Monterey Jazz Festival
The 55th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival will take place September 21-23, 2012 at the Monterey Fairgrounds in Monterey, California.
Held every third full weekend in September on the Monterey Fairgrounds site where the Festival was first presented in 1958, the Monterey Jazz Festival began as a dream of a "sylvan setting with the best jazz people in the whole world playing on the same stage, having a whole weekend of jazz" for founder Jimmy Lyons and his co-founder and colleague, Ralph Gleason. In 1958 with the first Monterey Jazz Festival brought in artists like Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, John Lewis, Shelly Manne, Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, Ernestine Anderson, Harry James, Max Roach and Billie Holiday. Every year since then, MHF presents the top jazz artists in the world on nine stages on the Monterey Fairgrounds in a three-day celebration of jazz. In addition, the Monterey Jazz Festival features jazz conversations, panel discussions, workshops, exhibitions, clinics, and an international array of food, shopping and festivities spread throughout the 20-acre Monterey Fairgrounds.
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