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Detroit is not only famous for Hitsville USA/Motown. The Motor City has a rich jazz history. The city’s luminaries past and present include Betty Carter, Kenny Garrett, Sir Ron Carter, Dr. Donald Byrd, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell, Thad, Hank and Elvin Jones, Geri Allen, Regina Carter, Louis Hayes and Barry Harris, Yusef Lateef and Marcus Belgrave among numerous others.

The Detroit Jazz Festival One has been one of the premiere jazz festivals in the United States for over 40 years. It is the world’s largest free jazz festival that takes place over Labor Day weekend.

Baker’s Keyboard Lounge, which originated in 1933 is the city’s oldest jazz club. In 1986, Baker’s was designated as a Historic Site by the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office. The same year, trumpeter Woody Shaw recorded “Bemsha Swing” at the club with an all-star band: Geri Allen, Bob Hurst, and Roy Brooks.

Detroit’s jazz history dates back as far as the 1920s. In 1987 Congress passed U.S. Representative John Conyers Jr. House Concurrent Resolution 57 designating jazz a “national American treasure.” On March 21, 2014, Conyers introduced new Legislation to Preserve Jazz as a National Treasure.

Chicago isn’t the birthplace of jazz—New Orleans, Louisiana, holds that honor. However, during the Great Migration of the early 1900s, millions of Black laborers moved from the South to find work in thriving industrial cities like Chicago.

Among those heading northeast were New Orleans–style musicians, including Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, and Jelly Roll Morton, who came to Chicago in the 1920s and were key in creating Chicago’s namesake jazz style, helping the genre grow and blossom by playing in nightclubs, blues clubs, and jazz clubs on the South Side.

Developed in conjunction with the Chicago blues, these two local music genres have served as the foundation for modern genres like rock and roll and pop.

After long days exploring the city and diving into the foodie scene and marveling at the sights aboard a Chicago City Cruise around Lake Michigan, jazz fans can get their fill at several intimate jazz clubs throughout the city.

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Photos: Detroit Jazz Festival; Baker’s Keyboard Lounge; NEH/When Jazz Moved to Chicago; Homepage: Green Mill-Chicago