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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.
The Exit Zero Jazz Festival is an biannual jazz festival held each spring and each fall in Cape May, New Jersey.Each installment typically runs for three days. [1] Headliners perform on one of the two main stages, often at the Cape May Convention Hall, and additional performances take place in the bars and restaurants in Cape May. [2]
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]
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 TD Halifax Jazz Festival, formerly known as the Atlantic Jazz Festival, is the oldest jazz festival and largest summer festival in Atlantic Canada, being held annually since 1987. Designated a Hallmark Event by the Halifax Regional Municipality , the event spans two weekends (9 nights, 8 days), attracts up to 55,000 visitors, involves 450 ...
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 ...
Gary Bartz at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, California, July 7, 2017. Bartz was first exposed to jazz as the son of the owners of a jazz nightclub in Baltimore. In 1958 he left Baltimore to study at the Juilliard School. [1] In the early 1960s, he performed with Eric Dolphy and McCoy Tyner in Charles Mingus' Jazz Workshop.