The 57th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival takes place September 19-21, 2014.
Since 1958, it has been held annually on the 20-acre, oak-studded Monterey County Fairgrounds, located at 2000 Fairground Road in Monterey, California.
More than 500 top jazz artists perform throughout the weekend on 8 stages spread throughout the grounds. Nearly every major artist in jazz has performed at Monterey.
As a...
Held every September on the Monterey Fairgrounds site where the Festival was first presented in 1958 the Monterey Jazz Festi...val began as a dream for founder Jimmy Lyons and his co-founder and colleague, Ralph Gleason. It was a dream of a "sylvan setting with the best jazz people in the whole world playing on the same stage, having a whole weekend of jazz." That dream became reality in 1958,...