The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival is a free jazz music festival held annually in June at Rodney Square in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. The first festival was held in 1989 on the open lawn in the center of the city, and has grown into the largest free jazz festival on the East Coast. The event is held to keep alive the memory of Clifford Brown who died in a traffic accident in 1956 along with pianist Richie Powell. Pieces written by Brown and tribute pieces (like Benny Golson's "I Remember Clifford") are often played. Some acts have been staged at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, where a fee was charged.

Past acts

2020

Arturo Stable Quartet

Sharon Sable Quintet

Cintron

Gerald Chavis Quintet

Mike Boone Quartet

Barbara Walker

Johnathan Barber & Vision Ahead

Vertical Current

Raye Jones Avery - Voices For Healing

Terra Soul Project

Dennis Fortune

The Whitney Project

Korey Riker Band

Fostina Dixon & Winds Of Change

Jeff Bradshaw Band

2019Jeff Bradshaw & Friends

Jamison Ross

Etienne Charles & Creole Soul

Alfredo Rodriguez

Spanish Harlem Orchestra

Pablo Batista w/ Nestor Torres

The Jenkins Project

Christian Scott

Norman Brown's Summer Storm

Fostina Dixon & the Winds of Change

Mwenso & the Shakes

Raye Jones Avery & Adagio

Kendrick Scott

Terrence Blanchard & E Collective

Branford Marsalis

2018

Laila Biali

Matthew Whitaker

The Clifford Brown Tribute Big Band with Gerald Chavis featuring Ernie Watts

Miguel Zenon Quartet

Jane Bunnett and Maqueque

Arturo Sandoval

The Lao Tizer Band featuring Chieli Minucci, Eric Marienthal & Karen Briggs

Deva Mahal SPECIAL GUEST BRIAN MCKNIGHT

Sammy Miller and The Congregation

Sara Lazarus

Scott Tixier

Sidewalk Chalk

Marcus Miller

2017

Clifford Brown Tribute Band

Alicia Olatuja

Theo Crocker

Karen Rodriguez

Danilo Perez Trio

Arturo O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble

High & Mighty Brass Band

Frederic Yonnet

Marsha Ambrosius

Wilmington Youth Jazz Band

Rob Zinn

Sumi Toonoka

Somi

Regina Carter

2016

Wilmington Youth Jazz Band

Maya Bellardo

Delaware Jazz All Stars

Miles Jaye

Marcus Johnson

The Ultimate Clifford Brown Tribute Band

Best Kept Soul

Miguel Orlando Band

Adriel Gonzalez Band

Aniya Jazz

Nadjah Nicole

Andra Day

Robert Glasper Trio

Saul Rubin Trio Feat. Leslie

Valery Ponomarev Big Band

Dr. Lonnie Smith

Euge Groove

Kim Waters

2015

Jackie Brown Jazz@a Band

Clifford Brown Trumpet Consortium

Aniya Jazz

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