Let The Good Times Roll With New Jazz Fest Box Set!

Few music festivals are as rich, profound, and joyous as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, now entering its 50th year. With 50 tracks recorded live, Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival captures the festival’s ecstatic spontaneity, which defines the essence and vitality of American popular music. Ever since its inception a half century ago, Jazz Fest has exuberantly expressed the unique confluence in New Orleans of Native American, African, Caribbean, European, Hispanic, and Asian communities.

This sampler features 13 airplay-ready tracks from iconic artists such as Trombone Shorty, Irma Thomas, Dr. John, Professor Longhair, and more! Be sure to check out the track annotations excerpted from the set’s accompanying 136-page book, featuring essays and annotations from Keith Spera, Karen Celestan, Robert Cataliotti, Jeff Place, Rachel Lyons, and Jon Pareles, plus photos spanning the festival’s history.

Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival delivers the sights and sounds of being at Jazz Fest for those who have not yet been there, and rekindles memories for the hundreds of thousands who return to New Orleans year after year. 5 discs, over 300 minutes of music! Contact Seth Langer at langers@si.edu with questions or comments.