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Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and his quintet performs June 28 as part of the Stanford Jazz Festival’s opening weekend. Courtesy Eva Kapanadze.

The Stanford Jazz Festival has always been a wide-ranging event, blending a summer of educational experiences for young people with six weeks of performances for the public, in which top jazz artists serve as both instructors and performers.

The 2025 festival celebrates, now more than ever, the many facets of jazz and the numerous genres it complements and influences — as the festival website puts it,” jazz’s rich roots and its global connections.” […]

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Heather Zimmerman has been with Embarcadero Media since 2019. She is the arts and entertainment editor for the group's Peninsula publications. She writes and edits arts stories, compiles the Weekend Express...