San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, returns to Plaza de César Chávez from Friday, August 9 – Sunday, August 11, 2024, turning the heart of downtown San Jose into an immersive cultural mecca. With nine indoor and outdoor venues featuring more than 80 artists representing the best in jazz, R&B, Latin jazz, salsa, soul, funk, bossa nova, blues, and a myriad of other idioms, SJZ Summer Fest 2024 also proudly presents the most stylistically diverse Latin music event on the West Coast.
SJZ Summer Fest 2024 reaches new heights by presenting piano/keyboard legend Herbie Hancock (Main Stage Headliner — Sat. Aug. 10), whose trailblazing role introducing synthesizers and new audio technologies to jazz and funk make him a perfect fit for Silicon Valley.
Hancock marks the highest profile artist yet to grace the Main Stage at SJZ Summer Fest over the festival’s 34-year history. One of the most influential musicians in jazz history, the 14-time GRAMMY Award-winner Hancock has been in the creative vanguard throughout his six-decade career, from his 1960s tenure in the Miles Davis Quintet and his epochal jazz/funk band Headhunters through his groundbreaking 1983 jazz/hip-hop hit “Rockit.” SF Bay Area music fans will be ecstatic with his high-energy live performance transcending the limits of jazz and funk.
Main Stage headliners also include gospel/jazz organ prodigy Cory Henry, funk stalwarts The Family Stone, two hot New Orleans acts: the trumpet sensation Shamar Allen and next generation second line group New Breed Brass Band, and vocal powerhouse from 20 Feet From Stardom fame Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton. Additional acts at SJZ Summer Fest 2024 on its array of nine stages, also includes Jahari Stampley Trio, Eddie 9V, Nico Segal, Sean Mason Quartet, Dominique Fils-Aimé, Jane Monheit, Natalie Cressman & Ian Faquini, NIKARA Presents Black Wall Street, Jorge Luis Pacheco Trio, Roberta Gambarini Quartet, Lucía Gutiérrez Rebolloso, Ken Okada Group Featuring YOYOKA, Andrey Chmut with the Dave Burns Quintet, Groover Quartet with Mike LeDonne, Se:um, Alexis & La Original, Agua Pura, The JuJu Exchange, Janet Evra: Meet Me In Paris, The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol & Charles Haynes, Cabanijazz Project, Pascal Bokar, Huney Knuckles, Alejandro Brittes Trio, Dolphin Hyperspace, Karl Perazzo & Mike Spiro Y Su Conjunto Karabali, Baycoin Beats, Michael Davis Hip Bone Big Band, San Jose Jazz High School All Stars, and Many More to be Announced!