Do you like jazz, or just damn good music in general? The 2016 Jacksonville Jazz Festival includes performances by a bevy of international and local jazz artists including Kem, John Batiste & Stay Human, Snarky Puppy, The McCoy Tyner Quartet (pictured), Dr. John, Generation Next, Nicholas Cole, Lin Rountree & Lebron, The Yellowjackets, Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Cuban Experience, and Nathan East. On the weekend evening tip, Jazz Fest After Dark goes down in The Elbow, with 40-plus acts including Jonathon Scales Fourchestra, Tribal Disorder, Ulisses Rocha, Drew Tucker & The New Standard, Control This!, Sandy Wicker & The Recollections, Heavy Flow, Rareluth, Speaking Cursive, Arvid Smith, Dovetonsil, Tropic of Cancer, Eric Carter & Co., Joe Watts Quartet, Tough Junkie, Master Radical, Tom Bennett, Strangerwolf, Billy & Bella, and General Tso’s Fury. Read our exclusive interview with JJF performer Longineu Parsones on page 39.
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