National Youth Jazz Festival Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, and Zimbabwe. South African jazz students audition for places in the Standard Bank National Schools Big Band and the National Youth Jazz Band (NYJB). The NYJB performs regularly at festivals around South Africa—Grahamstown, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban—and has performed in New York City, Sweden and the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Netherlands. National Youth Jazz Festival The National Youth Jazz Festival runs as party of the National Arts Festival also known as the Grahamstown Festival which has been running in Grahamstown since 1974, and is the world’s second-largest single cultural festival, attracting performers
Telluride Jazz Festival on-site camping, outdoor recreation, jazz art walk, historical walking tours, and much more will round out the weekend celebration. The historical mining town of Telluride sits nestled in a scenic box canyon at 8,750 feet, surrounded by 13,000 foot peaks, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Over the course of more than 30 years, notable performers have included Muddy Waters, Dizzy Gillespie, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Chick Corea, Etta James, Herbie Hancock, Spyro Gyra, John Scofield, John Medeski, Ozomatli, Karl Denson, Jimmy Herring, Bill Frisell Trio, The Greyboy Allstars, Charlie Hunter, Doug Lawrence (jazz) and many more. Telluride Jazz Festival