Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee

Rob Garratt
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.

Charles Lloyd's Chapel Trio (Bill Frisell, Lloyd, Thomas Morgan)
Charles Lloyd's Chapel Trio (Bill Frisell, Lloyd, Thomas Morgan)

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