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The Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation is celebrating the excellence and opportunity inherent in Michigan’s college and university jazz programs. Where once jazz was viewed as an inappropriate area of study in Colleges and Universities, now jazz degree programs and ensembles are a central part of many music departments across the country. These programs are led...
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2025 Detroit Jazz Festival to feature Chucho Valdés and Paquito D’Rivera, Branford Marsalis, Kenny Barron, John Scofield and more! DETROIT – The Detroit Jazz Festival, the world’s largest (and best) free jazz festival, tonight announced this year’s exciting lineup during a livestreamed preview event at the Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center on the campus of...
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DESCRIPTION: The Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation and International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 38 have teamed up to celebrate the opportunity inherent in Michigan’s Theatre- and Music-tech college programs. Music- and Theater-tech programs encompass a curriculum of study, specific to non-performance majors. These skill sets in stagecraft, from carpenters to electricians, from board operators to...
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DETROIT – The Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation is thrilled to present pianist, composer, and artist Jason Moran as the Artist-in-Residence for the 2025 Detroit Jazz Festival. Moran has released 18 solo recordings with Blue Note Records and Yes Records. In 2022, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was recently...
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DETROIT – The Detroit Jazz Festival, the world’s largest free jazz festival, reached a global livestream audience of more than 2M unique viewers (see graph) during Labor Day weekend according to Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation President and Artistic Director Chris Collins. The data was confirmed by Calmetrics Inc., an analytics service provider based in New...
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We’re excited to announce the release of the exclusive J.C. Heard Limited Edition Art Print! This hand-numbered, embossed art print features original signatures from over twenty jazz legends and is limited to just 100 copies. Celebrate the legacy of one of jazz’s greatest drummers and support future generations of musicians—all proceeds benefit the J.C. Heard...
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The Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation is pleased to announce a call for poster design submissions for the 2024 Detroit Jazz Festival (August 30th – September 2nd). This call for artists offers professional artists at any stage in their career the opportunity to submit 1 to 2 original poster examples. Must live in the City of...
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The Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation celebrates the excellence and opportunity inherent in Michigan’s college and university jazz programs. Where once jazz was viewed as an inappropriate area of study in Colleges and Universities, now jazz degree programs and ensembles are a central part of many music departments nationwide. These programs are led by some of...
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2024 Lineup Announced DETROIT – The Detroit Jazz Festival, the world’s largest (and best) free jazz festival, tonight announced this year’s lineup during a free livestream preview event that included live performances from the 2024 Artist-In-Residence Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band, and the One-World Jazz Orchestra, a collaboration between the Berklee Global Jazz Institute...
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For many years, the Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation offered a special opportunity for jazz lovers to contribute to the Detroit Jazz Festival, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Donors were known as “Guardians” and those who joined were a proud group, eager to support this cherished musical event which provided VIP hospitality benefits and recognition. We are pleased...
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For over 40 years, the Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation has celebrated Detroit’s rich history of jazz music by providing year-round concerts and educational programming, and of course, organizing the world’s largest free Jazz festival, featuring world-class talent, over Labor Day weekend.
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