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The festival again changed names in 2005, becoming the Detroit International Jazz Festival after Ford Motor Company removed its sponsorship. In January 2006 Gretchen Valade, Chairman of Mack Avenue Records founded the Detroit International Jazz Festival Foundation, which took over production and management of the festival. [ 1 ]
Promoter AEG Presents is offering its own $25 tickets, on sale Tuesday through May 15, ... The Detroit Jazz Festival will take over downtown with a four-day lineup led by drummer great Brian Blade ...
One of the Motor City’s biggest annual cultural events, the Detroit Jazz Festival, is back for another four-day, Labor Day weekend celebration downtown. 2024 Detroit Jazz Festival: What to know ...
The Detroit Jazz Festival is back for another long Labor Day weekend of free first-class entertainment. It's expected to draw hundreds of thousands downtown across its four-day schedule.
Mack Avenue was founded in 1999 by Gretchen Carhartt Valade, a jazz fan and chair of the American apparel company Carhartt. The company is a sponsor of the Detroit Jazz Festival, to which Gretchen Valade donated $15 million in 2006. [1] Early Mack recording artists included Terry Gibbs, Oscar Castro-Neves, and George Shearing.
Larry Applebaum of JazzTimes stated, "A remarkably adventurous performance, it’s finally being released as a double-LP vinyl set with a fascinating bonus track." [9] Thom Jurek of AllMusic wrote, "Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival is a compelling exercise in kinetic, deeply emotional music making (mostly) in the moment .
The Detroit Jazz Festival will be held in downtown Detroit, Aug. 30-Sept. 2. Here’s a list of this year’s lineup, with more local artists to be announced later: 2024 Artist-In-Residence Brian ...
Detroit has a new mecca for jazz lovers, and it’s opening just in time to take advantage of this weekend’s Detroit Jazz Festival. The Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center, a state-of-the-art ...