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  • noun A festival of jazz music.

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jazz +‎ -fest

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Examples

  • The drums are playing wildly while shrieks of joyous, wild delight intersperse the melodic lines that are ecstatically woven into the fabric of this Kalahari jazzfest.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • Various venues, Wed to 3 Jul, jazzfest.co.ukJohn Fordham

    This week's new live music 2011

  • Various venues, Wed to 3 Jul, jazzfest.co.ukJohn Fordham

    This week's new live music 2011

  • A full program and advanced booking is available beginning Sept. 6 at www. jazzfest-berlin.de for performances at well-known local clubs A-Trane and Quasimodo, as well as the Savoy Hotel, the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and other locales.

    Berlin Broods Over a Glitz Invasion 2010

  • Link stanton moore aka “the energizer bunny” of jazzfest. the man is a musical machine and one of the best drummers in the business. — frank rinaldi

    Jazzfest: Preservation at Midnight - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • She deserves to be mocked for public rudeness to tourists at jazzfest.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For a city still suffering from a glacially slow pace of rebuilding, the unbridled enthusiast from some of the hundreds of thousands of people pouring into New Orleans for jazzfest, is a well needed emotional and financial shot in the arm.

    CNN Transcript May 3, 2008 2008

  • Then, when I am standing not too far from the stage watching Allen Toussaint play with Elvis Costello, all the sandals, flags on the ends of fishing poles, and vintage jazzfest t-shirts disappear.

    Slimbo's Jazz Fest Report Slimbolala 2006

  • Overheard at jazzfest, while Elvis Costello covered a Grateful Dead tune.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2005

  • Overheard at jazzfest, while Elvis Costello covered a Grateful Dead tune.

    Archive 2005-05-01 2005

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