Slideshow: The Detroit International Jazz Festival

2012-03-16 21:48:13

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By Larry Roberts  / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh has a great jazz history, with many historic figures getting their start here and with many wonderful performers appearing in local clubs today. However, what seems to have dropped off the charts is a local jazz festival. So, in order to be part of such a scene you have to travel. There's the JVC festival in New York, Newport in Rhode Island, Tri-C in Cleveland, or the nation's largest free jazz festival -- The Detroit International Jazz Festival celebrated its 29th anniversary this year with nearly 750,000 jazz fans attending over the Labor Day weekend. Billed as "A Love Supreme: The Philly-Detroit Summit" the festival featured musicians with connections to those cities.


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