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Tuesday, June 23 - Schedule

Tuesday, June 23

12:00 p.m.: Jazz Starts at the Library with Danny Ziemann Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County (FREE)

1:00 p.m.: Jazz Workshop for Young Music Students Eastman School of Music (Room 120) (FREE)

4:00 p.m.: Kenny Werner Lyric Theatre ($20 or Club Pass)

4:30 p.m.: Athena High School Jazz Band Jazz Street Stage (FREE)

5:15 p.m.: Eastridge High School Jazz Band Jazz Street Stage (FREE)

5:30 p.m.: Holly Cole Harro East Ballroom ($20 or Club Pass)

5:45 p.m.: George Colligan Hatch Recital Hall ($20 or Club Pass)

6:00 p.m.: Carl Atkins & New Energy Big Band Rochester Regional Health Big Tent (FREE)

6:00 p.m.: Gap Mangione The Rochester Club ($20 or Club Pass)

6:00 p.m.: New Horizons Big Band Jazz Street Stage (FREE)

6:00 p.m.: Moutin Factory Quintet Montage Music Hall ($20 or Club Pass)

6:00 p.m.: Fred Hersch Trio Kilbourn Hall ($25 or Club Pass)

6:15 p.m.: Aaron Diehl Trio Max of Eastman Place ($20 or Club Pass)

6:30 p.m.: Harry Allen Quartet Xerox Auditorium ($20 or Club Pass)

6:45 p.m.: Cloudmakers Trio Christ Church ($20 or Club Pass)

7:00 p.m.: Interzone Little Theatre ($20 or Club Pass)

7:00 p.m.: Jimmie Highsmith RG&E-LiDestri Spirit Stage (FREE)

7:15 p.m.: Holly Cole Harro East Ballroom ($20 or Club Pass)

7:30 p.m.: Julia Hulsmann Trio Lutheran Church of the Reformation ($20 or Club Pass)

7:30 p.m.: Eastman Youth Jazz Orchestra Jazz Street Stage (FREE)

7:45 p.m.: Rob & Trey Squeezers Stage at the Sibley Building ($20 or Club Pass)

7:45 p.m.: George Colligan Hatch Recital Hall ($20 or Club Pass)

8:00 p.m.: Gary Clark Jr. with Beth Hart Kodak Hall ($33-$63)

8:30 p.m.: New Horizons Vintage Jazz Band Jazz Street Stage (FREE)

8:30 p.m.: Dirk Quinn Band Rochester Regional Health Big Tent ($20 or Club Pass)

8:45 p.m.: Cloudmakers Trio Christ Church ($20 or Club Pass)

9:00 p.m.: Harry Allen Quartet Xerox Auditorium ($20 or Club Pass)

9:00 p.m.: Jimmie Highsmith RG&E-LiDestri Spirit Stage (FREE)

9:15 p.m.: Interzone Little Theatre ($20 or Club Pass)

9:30 p.m.: Music Educators Big Band Jazz Street Stage (FREE)

9:30 p.m.: Julia Hulsmann Trio Lutheran Church of the Reformation ($20 or Club Pass)

9:45 p.m.: Rob & Trey Squeezers Stage at the Sibley Building ($20 or Club Pass)

10:00 p.m.: Dirk Quinn Band Rochester Regional Health Big Tent ($20 or Club Pass)

10:00 p.m.: Moutin Factory Quintet Montage Music Hall ($20 or Club Pass)

10:00 p.m.: Gap Mangione The Rochester Club ($20 or Club Pass)

10:00 p.m.: Aaron Diehl Trio Max of Eastman Place ($20 or Club Pass)

10:00 p.m.: Fred Hersch Trio Kilbourn Hall ($25 or Club Pass)

10:30 p.m.: Jam Session with the Bob Sneider Trio State St. Bar & Grill at the Rochester Plaza Hotel (FREE)

In This Guide...

  • Jazz Festival Guide 2015

    City Newspaper's guide to Rochester's biggest music festival. For more reviews, blogs, photos, and the latest news, check our website every day of the festival.

  • Festival Information

    Tickets, Venues, Parking and Additional Information

  • Friday, June 19 - Schedule

    Friday, June 19 3:45 p.m.: Buckman Heights Elementary School Jazz Street Stage (FREE)

  • Friday, June 19 - Musician Bios

    Friday, June 19 - Musician Bios Anthony Strong Fortified with an acclaimed live show, a tailored suit, and a grand piano, the Anthony Strong wears the "English Gentleman" role well.

