Jazz Fest! The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival [Box Set]
by Various Artists
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  1. Uncut
    Jun 10, 2019
    70
    Well-annotated five-disc boxset. ... The collection does include a fair bit of drearily competent pub blues, but even here there are some glorious moments. [Jul 2019, p.48]
  2. AllMusic
    Jun 10, 2019
    80
    The very existence of Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival indicates how the event has become a cultural institution, influencing countless other regional festivals in the decades since while retaining a unique blend of local institution and tourist destination. Smithsonian Folkways remarkably re-creates that appeal with their box set, offering 50 live tracks recorded at the fest over its 50 years, a collection that illustrates how far beyond jazz the festival has grown.
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  3. Mojo
    Jun 10, 2019
    80
    Where it really gets interesting--when you notice how music evolves and genre names become meaningless-is when the walls of commerce tumble down because musicians found freedom in the cracks and crawled through. [Jul 2019, p.106]
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