MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL ON TOUR

Raul Midón, guitar and vocals
Ravi Coltrane, tenor and soprano saxophones
Nicholas Payton, trumpet
Musical Director Gerald Clayton, piano
Joe Sanders, bass
Gregory Hutchinson, drums.

There is one unofficial holiday that truly matters to jazz lovers. Every third weekend in September since 1958, thousands upon thousands make the pilgrimage to the fairgrounds in Monterey, California, for a three-day celebration of the best in jazz. Lucky for our audiences, in 2016 it’s the Monterey Jazz Festival itself that will be traveling, bringing with it the Festival’s hallmark “traditionalist-untraditionalist” attitude and jazz-with-a-purpose exuberance exemplified from the beginning by what founder Jimmy Lyons called “the best jazz people in the whole world….”