For a life changing musical experience...
15th Annual
Litchfield Jazz Festival
August 6 — 8, 2010
AT Kent School • Kent, Connecticut
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A summer in the Litchfield [hills] is always green and glorious, but how much sweeter it becomes when the strains of jazz, pure and beautiful, are carried on the summer wind.
15th anniversary Line-up celebrates dave brubeck's 90th year & much more.
- All-Star Cannonball Adderley Tribute
- Hugo Alcázar
- Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet
- Wess Anderson
- Dave Ballou
- John Benitez
- Justin Brown
- Dave Brubeck Quartet
- Jane Bunnett & the Spirits of Havana
- Gerald Clayton
- Gerald Cleaver
- Anat Cohen Quartet - Clarinetwork, Benny Goodman & Beyond
- Tedd Firth
- Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer
- Chris Grasso
- Benny Green
- Jimmy Greene
- Allen Gumbs
- Winard Harper
- Tom Hubbard
- Randy Jones
- Yuri Juarez
- Laura Andrea Leguía
- Freddy "Huevito" Lóbaton
- Peter Madsen
- Tony Malaby
- Bobby Militello
- Michael Moore
- Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
- Joanna Pascale
- Mario Pavone Orange Double Tenor Sextet
- Albert Rivera
- Dave Samuels and the Caribbean Jazz Project
- Joe Sanders
- Avery Sharpe
- Terell Stafford
- Denise Thimes
- Peter Washington
- Aaron Weinstein
- Matt Wilson
- and more...
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News & Updates 
Aug 8, 2010
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
The Litchfield Jazz Festival, which has been uniting people of many colors, cultures and creeds for over a century, provided a healing through music for a state rocked by the tragedy of the Manchester shootings last week. Nowhere was this cross-cultural harmony more pronounced than during Saturday's final performance by Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. More»
Aug 5, 2010
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
By OWEN McNALLY, Special to The Courant. Anat Cohen, one of the best among Israel's many jazz exports to the United States, demonstrates her world-class clarinet chops Sunday night as she performs with her quartet at the 15th annual Litchfield Jazz Festival in Kent. A highlight of the star-studded weekend bash, the multi-talented Tel Aviv native pays homage to legendary clarinet virtuoso Benny Goodman (1909-1986) in a swinging salute to "The King of Swing" called "Clarinet Work: Benny Goodman & Beyond."
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Aug 4, 2010
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
Celebrating its 15th season, the Litchfield Jazz Festival this weekend both honors and presents Dave Brubeck, the legendary and still swinging composer/pianist/bandleader who turns 90 on Dec. 6. More»
Jul 31, 2010
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
Terell Stafford joined Rhonda Hamilton in the WBGO studio last week to explain how Bill Cosby turned him on to teaching, and to discuss his upcoming gig with the Cannonball Adderley Tribute Band at the Litchfield Jazz Festival. Terell joins Bela Fleck, Dave Brubeck, Gerald Clayton and others in Connecticut to celebrate the event’s 15th Anniversary on Saturday, August 8th. More»
