April 20, 2011
It's Easter, and you know what that means: Oxford Jazz Festival is here again, with an action-packed four days of over 40 workshops, concerts and jam sessions featuring acclaimed jazz artists (from saxophonist and rapper Soweto Kinch to Grammy-nominated vocalist Norma Winstone MBE).
This year's theme is the celebration of British jazz - the sound that grew out of US jazz after the First World War, becoming well known in the 1940s via the work of John Dankworth, Ronnie Scott, Humphrey Lyttelton and others and growing and changing through the 1960s to today.
All 2011 Oxford Jazz Festival events are listed below right. Click a title for full details and to go through to the Jazz festival website for full info and tickets. Several shows sold out this year before the festival even started, so if there's something you like the look of, be quick! We will continue to update you here as further shows sell out, so please check back (or see the Jazz Festival website). And if you're going along to a show, please let Oxford know what you thought of it by submitting a review of it via this page. Happy Easter - and happy jazzing!
This year's theme is the celebration of British jazz - the sound that grew out of US jazz after the First World War, becoming well known in the 1940s via the work of John Dankworth, Ronnie Scott, Humphrey Lyttelton and others and growing and changing through the 1960s to today.
All 2011 Oxford Jazz Festival events are listed below right. Click a title for full details and to go through to the Jazz festival website for full info and tickets. Several shows sold out this year before the festival even started, so if there's something you like the look of, be quick! We will continue to update you here as further shows sell out, so please check back (or see the Jazz Festival website). And if you're going along to a show, please let Oxford know what you thought of it by submitting a review of it via this page. Happy Easter - and happy jazzing!
