Summit Jazz 2016 | Sept 30, Oct 1&2

Summit Jazz Foundation presents the 38th Annual Summit Jazz! The fun starts Friday, September 30 at 4:30 to 11:05pm, Saturday, October 1 at 10am to 11:10pm, and Sunday, October 2 – 10am to 5pm at the Radisson Southeast located at 3155 South Vaughn Way Aurora, CO. 

To foster awareness and appreciation of traditional jazz through public concert performances by internationally recognized artists who have earned their reputation as dedicated exponents of this musical genre. Traditional jazz originated with African-American musicians in New Orleans at the beginning of the twentieth century who evolved a collective improvisational way of playing music that evinced a melding of African and Euro-American musical heritage and incorporated the influences of the blues, ragtime, hymns, marching band music, prison work songs and street vendor shouts of those times. We define contemporary traditional jazz as the music created today by those artists who emulate the collective improvisational approach of the art form’s progenitors. Jazz is considered America’s only original art form.

Some of the lineup includes The Jim Cullum Jazz Band, Barnhart’s Classic Summit, Ivory&Gold & Other Elements, and many more.