{"id":261372,"date":"2025-09-28T13:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/261372\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:31:10","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/261372\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuity and expansion are the twin pillars for the second annual San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival, which takes places Thursday through next Sunday on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n

The lineup boasts Grammy Award-winners Arturo O\u2019Farrill, John Clayton, David S\u00e1nchez and Jorge Castillo, an all-star tribute to the late sax legend (and former San Diegan) James Moody, and such standout local artists as Gilbert Castellanos, Holly Hofmann, Irving Flores and Ivan Trujillo.<\/p>\n

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James Moody at 100: The late music great is being celebrated near and far<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rising singing stars Gabrielle Cavassa and Lucia \u2014 the winners, respectively, of the 2021 and 2022 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competitions \u2014 will make their festival debuts. And talented teenage musicians will be featured in The Binational Youth Ensemble, which will perform at the festival concerts in both San Diego and Tijuana.<\/p>\n

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San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival sets lineup for its second year<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cOur primary goal is to bring great music to the audiences in both cities \u2014 not only from outside the community but from inside \u2014 and to allow people to hear artists they might not otherwise hear,\u201d said Daniel Atkinson, who cofounded the festival last year with Tijuana concert producer and restaurateur Julian Plascencia.<\/p>\n

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San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival to debut, with seed money provided by Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That goal is made considerably easier by the fact that the festival\u2019s opening concert Thursday at the open-air venue Quartyard in downtown San Diego and closing concert next Sunday on the streets of downtown Tijuana are free to attend.<\/p>\n

Moreover, while Saturday\u2019s star-packed concert inside the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, is a paid-ticket affair, those ticketed performances will be complemented by free outdoor performances in the center\u2019s spacious courtyard.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take a lot of inspiration from the free annual jazz festivals in cities like Detroit, Chicago and Atlanta,\u201d Atkinson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, we\u2019re very happy to add an outdoor stage in Escondido with a couple of bands that anyone can come and see at no cost. We want to present the music to as many people as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Jan.The legacy of the late jazz saxophone and flute legend James Moody, who was a longtime San Diego resident, will be celebrated Saturday by an all-star, one-time only band at the San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival. He is shown here in early 2009 at his San Carlos home. (Nelvin C. Cepeda \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)
\n2025 San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival<\/p>\n

5 p.m. Thursday, Oct 2, in East Village:<\/strong> Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Sextet; The Less Likely; and the Binational Youth Ensemble, which features students from Ensenada trumpeter Ivan Trujillo\u2019s Instituto Contempor\u00e1neo de M\u00fasica de Baja California and from San Diego trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos\u2019 Young Lions Jazz Conservatory.<\/p>\n

3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, in Escondido:<\/strong> Arturo O\u2019Farrill & The Afro-Latin Ensemble, with the Fandango Fronterizo Colectivo; Gabrielle Cavassa; \u201cJames Moody @ 100,\u201d featuring David S\u00e1nchez, John Clayton, Gerald Clayton, Lewis Nash, Holly Hofmann and Gilbert Castellanos; Lucia; Ivan Trujillo Ensamble<\/p>\n

3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, in Tijuana:<\/strong> Arturo O\u2019Farrill & The Afro-Latin Ensemble, with the Fandango Fronterizo Colectivo; Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Sextet; Lucia; The Less Likely; Binational Youth Ensemble<\/p>\n

Where:<\/strong> Thursday at Quartyard, 1301 Market Street, East Village, San Diego; Saturday at California Center for the Arts, Escondido, 340 N. Escondido Blvd., next Sunday at Avenida Revolucion, between Calle Hermenegildo Galeana and Calle Flores Magon, Tijuana.<\/p>\n

Tickets:<\/strong> Admission on Thursday and next Sunday is free, as are Saturday\u2019s outdoor performances. Ticket prices for Saturday\u2019s indoor performances range from $42-$118.80. Attendees with orchestra section seats for Saturday\u2019s indoor concert can purchase $85 passes, while supplies last, that include a hosted dinner that night plus VIP seating at Thursday\u2019s and next Sunday\u2019s concerts.<\/p>\n

Phone:<\/strong> 760-839-4138<\/p>\n

Online:<\/strong> sdtjjazz.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Continuity and expansion are the twin pillars for the second annual San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival, which…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":261373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,42364,1582,276,171,10087,5424,8738,3549,3550,7264,1072,55993,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-261372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-baja-california","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-escondido","14":"tag-music-and-concerts","15":"tag-north-county","16":"tag-san-diego","17":"tag-san-diego-county","18":"tag-sandiego","19":"tag-things-to-do","20":"tag-tijuana","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115282174549609566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}