joe Turner, The Peters Sisters, Slim and Bam and other artists. [1] Attendance was some 15,000. [2] Subsequent festivals were widely promoted across the city, with Hefflin's aim being to "cement" race relations.
Jazz: A History of the New York Scene is a book by Len Kunstadt (founder, with blues great Victoria Spivey, of the Spivey Records label) and Sam Charters documenting the 20th-century jazz scene in New York City. [1] [2] [3]
Carnival of Swing. The Carnival of Swing was a music festival that took place on 29 May 1938 on Randall's Island, New York. It is considered the first outdoor jazz festival. [1] Performing at the concert were twenty-five swing bands, including the Duke Ellington and Count Basie orchestras, and Stuff Smith. Though newsreel footage of the event ...