Clifford Brown Jazz Festival


The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival is a free jazz music festival held annually in June at Rodney Square in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. The first festival was held in 1989 on the open lawn in the center of the city, and has grown into the largest free jazz festival on the East Coast. The event is held to keep alive the memory of Clifford Brown who died in a traffic accident in 1956 along with pianist Richie Powell. Pieces written by Brown and tribute pieces are often played. Some acts have been staged at the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, where a fee was charged.

Past acts

;2020
;Arturo Stable Quartet
;Sharon Sable Quintet
;Cintron
;Gerald Chavis Quintet
;Mike Boone Quartet
;Barbara Walker
;Johnathan Barber & Vision Ahead
;Vertical Current
Raye Jones Avery - Voices For Healing
;Terra Soul Project
;Dennis Fortune
;The Whitney Project
;Korey Riker Band
;Fostina Dixon & Winds Of Change
;Jeff Bradshaw Band
;2019:Jeff Bradshaw & Friends
;2018:
;Laila Biali
;Matthew Whitaker
;The Clifford Brown Tribute Big Band with Gerald Chavis featuring Ernie Watts
;Miguel Zenon Quartet
;Jane Bunnett and Maqueque
;Arturo Sandoval
;The Lao Tizer Band featuring Chieli Minucci, Eric Marienthal & Karen Briggs
;Deva Mahal SPECIAL GUEST BRIAN MCKNIGHT
;Sammy Miller and The Congregation
;Sara Lazarus
;Scott Tixier
;Sidewalk Chalk
;Marcus Miller
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Jermey Pelt – Trmpt, Jason Curry – Sax, Leon Jordan, Jr – Trmpt, Daniel Bauerkemper – Sax,
Wayne Escoffery – Sax, Jason Marshall – Barritone Sax, Robin Eubanks – Trombone
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