FUN Zone
2017-06-30 16:00 - 21:00, 2017-07-01 11:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Washington St., Washington St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States

Culinary Row
2017-06-30 16:00 - 22:00, 2017-07-01 11:30 - 22:00 | IA

Beverage Garden
2017-06-30 16:00 - 22:00, 2017-07-01 11:30 - 22:00 | Clinton St., 10 S. Clinton St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States

United Jazz Ensemble
2017-06-30 17:00 - 19:00 | Iowa Healthcare Main Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
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United Jazz Ensemble

2017 Iowa City Jazz Festival
2017-06-30 17:00 - 2017-07-02 22:00 | Iowa Healthcare Main Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
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Smith Studio Jazz
2017-06-30 18:30 - 19:00, 2017-06-30 20:30 - 21:00 | Youth Stage, 101 S Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Smith Studio Jazz is a 20-piece big band playing jazz arrangements and improvisational combos. SSJ is playing the Iowa City Jazz Festival Youth Stage for the 4th consecutive year. Whether playing a standard jazz arrangement or an improvisational combo based on a rock song, SSJ’s goal is to have fun while creating a family-friendly party atmosphere for the audience.

The Jarrett Purdy Project
2017-06-30 18:30 - 19:00, 2017-06-30 20:30 - 21:00 | College Stage, 21 S Clinton St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
The Jarrett Purdy Project is a collective that unites the talent of the jazz programs at the University of Iowa and University of Northern Iowa. Performing almost entirely compositions by pianist and bandleader Jarrett Purdy, the group creates an energized, original sound that touches on both contemporary and traditional jazz styles. Members of the Jarrett Purdy Project include Lee Stickney (trumpet), Gerardo Gomez (saxophone), Peter Tearse (saxophone), Ryan Miller (bass), Ben Oetken (drums), and Jarrett Purdy (piano).

Tributary
2017-06-30 18:30 - 19:00, 2017-06-30 20:30 - 21:00 | Local Stage, 18 N Clinton St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
“Tributary is a collective of musicians from around the US dedicated to performing spiritually rich and honest music that is thoughtful, creative and improvisatory.”
Des Moines based percussionist Derek Dreier is an eclectic musician and educator, versed in a variety of musical traditions. Derek has a passion for teaching and outreach, as well as a deep commitment to his craft.
Derek performs regularly with the Omaha and Des Moines symphonies and is a member of Des Moines’ Synergy Nonet and co-founder of Tributary, a collection of jazz musicians dedicated to spiritually informed music. Derek tours annually with International Steinway Artist Jim McDonough and previously participated in a national tour with Chicago’s Close to You: The Music of the Carpenters.
Derek currently serves as percussion instructor at Urbandale and Hoover high schools and maintains a private studio.
Derek’s primary teachers include, Boston Symphony percussionist Will Hudgins, former timpanist of the National Symphony John Tafoya, Afro-Cuban specialist Michael Spiro, all-around percussion virtuoso Dane Richeson and drum set and latin percussionist (and father) James Dreier. He holds degrees from Lawrence University and Indiana University and completed two years of post-graduate work at the New England Conservatory.

Rhythm Future Quartet
2017-06-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Strauss Community Stage – Iowa City Jazz Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
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Rhythm Future Quartet

In Orbit with Jeff Coffin & Michael Occhipinti & Felix Pastorius
2017-06-30 21:00 - 22:30 | Strauss Community Stage – Iowa City Jazz Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
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In Orbit with Jeff Coffin & Michael Occhipinti & Felix Pastorius

Artist Booths
2017-07-01 11:30 - 21:00 | Clinton St., 10 S. Clinton St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States

North Corridor Jazz All Stars
2017-07-01 13:00 - 14:30 | Strauss Community Stage – Iowa City Jazz Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
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North Corridor Jazz All Stars

Midwest Youth Jazz Collective
2017-07-01 14:30 - 15:00, 2017-07-01 16:30 - 17:00 | Youth Stage, 101 S Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Local trumpeter Joey Schnoebelen joins with some of Illinois’ finest talent to entertain JazzFest lovers. The group will take standards as well as lesser known tunes and put their own unique twist on the music.

