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About the Festival
As one of the nation’s largest and longest-running outdoor jazz music celebrations, the New Haven Jazz Festival has a rich history of bringing jazz lovers together to enjoy good company and great music. The Jazz Festival has done more than make music history, and for the past 25 years it has created countless family stories, become a yearly pilgrimage destination, and taught many of us that jazz is a music tradition worth keeping alive.
Jazz was the first really popular American music to be exported to the rest of the world and embraced by all. With its beginning at the community level, it really is the centerpiece of American music. It also tells us who we are as a people, as jazz borrows so readily from different cultures. It is also representative of American society: as Americans, we are Latino, Black, Asian — we are, most of us this and that, and that is jazz.
Since the New Haven Jazz Festival ceased production in 2007, it has become obvious to Jazz Haven and the New Haven jazz loving community that this beloved festival must resume and continue.
The signature event to begin Jazz Haven’s year-long program “All Jazz is Local: Building CommunityThrough Jazz”, will be the 2008 New Haven Jazz Festival. This year Jazz Haven has designed a program that will showcase artists who exemplify the link between local and national stages.