Set up in 1958, four years after the Newport Jazz Holiday became the 1st big out of doors jazz event, the Monterey Jazz Holiday has been one of the biggest annual jazz holidays in the world. Held each September on the Monterey Fairground in stunning Monterey, California, the holiday commenced when Jimmy Lyons, a jazz radio host in San Francisco, wished to host a holiday in the spotless hills near Monterey Bay. Thanks to many tiny contributions from local firms, the 1st Monterey Jazz Holiday managed to program such important acts as Billie Vacation, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, and lots more. The Monterey Jazz Festival generally features around fifty concerts on 9 stages over the course of a few days. Lately, the holiday has added panel consultations, workshops, and hospitals across the 20-acre fairground. The holiday audience usually consists of almost forty thousand folk. As well as programming the holiday, the Monterey Jazz Holiday also searches for to push jazz through tutorial programs, grants, and a record label that releases recordings of famous jazz holiday performances.

Lineup for the 53rd Monterey Jazz Holiday , held from Sep 17th-19th, 2010 :

* Fri. , Sep seventeen Septeto National de Cuba ; Les Nubians ; Roy Hargrove Huge Band ; Nellie McKay ; Marcus Roberts Threesome ; Brass, Bows & Beats ; Rudders Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition ; Mark Levine & the Latin Tinge Music of Moacir Santos ; the House Jacks ; Ben Flocks Quartet ; Berklee World Jazz Institute Septet

* Sat. , Sep eighteen Delbert McClinton Band, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens ; Liberty Band with Chick Corea, Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride, Roy Haynes ; Dianne Reeves, Billy Childs Quartet ( with Steve Wilson, Scott Colley and Brian Blade ) and the Kronos Quartet, Music for Two Quartets ( 2010 MJF Commission ) ; Jake Shimabukuro ; Chris Potter Underground ; Septeto National de Cuba ; Gretchen Paratoo ; Kronos Quartet ; Billy Childs Quartet ; Some ; Gerald Clayton Threesome ; Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue ; Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens ; John Firmin & the Nocturne Band A Tribute to Hank Crawford, David Fathead Newman & Leroy Hog Cooper ; Hristo Vitchev Quartet ; Berklee Worldwide Jazz Institute Septet ; Mo'Fone ; Downbeat Blindfold Test with Fred Hersch ; Conversation with George Wein

* Sun. , Sep nineteen Angelique Kidjo featuring Christian McBride, Lionel Loueke, Kendrick Scott, Mino Cinelu ; new generation Jazz Orchestra with VIP guest Dianne Reeves ; Top school Giant Band from the new generation Holiday ; Harry Connick, Jr. ; Ahmad Jamal ; Dianne Reeves Strings Attached with Russell Malone & Romero Lubambo ; Roy Haynes spring of youth Band ; Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio ; Javon Jackson Band with Les McCann Swiss Movement Revisited ; Fred Hersch Trio ; Sachal Vasandani ; George Wein & the Newport All-Stars ; Kim Nalley ; Le Boeuf Bros ; Banana Slug String Band ; Conversation with Roy Haynes ; Conversation with Sam Stephenson from The Jazz House Project ; Nice Guy Threesome ; the States's best high college & university bands.