Nettwork Trio: Charnett Moffett, Stanley Jordan, and Jeff “Tain” Watts Lil’ John Roberts and His All Star Jam Band (Late Night Jazz Jam) Jessie Davis and the Nebraska Jones Experiment Russell Gunn & African Drums meets Kebbi Williams’ Wolf PackĪrturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestraįour Women: A Tribute to Nina Simone Featuring Kathleen Bertrand, Julie Dexter, Rhonda Thomas and Terry Harper Mausiki Scales and the Common Ground Collective featuring Giwayen Mata Late Night Jazz Jam Tribute to Miles Davis, featuring Lil’ John Roberts, Russell Gunn, and Mino Cinelu Kathleen Bertrand and Friends, featuring Chandra Currelley, Robin Latimore, Rhonda Thomas, Laura Coyle, Toni Redd and Myrna Clayton
Julie Dexter & Jacob Deaton Duo featuring Rasheeda Ali Joe Jennings & Howard Nicholson’s Life Force
#Capitol city jazz festival free
The city’s commitment to present a free jazz festival, as it was originally named “The Atlanta Free Jazz Festival,” is representative of a commitment to ensure that everyone who resides in and visits Atlanta will have easy access to high quality cultural experiences. Since then, Atlanta Jazz Festival has hosted luminaries of the jazz music tradition including, Lionel Hampton (1980), Dizzy Gillespie (1988/1990), Wynton Marsalis (1989), Nina Simone (2000), Ray Charles (2002), Miles Davis (1983), Herbie Hancock (2000) and many, many more. Mayor Maynard Jackson founded the original jazz festival with the idea to spotlight jazz in the city, because, as he said, “Jazz music is America’s only original art form, and…Atlanta, with its growing reputation as an international center of the arts and education, has both the opportunity and the responsibility to promote an art form whose roots are indigenous to the South.” Board of DirectorsĮstablished in 1978, the Atlanta Jazz Festival has become a tradition that draws music lovers from all around the region to experience the latest and greatest in jazz music culture.
Atlanta Jazz Festival is funded through the support of corporate sponsorships as well as Atlanta Jazz Festival, Inc., a non-profit entity dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Atlanta Jazz Festival. The mission of the Atlanta Jazz Festival is to expose and entertain a diverse audience of Jazz aficionados, young Jazz enthusiasts and aspiring musicians to the rich heritage and variety of Jazz as an authentic form of American music.Ītlanta Jazz Festival is produced by the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs (It is FREE and open to the public. An annual celebration of the music, culture and art of jazz begins in April and culminates each Memorial Day weekend, with an outdoor festival featuring jazz artists from all over the world. Atlanta Jazz Festival is regarded as one of the largest FREE jazz festivals in the country.
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