Monterey Jazz
July 17, 2023
Come for the music. Come for the enhanced food court and artisan shops. Come for a weekend in Monterey. Come for the fierce fashions! Check out some iconic artists and audience looks throughout the decades.
July 17, 2025
After the success of the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island beginning in 1954, Jimmy Lyons and Ralph Gleason combined Rolodexes in 1956 and contacted the jazz elite...
February 10, 2025
Even though Jimmy Lyons had left San Francisco for the more pastoral environment of Big Sur on the Central Coast in 1953, he didn’t stray far from being a jazz impresario or...
February 10, 2025
In the era before Monterey Jazz Festival was founded, the building blocks for the idea of an outdoor festival originated with deejay Jimmy Lyons. Lyons had been working at...
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