By Jim Gallert and Lars Bjorn Detroit Jazz devotees eagerly wait for Labor Day each year. We know on Labor Day Weekend, Hart Plaza will be filled with the sounds of Jazz. Sixty-two years ago, August 1959, Detroit hosted its first Jazz Festival, at the old Michigan State Fairgrounds site […] Read More »

The Detroit Jazz Festival has been showcasing World-Class Jazz since 1980. It is now the largest, free jazz festival in the world. Lars Bjorn and Jim Gallert have been honored to host the Jazz Talk Tent since its birth in 1994. We thank the late Gretchen Valade, our East-side Jazz Angel, […] Read More »