Watertown Jazz Festival

01/16/2026

🎉 What’s Happening at The Event Room! 🎉

We’ve got a full lineup of fun, music, and community events coming up — and you’re invited!

🗓 January 23rd
🎱 Bingo Party

🗓 January 30th
🕺 80’s Night – dust off those leg warmers and tease that hair!

🗓 February 14th
🥞 Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser
Supporting the Watertown High School Girls Softball Team 💜🥎

✨ Weekly Classes
💪 Barre Fitness
🤠 Country & Western Dance Class

🎟 Tickets & full event details are available on our website
👉 https://theeventroomtn.com/events-at-the-event-room

Grab your friends, mark your calendars, and come make some memories with us at The Event Room!

03/12/2024

2023 - The year of Jazz on the lawn! Shade trees and smooth Jazz!

08/21/2023

I wonder what year this was? Nice crowd. (GM)

08/21/2023

💙Today in 1959, Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" was released !! 💙

" Kind of Blue isn't merely an artistic highlight for Miles Davis, it's an album that towers above its peers, a record generally considered as the definitive jazz album, a universally acknowledged standard of excellence. Why does Kind of Blue possess such a mystique? Perhaps because this music never flaunts its genius. It lures listeners in with the slow, luxurious bassline and gentle piano chords of "So What." From that moment on, the record never really changes pace -- each tune has a similar relaxed feel, as the music flows easily. Yet Kind of Blue is more than easy listening. It's the pinnacle of modal jazz -- tonality and solos build from the overall key, not chord changes, giving the music a subtly shifting quality. All of this doesn't quite explain why seasoned jazz fans return to this record even after they've memorized every nuance. They return because this is an exceptional band -- Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb -- one of the greatest in history, playing at the peak of its power. As Evans said in the original liner notes for the record, the band did not play through any of these pieces prior to recording. Davis laid out the themes before the tape rolled, and then the band improvised. The end results were wondrous and still crackle with vitality. Kind of Blue works on many different levels. It can be played as background music, yet it amply rewards close listening. It is advanced music that is extraordinarily enjoyable. It may be a stretch to say that if you don't like Kind of Blue, you don't like jazz -- but it's hard to imagine it as anything other than a cornerstone of any jazz collection."

~Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic

https://www.facebook.com/TheWorldOfJazz

08/16/2023

2002 Watertown Jazz Festival (back of T-Shirt). I think we had it two days that year and other years. See pic below

07/22/2023

Working with the great Tony Bennett over the years was one of the true joys of my musical career. He phrased a tune like no other, breathing deep meaning into each lyric as if he was living it. Here’s a photo from the first time I worked with him in 1982 as a member of the Woody Herman band. The last time I worked with Tony was in 2016 as part of his 90th birthday celebration at Radio City Music Hall. R.I.P., TB.

Tony Bennett

07/21/2023

First Watertown Jazz Festival, July 13, 1996 > >

07/17/2023

We ended up having some royalty at our show on Saturday and didn't even know it. Mr. & Ms. Senior Watertown High School were in attendance, Harold Pulliam and Wanda Rowland. They were in attendance with their daughter, Rhea, who shared the photos with us! Thank you for attending!

Were you here? We'd love to see your photos! Please share them with us in the comments below and let us know who you are and where you're from!

07/16/2023

Much thanks to John Jewell, Jeff Tunks, Michael Stoffel, Robin Vance, Gary Batey, Scott Corley, Bill Shultz, Jason Bean, Steve Smartt, Bob McComb & Family, and the rest of the crew for all of their hard work in making this year's festival a success.

Also, much thanks to The Watertown Chamber of Commerce, Police, and Government as well as our sponsors and donors who make the festival possible . . . and of course, to the great musicians who performed!

Also, much thanks to Rick DeJonge and KHS America for sponsoring the brilliant trombonist, John Fedchock. https://khs-america.com/

Glenn Martin

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07/16/2023