Collegiate+Jazz+Festival

=Collegiate Jazz Festival=

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The [|University of Notre Dame] in Notre Dame, Indiana is home to the nation's oldest Collegiate Jazz Festival.¹ The festival, held in February each year, began celebrated 50 consecutive years in 2008. The festival features about 10 jazz bands each year, in a non-competitive format that "focuses on learning." Judges critique and provide feedback for each band during the festival. In 2008, judges included Jamey Aebersold, a saxophonist, Gene Bertoncini, guitarist, Jim McNeely, pianist, Dan Morgenstern, writer and historian, Larry Ridley, bassist, Marvin Stamm, a trumpet player, and Clif Wallace, drummer. All of the judges were former "competitors" at the Collegiate Jazz Festival during their own college careers.

The festival is commemorated with a marker on campus, which is actually located on the only stone remaining from the old Notre Dame Fieldhouse, which was destroyed in 1983. This fieldhouse, as a marker on the opposite side of the stones indicate, is where "varsity and intramural athletes shook down the thunder for seventy years 1898-1968." and "President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a special University convocation in the Fieldhouse December 9, 1935." The marker commemorating the Collegiate Jazz Festival is pictured below:





Where:
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The University of Notre Dame is located in Notre Dame, Indiana, which is in northern Indiana about 70 miles away from Chicago and 130 miles away from Indianapolis.

When:
__February, dates vary__

**How:**
Check out the [|CJF website] for details. Tickets are available free of charge to students of Notre Dame, St Mary's and Holy Cross. The general public may also obtain tickets for $5/session, $9/two sessions or $12/three sessions. Tickets are available at the LaFortune Box Office (open daily 9:00 am-1:00 am) on the University of Notre Dame campus, or via phone. Call the LaFortune Box Office at (574) 631-8128.

1. "News and Information." University of Notre Dame. http://www.nd.edu (accessed October 14th 2008).
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