Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee
- Monday, April 10, 2023
How often have you bemoaned the scarcity of improvised music at so-called “jazz” festivals? Big Ears in Knoxville, in the Southern US state of Tennessee, may be the antidote – an American city festival that makes no genre-based mission statement, but proudly programmes a solid half of (broadly defined) jazz acts. The rest? A trippy brew of avant-garde/experimental trailblazers, party-starting Latin and African exports, and hipster-approved folk, roots and indie darlings.
