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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.
Since 2023, locations of performances included the TD Main Stage, [3] St. Matthew's United Church, and The Carleton. [4] [5] While paid passes and tickets to individual shows are available, the festival always includes a host of free programming during the day. [5] The festival includes the Halifax Jazz Festivals Music Education Program. [6]
In June 2021, Sony Pictures Classics acquired the distribution rights for the film. [4] Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story premiered at the South by Southwest film festival on March 13, 2022, [5] and released in limited theatres in New York City and Los Angeles on May 13, before expanding to additional markets on May 27. [6]
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 Hampton Jazz Festival is a major musical event started in 1968, and features many of the world's major jazz artists. It is held during the last full weekend in June each year, with the primary venue being Hampton, Virginia's Hampton Coliseum. Festival organizers describe it as "the best available jazz, R&B and blues artists that are on tour ...
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 ]
A five-day Jazz Workshop provides an opportunity for elementary and high school music students to learn from and play alongside noted musicians performing at the festival. The festival supports the RIJF Eastman School of Music Jazz Scholarship, which has awarded more than $500,000 in scholarships since 2002 to 43 students to attend the Eastman ...