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May 9, 2022

Jazzmeia Horn

Award-winning vocalist Jazzmeia Horn announces her ever-expanding talents with the release of her first big-band effort, Dear Love, a recording that brims with the combination of her assured delivery and spoken world segments, deft arrangements and fiery musical ideas. Garnering praise from critics and fans alike, Dear Love is nominated for the Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Grammy Award. While the album functions as a platform for Horn to showcase both her perception of...

March 29, 2022

Rick Sawyer

2021 Inductee Harold Rick Sawyer III was a widely respected superintendent at the City of Jacksonville. Rick was born and raised in Massachusetts where he met his high school sweetheart, Karen. They married in 1974, had their only child in 1976, and relocated to Florida in 1984. At the City of Jacksonville, Rick was a supervisor in the Parks and Recreation Department and made great contributions to the Jacksonville Jazz Festival for over 20 years....

October 22, 2021

Jacksonville Jazz Fest 2021

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September 20, 2021

GIANCARLO ANDERSON

Multi-faceted percussionist, Giancarlo Anderson, was born in Colón Panama. He has over twenty-five years of experience as a performer in different genres of music with emphasis in Latin and other world music genres. As a child, he was inspired by the music of Afro-Cuban/Latin Jazz/Salsa pioneers such as Tito Puente, Machito, and Tito Rodriguez among many others; building this into his DNA as a musician. His passion for the drums then led him to...

September 15, 2021

John Lumpkin II

John Lumpkin II is a producer, arranger, and artist. He obtains a Bachelor's degree in Jazz Studies from the University of North Florida under the direction of Danny Gottlieb and a Master's degree from Florida State University under the leadership of Leon Anderson. In 2009 he was also a part of the Ravinia Steans Music Institute and Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program, John grew up in the pentecostal church and still plans to exercise...

September 15, 2021

FRANCISCO TORRES

Francisco Torres is a well-respected trombonist, bass trombonist, educator, composer and arranger who hails from the town of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Born in 1974, Francisco didn’t start his musical training until 15 years old, playing alto saxophone then switching to tuba and euphonium. By accident, he discovered jazz while watching the jazz band practice before school. He was hooked. After graduating from high school, he went on to study with Dr. Tony Mazzaferro and Dr. Greg...

September 15, 2021

Tia Fuller

When Grammy-nominated Mack Avenue recording artist, composer, educator and bandleader Tia Fuller picks up her saxophone, something amazing happens. Currently, Fuller balances the worlds of performance and education, magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Spelman College in Atlanta, GA, and summa cum laude with a Master’s degree in Jazz Pedagogy and Performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder. fulfilling a demanding schedule as both a busy touring, recording artist and a full-time professor at the...