The Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz has grown to be the largest FREE jazz event in New England, attracting a record 55,000 + fans last July. During the past several years, the attendance has averaged over 45,000!
The tradition continues in 2010 in Bushnell Park, America's oldest public park, when the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz presents its 19th annual event featuring three nights and two days of hot and cool jazz on the Performance Pavilion and the Friends of the Festival Arch Stage, featuring great artists from around the world and the USA. Connecticut's State Capitol Building and Hartford's skyline provide a beautiful, dramatic backdrop as the sun sets and the stars rise in the night sky and on stage.
Notable performers at the Festival have included The McCoy Tyner Big Band; Arturo Sandoval; Dave Brubeck; Marion Meadows; The Dizzy Gillespie All Stars, John Scofield, Chuck Mangione, the Ramsey Lewis Trio; Nicholas Payton; Gerald Albright; Herbie Mann; Phil Woods, Bobby Caldwell; Joe Sample; Billy Taylor, Sonny Fortune; Joey DeFrancesco; Ahmad Jamal, Eric Darius; Kim Waters; the Woody Herman Big Band; Gerald Albright and Kevin Mahogany.
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