Organizers of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival say the event set a new attendance record with an estimated 187,000 people checking out the hundreds of artists over the nine day extravaganza.
That figure tops last year's estimated total of 182,000.
WXXI is your ticket to Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival performances – even if you can’t make it to downtown Rochester every night.
Our videographers are hitting the streets, the clubs and the big performance venues to give you a flavor of the festival.
In the video box below see some of the scenes near Jazz Street, the Taurey Butler Trio, Daryl Hall, Keb' Mo' and others as they performed on Thursday, June 28 of the 2012 festival.
WXXI is your ticket to Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival performances – even if you can’t make it to downtown Rochester every night.
Our videographers are hitting the streets, the clubs and the big performance venues to give you a flavor of the festival.
In the video box below Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, Bill Evans Soulgrass, Ffear, and others as they performed on Wednesday, June 27 of the 2012 festival.
The name “Wes Powell” is probably an unfamiliar one to many of you. He’s a recent high school grad and a local jazz pianist heading off to the alma mater of some of this year’s Jazz Festival headliners including Esperanza Spaulding. As WXXI’s Helene Biandudi reports, this future Berklee College of Music grad, is just a small-town kid, with big city dreams.
_______________________________________________
“I don’t think music’s as great as people think it is,” said Wes Powell.
