24th Annual San Jose Jazz Summer Fest: Fri - Sun, August 9 - 11, 2013!

Get ready, San Jose CA! Check out the line-up coming your way during the weekend of 9-11 August 2013!

"If you live within 50 miles of San Jose, you probably know about the South Bay's biggest annual cultural event: San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. About 100,000 people attended [in 2011], the weather was tank-top perfect, and the musical arc of the weekend was increasingly impressive." -San Jose Mercury News

"San Jose Jazz deserves a good deal of credit for spotting some of the region's most exciting artists long before they're headliners." -Andy Gilbert, San Jose Mercury News

The 24th Annual San Jose Jazz Summer Fest will feature some of today's most distinguished national acts, hottest jazz and Latin artists, and the Bay Area's top local talent. This year's line-up includes acclaimed artists such as Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Pink Martini, Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Charlie Hunter & Scott Amendola Duo, Rebirth Brass Band, Javon Jackson with Les McCann, Grace Kelly, Le Jazz Hot, The Cookers, Latin Jazz Jam with the John Santos Sextet, Wil Campa, Dafnis Prieto Proverb Trio, Ben Vereen, Stacey Kent, Yosvany Terry Quartet, Derrick Hodge, Mingo Fishtrap, Tony Furtado, Murali Coryell, Mark de Clive-Lowe presents Church, The Clifford Brown/Max Roach Legacy Project, Sasha Dobson Duo, Tammy Hall Quintet, Frank Bey Band, Laila Smith, California Honeydrops, Futuro Picante, Orquesta Saboricua, Josh Jones Ensemble, Louie Romero's Mazacote, Ricardo Lemvo y Makina Loca, Pa'l Bailador, Edgardo & Candela, Carlos Caro-Vission Latina, Legally Blue, LaVay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, The Fountain Blues Allstars, Zydeco Flames, Miles Bonny + B.Lewis, Transcendental Ensemble, Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88's, Motordude Zydeco, Pelejo Seco, Los Gatos-Saratoga Big Band, Ron Gariffo Orchestra, Millenium Sounds Orchestra, NASA Ames Jazz Band, Full Spectrum, Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco, Footnotes Big Band, South Bay Big Band Jazz, Lyratones, Sons of Jubal, Audiotrópico, Raq Filipina, Aaron Lington Quintet, Paula Harris, San Jose Jazz High School All Stars, Young Jazz Allstars, The Kompressors, Monterey Jazz Festival High School All-Star Band, Monterey Jazz Festival High School Honor Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Folsom High School Jazz Choir, Monte Vista High School Jazz Combo, Archbishop Mitty High School Big Band, Archbishop Mitty High School Jazz Choir, and San Jose Jazz High School All Stars. 

"Over 1,000 artists and 100,000 music lovers converge on San Jose for a weekend of jazz, funk, fusion, blues, salsa, Latin, R&B, electronica and many other forms of contemporary music." -KQED

"...the festival continues to up the ante with the roster of about 80 performers that encompasses everything from 
marquee names to unique up and comers, and both national and local acts...." 
-Silicon Valley Community Newspapers

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