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The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. Every year it features roughly 3,000 artists from 30-odd countries, more than 650 concerts (including 450 free outdoor performances), and welcomes over 2 million visitors (12.5% of whom are tourists) as well as 300 accredited journalists.
April 14 – First day of Coachella 2023, a two weekend event, occurs.Jazz musicians in attendance are The Comet is Coming and Domi and JD Beck [4]; April 15 – After 8 years, British band GoGo Penguin's contract with Blue Note Records ends, and the band switches to XXIM Records, a record label more typically associated with neoclassical music and progressive electronic music.
December 30 - The Guardian ranks Charles Lloyd's Trios: Sacred Thread as the best jazz album of 2022, followed by Mary Halvorson's Amaryllis/Belladonna (treated as one album) in #2 [20] December 30 - Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force's 2021 album Dear Love ends off the year at the #1 spot with most radio airplay of the year as documented by ...
Samara Joy appeared in 2022 and 2023 in club shows and is now headlining. Shiela E. returns for a free outdoor headline show. 2025: 9 Rickie Lee Jones Wynton Marsalis & the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Smokey Robinson Thundercat The Wood Brothers: TBA: TBA: TBD Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra previously headlined in 2007.
As the Drexel Jazz Syncopators, they remained popular into the 1920s. [7] The Royal Theatre was the most important jazz venue in Baltimore for much of the 20th century, and produced one of the city's musical leaders in Rivers Chambers, who led the Royal's band from 1930 to 1937.
The Stanstock Music Festival is a charitable event where multiple musical acts come together and play music to raise money for other nonprofit organizations, especially those that contribute toward pediatric cancer causes and veteran reintegration. The event is held near Baltimore, Maryland - most recently in Essex, and formerly in Parkville ...
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 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. [ citation needed ] The event is held to keep alive the memory of Clifford Brown who died in a traffic accident in 1956 along with pianist Richie Powell . [ 1 ]