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Friday, August 8 - Sunday, August 10, 2025
Plaza de cesar Chavez Park, Downtown San Jose, Calif.

Featuring Jay Paul Company Main Stage Headliners:
COMMON, MAVIS STAPLES, PJ Morton, Ghost-Note, Femi Kuti & The Positive Force, Butcher Brown, José James

Plus:

Kiefer, The Headhunters, Stella Cole, Kishi Bashi, Tyreek McDole, Delbert Anderson, Something Else! ft. Vincent Herring, Jonathan Dely, Pacific Mambo Orchestra, Sachal Vasandani, Marisoul and the Love Notes Orchestra, Mary Stallings, David Binney Action Trio with Pera Krstajic & Louis Cole, Kazemde George Trio, Tom Scott & The LA Express, Saul Sierra Quintet: "Caminos, A Pan American Jazz Suite," Ray Obiedo Group ft. Lilan Kane, Akira Tana with Bobby Floyd, Atsuko Hashimoto & Jackie Ryan, Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir & Youth Choir, Oakland Jazz Choir, Bennett Roth Quartet, Nidia Góngora, Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca, Hermán Olivera with Orquesta Taino, Andre Cruz & Chris Lujan, Malo, Juan Prado Trio, All Things Swamp, SJZ High School All Stars, Synchronicity, SOJ Band, Los Tacoyos, Ames Big Band, Footnotes, Swing Solution, Full Spectrum, Top Shelf, Los Gatos-Saratoga Band, Green Feather,
and more headliners to be announced!

"Early Bird" 3-Day Passes On Sale Now
(Passes: $100 - $560)

About San Jose Jazz
Founded in 1986, San Jose Jazz is a public benefit organization celebrating jazz as a dynamic, evolving art form and is producer of the annual San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, Winter Fest, SJZ New Works Fest, among other events. San Jose Jazz innovates leading-edge initiatives to foster artistic ingenuity and preserve the jazz tradition as a forward-thinking movement. Through diverse music and educational programming, San Jose Jazz offers singular content and events by investing in the SF Bay Area ecosystem of exceptional talent for local and national audiences to enjoy.

San Jose Jazz Summer Fest is among the lexicon of trend-setting Northern California festivals featuring the most distinguished artists across a multitude of genres. For 35 years, SJZ Summer Fest has presented GRAMMY® Award-winning artists, the hottest salsa and Latin bands in the world, classic jazz legends, global music stars, the top SF Bay Area emerging musicians, and pioneering hip-hop, R&B, and soul artists. Past performers have included: Herbie Hancock, Common, En Vogue, Chris Botti, Michael Bublé, Ledisi, The O'Jays, Kool and the Gang, Kamasi Washington, Dianne Reeves, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Bootsy Collins, Big Daddy Kane, Sergio Mendes, Ozomatli, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Gregory Porter, Stanley Clarke, Robert Glasper Experiment, Domi & JD Beck, among many others.

For more information, please visit sanjosejazz.org.