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Part III: The Beat Goes On: Jazz Appreciation 101
the Northwest Film Forum and multimedia performances at Consolidated
Works, a venue for collaborative arts.
Elkhart Jazz Festival, Indiana
Indiana is America’s school band capital and home to Selmer, the famed saxophone
company. It stands to reason, then, that Elkhart is a hotbed of jazz.
Elkhart’s jazz fest (www.elkhartjazzfestival.com), covering three days
in June, is a jazz extravaganza occupying seven indoor and outdoor stages
by the Elkhart River. It prides itself on placing you closer to the music than
other fests. Several venues seat 200 to 300; they’re small enough that there’s
not a bad seat in the house. Howard Alden, Shelly Berg, Kenny Davern, Ken
Peplowski, and Bucky Piazzarelli are the kinds of players who turn up here.
Indy Jazz Fest, Indiana
Each June, a couple of weeks after the Indianapolis 500, the city reasserts its
artistic identity with the three-day Indy Jazz Festival (www.indyjazzfest.
net). Broader than just jazz, the three-day event is held outdoors in Military
Park downtown — a 14-acre park in the shape of a military badge, in honor of
the Civil War military camp once based there. This festival is billed as “a
family reunion,” and children under 14 get in free with an adult. Near the
main stage, Neighborhood Row has booths manned by recreational and nonprofit
institutions with an emphasis on activities for kids. The musical lineup
has ranged from jazz greats like trombonist Slide Hampton and trumpeter
Christ Botti to blues guitarist Susan Tedeschi and pop singer Tony Bennett.
Monterey Jazz Festival, California
Monterey claims the title “longest running jazz festival in the world” (due to
the fact that the Newport Jazz Festival changed locations). The Monterey
Jazz Festival (www.montereyjazzfestival.org) began in 1958 and has
presented greats like Louis Armstrong, Art Farmer, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie
Holiday, and Max Roach. A counterpoint to the urban vibe of Chicago and
Detroit (covered earlier in this chapter), Monterey Jazz takes over the
Monterey Fairgrounds for three days in September, as the crowd reaches
40,000 plus. Historically, Monterey has been to the West Coast what Newport
Jazz was to the East Coast: the prestigious showplace for some of the
region’s best musicians to rub elbows with their international peers. Among
the West Coasters who have given Monterey its California flavor over the
years are Dave Brubeck, Charles Lloyd, Charles Mingus, and Gerry Mulligan.