Blake Shaw Quintet
2017-07-01 14:30 - 15:00, 2017-07-01 16:30 - 17:00 | College Stage, 21 S Clinton St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Blake Shaw is an upright/electric bassist, composer, bandleader and private lesson teacher from Lisbon, Iowa who now resides in Iowa City. Shaw started on double bass at the age of 17 after becoming familiar with electric a year or two before. He started his college career in the fall of 2008 at Kirkwood Community College. This is where he had his first classical lessons on double bass with Jeanette Welch. He moved on to the University of Iowa to pursue a Bachelor’s of Music in classical double bass performance, studying with professor Volkan Orhon and completing that degree in 2013.
Along with playing in the University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra and UI Chamber Orchestra, Shaw played in a variety of jazz ensembles. These ensembles included guitar ensemble and small jazz ensembles both led by Prof. Steve Grismore. Some time was spent in Latin Jazz ensemble led by Prof. Jim Dreier and the Jazz Repertoire ensemble led by Prof. Brent Sandy as well. Shaw was fortunate in his senior year to play in the top jazz big band, “Johnson County Landmark” and in the Jazz Vespers. Both were under the direction of jazz area head Prof. John Rapson.

The George Jazz Trio
2017-07-01 14:30 - 15:00, 2017-07-01 16:30 - 17:00 | Local Stage, 18 N Clinton St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
The George Jazz Group is committed to playing the music of the 30s, 40s, 50s and beyond; music more commonly known as – “Jazz Standards.” This musical genre is truly an American art form which conjures up composers with titles such as Duke and Count; musicians such as Dizzie, Ella, Buddy, Monk and Sinatra. Songs with poetic lyrics found in titles such as Willow Weep for Me, Autumn Leaves, Our Love Is Here to Stay, I Bought You Violets for Your Furs and I’ve Got You Under My Skin. This is the musical culture that helped form the American landscape from New York to LA, with points between such as Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans. This is the music of our parents and grandparents as well as members of America’s youth before the word “Teenager” was coined.

Christopher’s Very Happy. Band.
2017-07-01 15:00 - 16:30 | Strauss Community Stage – Iowa City Jazz Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
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Christopher’s Very Happy. Band.

Jacob Garchik’s Ye Olde
2017-07-01 17:00 - 18:30 | Strauss Community Stage – Iowa City Jazz Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
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Jacob Garchik’s Ye Olde

Dakota Combo
2017-07-01 18:30 - 19:00 | Youth Stage, 101 S Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
The Dakota Combo is a program of the MacPhail Center for Music (Minneapolis), supported by the Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education (DFJE), A Twin Cities-based nonprofit whose mission is to create and support opportunities for Twin Cities area youth to play and learn through jazz. Selected each fall through open auditions, the Dakota Combo brings together tip instrumental jazz students in grades 9-12 to study and perform with renowned basist and educator Adam Linz. This year’s Combo is a quintet of five high school seniors: Adam Astrup, guitar; Ivan Cunningham, alto and soprano sax; Riley Swain, baritone and tenor sax; Max Voda, bass; and Simon Petrick, drums. The band plays a modern jazz repertoire including works by Monk, Mingus, Sonny Clarke, Ornette Coleman and more.

Jim Buennig
2017-07-01 18:30 - 19:00 | College Stage, 21 S Clinton St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
A native of Geneseo, Illinois, Jim Buennig [BYOO-nig] is a saxophonist based in Iowa City, Iowa specializing in a range of musical styles with his main focus being jazz. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies from Western Illinois University and is currently completing a Master of Arts degree in Jazz Studies at the University of Iowa. Buennig serves as a Teaching Assistant in the Jazz Studies department at the University of Iowa and is the director of the Bix Beiderbecke Youth Jazz Band, an auditioned group of middle and high school students from the Davenport, Iowa area.
Buennig and his groups perform extensively throughout the midwest and have been invited to perform at the Iowa City Jazz Festival and Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival. Jim’s major influences include Kenny Garrett, Jackie McLean, Cannonball Adderley, Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, and Tom Harrell.

Three Dawgs & a Bone
2017-07-01 18:30 - 19:00 | Local Stage, 18 N Clinton St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
This is a new band, but it is also a chance for 4 old friends to have a little fun playing more modern music (from off the beaten path) as well some originals. Hopefully you will find our approach to this music to be challenging and fun to listen too as well.
Our repertory consists of music by Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Steve Lacy, Herbie Nichols, Dave Holland, Duke Ellington, Paul Motion, Steve Swallow, and many others. The musicians in this group have been part of the Iowa City jazz scene for many years now and includes:
Jim Dreier (drums), Scott Barnum (bass), and Steve Grismore (guitar), and Rich Medd (bone)

Kris Davis Quintet
2017-07-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Strauss Community Stage – Iowa City Jazz Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
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Kris Davis Quintet
