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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 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc., as it is officially named, was established in 1970 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (NPO). The Foundation is the original organizer of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell Oil Company, a corporate financial sponsor. The Foundation was established primarily ...
The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, and she and husband Louis Lorillard financed it for many years.
The Monterey Jazz Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Monterey, California, United States. It debuted on October 3, 1958, championed by Dave Brubeck [2] and co-founded by jazz and popular music critic Ralph J. Gleason [3] and jazz disc jockey Jimmy Lyons. [2]
Jazz is a 2001 television documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001 [2] and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. [3] Its chronological and thematic episodes provided a history of jazz, emphasizing innovative composers and musicians and American history.
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.
The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival is a free jazz music festival held annually in June at Rodney Square in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. The first festival was held in 1989 on the open lawn in the center of the city, and has grown into the largest free jazz festival on the East Coast.
Syracuse Jazz Fest and was ranked as "One of the top five free jazz festivals in America". (Fest Press: A Guide To US Music Festivals) Referred to by Down Beat and Jazz Times Magazines as "The Northeast's Largest Free Jazz Festival". History. Aretha Franklin headlined the 2015 festival, which also featured Lake Street Dive, Wynton Marsalis ...