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Chicago Jazz Fest 2010
Music by Brad Mehldau, Brian Blade, Nicole Mitchell, Kurt Elling and many more great artists playing at the 2010 Chicago Jazz Festival happening in and around Grant Park on Labor Day Weekend.
Detroit Jazz Fest 2010
Music by Branford Marsalis, Maria Schneider, Mulgrew Miller and dozens more musicians appearing at the Detroit International Jazz Festival, also taking place over Labor Day Weekend.

Staff Picks
Updated 8/24/10
A handpicked selection of program director Lucas Gillan's favorite new releases. Read about the featured CDs on the AccuJazz AccuBlog.
Main channel
  • AccuJazz
    A diverse selection of jazz from every style and era

Style channels
  • Brazilian Jazz
    The best in Brazilian jazz, from Brazil and all over the world

  • Mellow Jazz
    Lush, sensous ballads as performed by jazz greats

  • Modern Mainstream
    The best in mainstream jazz from the last three decades

  • Straight Ahead
    Get your groove on with the best in swinging jazz

  • Everybody's Boppin'
    Everything bop, from bebop to hard bop

  • Old School
    Swing, Dixieland and old mainstream jazz

  • New School
    There is jazz after bop! Hear all types of modern jazz

  • Jazz Fusion
    All the best fusion is here, from Miles to MMW

  • Groove Jazz
    Funky music performed by great jazz musicians

  • Cutting Edge
    Adventurous modern jazz that's not quite avant-garde

  • Avant-Garde
    Jazz outside the box, from Ornette to Ken Vandermark

  • Third Stream
    Jazz and classical collide in the fusion called 3rd stream

  • Latin Jazz
    From "Manteca" to Michel Camilo, the best in Latin Jazz

  • Cool Jazz
    Music from cool pioneer Miles Davis and West Coast jazzers

  • Big Band
    The glorious sounds of big bands from every era
Instrument channels Region channels
  • Modern West Coast
    West Coast jazz beyond the cool school of the 50’s

  • Chicago
    Great jazz by musicians who call the windy city home

  • Europe
    A diverse array of wonderful jazz from Europe

  • New York
    Newer jazz created in NYC, the mecca of the jazz world

  • New Orleans
    The best in Crescent City jazz, from trad to progressive

Composer channels
  • Composers: Jobim
    Compositions of bossa nova maestro Antonio Carlos Jobim

  • Pop Composers
    Jazzers performing pop songs by artists from Beatles to Bjork

  • Beatles
    Jazz masters take on the music of the fab four

  • Bird and Diz
    Compositions by Parker and Gillespie, the fathers of bop

  • Monk
    Music composed by the incomparable Thelonious Monk

  • Ellington
    Music written by the Duke, performed by jazz artists


Decade channels
  • Pre-1940
    Take a tour of jazz's lively and swinging early years

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  • '40s
    The decade when swing was king, until dethroned by Bebop

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  • '50s
    Considered by many to be jazz's finest hour

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  • '60s
    A time of extreme change and innovation in the jazz world

  • '70s
    Fusion was everywhere, but hard bop was still going strong

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  • '80s
    Nothing but jazz from the ‘80s, from fusion to neo-bop

  • '90s
    Exciting new voices and elder statesmen in their later years

  • '00s
    An enormous collection of jazz from the last decade

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