  • Saturday, June 20 - Schedule

    Saturday, June 20 3:45 p.m.: Gates-Chili High School Jazz Band Jazz Street Stage (FREE)

  • Saturday, June 20 - Musician Bios

    Saturday, June 20 - Musician Bios 78 RPM Big Band A 16-piece band based out of Dansville, 78 RPM brings big band music all through Western New York.

  • Raul Midon

    When I reached Raul Midon by phone he had just returned from a tour of Europe. With a vocalist, lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist, bassist, percussionist, and trumpet player in tow, it could have been a complicated tour.

  • Sunday, June 21 - Schedule

    Sunday, June 21 3:45 p.m.: MCC Jazz Band Jazz Street Stage (FREE)

  • Sunday, June 21 - Musician Bios

    Sunday, June 21 - Musician Bios Benny Green Solo See listing for Saturday, June 20.

  • Herb Alpert

    It's 9 a.m., Pacific Time when Herb Alpert gave us a jingle-jangle a few weeks ago. He'd been up for hours recording "Whatever pops into my head," the 80-year-old jazz and pop trumpeter says.

  • Monday, June 22 - Schedule

    Monday, June 22 - Musician Bios 12:00 p.m.: Jazz Starts at the Library with Mike Kaupa Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County (FREE)

  • Monday, June 22 - Musician Bios

    Monday, June 22 - Musician Bios Blue Highway With more than 20 years together and 11 albums to show for it, Blue Highway is at the top of the bluegrass heap.

  • Jane Bunnett

    What is it about Afro-Cuban music that makes it the very embodiment of joy? Is it the dance of the exuberant polyrhythms as they weave in and out of one another?

  • Tuesday, June 23 - Musician Bios

    Tuesday, June 23 - Musician Bios Aaron Diehl Aaron Diehl turned more than a few heads with his gorgeous keyboard work when he played last year's XRIJF with Cecile Mclorin Salvant.

  • Wednesday, June 24 - Schedule

    Wednesday, June 24 12:00 p.m.: Jazz Starts at the Library with Mel Henderson Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County (FREE)

  • Wednesday, June 24 - Musician Bios

    Wednesday, June 24 - Musician Bios Aaron Diehl Solo See listing for Tuesday, June 23.

  • Fred Hersch

    Growing up in Cincinnati, Fred Hersch noticed that there was a piano in his house, so, at the age of 4, he sat down and started to pick out tunes. That precocious beginning led Hersch to a career as a sideman with greats like Joe Henderson, Stan Getz, and Art Farmer; as a leader on more than 40 albums; and an innovator who has expanded jazz into multimedia and the classical realm.

  • Thursday, June 25 - Schedule

    Thursday, June 25 12:00 p.m.: Jazz Starts at the Library with Doug Stone Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County (FREE)

  • Thursday, June 25 - Musician Bios

    Thursday, June 25 - Musician Bios Ali Jackson Trio The son of bassist Ali Jackson Sr., drummer Ali Jackson had strong encouragement at an early age from stars like Max Roach, Milt Hinton, and Aretha Franklin.

  • Sharon Jones

    Sharon Jones was scheduled to sing at the 2013 Rochester International Jazz Festival when her career was abruptly put on hold due to a bout with cancer. Consequently, the following feature article was also put on hold.

  • Friday, June 26 - Schedule

    Friday, June 26 12:00 p.m.: Jazz Starts at the Library with Mike Melito Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County (FREE)

  • Friday, June 26 - Musician Bios

    Friday, June 26 - Musician Bios Arstidir Iceland's Arstidir has spent the last six years touring in more than 30 countries.

  • Ingrid Jensen

    If instruments have personalities, trumpet has to be the most audacious and in your face. Maybe that's why not many budding female musicians are handed one.

  • Saturday, June 27 - Schedule

    Saturday, June 27 3:00 p.m.: Bill Tiberio Band East Ave. & Chestnut St. Stage (FREE)

  • Saturday, June 27 - Musician Bios

    Saturday, June 27 - Musician Bios Alex Pangman Regarded as Canada's "sweetheart of swing," Alex Pangman has proven herself a talented and learned student of the classic jazz singers.

  • Steep Canyon Rangers

    To the untrained ear, bluegrass tunes tend to run into each other, the patterns and loops of notes both picked and plucked can be a confusing barrage. That's not to say bands like this aren't accessible, you've just gotta be on your toes.