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A highlights list of what’s worth your consideration at the three-day Monterey Jazz Festival.
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A highlights list of what’s worth your consideration at the three-day Monterey Jazz Festival.

  • Pam Marino
  • Sep 25, 2025

Here’s our suggestions for which artists to catch up with over the three days…

Jazz Festival abandons traditional dates to avoid conflict with IndyCar.
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Jazz Festival abandons traditional dates to avoid conflict with IndyCar.

  • Dave Faries
  • Feb 20, 2019

For the first time since 1960, the Monterey Jazz Festival will not take place on the third weekend in September.

New book captures photographer Jim Marshall's perspective.
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New book captures photographer Jim Marshall's perspective.

  • Paul Wilner
  • Jan 5, 2017

Jim Marshall captured jazz and culture in photos, and a new book captures his art and perspective.

Two pianists of different generations play their take on standards at this year’s Monterey Jazz Fest.
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Two pianists of different generations play their take on standards at this year’s Monterey Jazz Fest.

  • Paul Fried
  • Sep 15, 2016

Jazz was America’s most popular music beginning in the Roaring ’20s, and like the universe itself, hasn’t stopped expanding. It is acoustic, e…

Terri Lyne Carrington
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Terri Lyne Carrington

  • Walter Ryce
  • Sep 15, 2016

The pioneering jazz drummer/composer brings a boatload of chops to the Monterey Jazz Festival.

The Blues Festival in the Forest doubles up for year two.
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The Blues Festival in the Forest doubles up for year two.

  • Paul Fried
  • Jun 16, 2016

If spending a Sunday afternoon with an adult beverage in one hand and gourmet foodstuffs in the other while listening to top-shelf blues playe…

The Next Generation Jazz Festival is like the March Madness of jazz.
Arts & Culture

The Next Generation Jazz Festival is like the March Madness of jazz.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Apr 7, 2016

They’re coming in all at once: 1,300 high schoolers, middle schoolers and collegiates, the best jazz students from across the country, descend…

Robert Cray returns to Monterey with evolved brand of the blues.
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Robert Cray returns to Monterey with evolved brand of the blues.

  • Adam Joseph
  • Mar 31, 2016

Robert Cray credits 1960s AM radio as one of the dominant sources that shaped who he is as a musician. He absorbed it all – the gospel of the …

Artifacts: The future of jazz, a capitol art show.
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Artifacts: The future of jazz, a capitol art show.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Mar 24, 2016

I returned last Saturday from a family work/vacation trip to Washington, D.C. where I saw, among many venues and events (including President O…

Monterey Jazz Festival full lineup revealed.
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Monterey Jazz Festival full lineup revealed.

  • Adam Joseph
  • Updated Apr 2, 2015

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