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"50 Essential Summer Festivals”
“Silicon Valley’s jazz offerings grow sharper every year, as illustrated by this 12-stage demonstration throughout downtown San Jose. (The grandest of them, the Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph, gives even the most casual of jams a stately air.) ...the festival folds in avant-garde and traditional strains of jazz, as well as salsa, R&B, blues and other complementary genres... This city’s tech base ensures plenty of interesting musical innovations to discover on the sidelines.”
“One of the world’s great urban jazz festivals”
—DownBeat Magazine
“San Jose Jazz Summer Fest [fills] the Northern California city’s downtown area with world class music…” —GRAMMY.com
“The San Jose Jazz Summer Fest has become one of the nation’s most important live music events” —JAZZIZ
“Rare is the festival, like San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, that just gets bigger and better each year. Spread out over central San Jose, the festival offers the sublime opportunity to [lay] on a blanket in Plaza de César Chávez. Does summertime get much better?”
—KQED
“San Jose Jazz’s programming spans beyond jazz, with a diverse range of genres including R&B, Latin, salsa and global music.” —SF Chronicle
“Transforming Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park in downtown San Jose into a musical haven” (San Francisco Chronicle) San Jose Jazz Summer Fest turns the heart of downtown San Jose into an immersive cultural mecca every August. With nine indoor and outdoor venues featuring more than 80 artists representing the best in jazz, R&B, Latin jazz, salsa, soul, funk, bossa nova, and blues, SJZ Summer Fest proudly presents the most stylistically diverse music event on the West Coast.