[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> now that we're back to life as as it ida was before the pandemic or at least a close simulation of that, you know, the festival is as big as it ever was.

it is.

it is in person.

it is this incredible institution and marker in detroit.

i'd the hair stands up on the back of my neck when i think about jess passed every year.

>> all things even, you know, forty-fourth year this year.

what an amazing tradition of the city and a tradition that so connected the artists so connected to our citizenry and reflects in the visual arts and the narrative, arts and everything else.

it really it really speaks to us all.

and it's a joyous time.

it's a time to celebrate and to come together and meet new people in.

here's some music from the from the some of the most significant creative artists in the field right now.

so i'm i'm equally thrilled.

and thank you for your ongoing support and enthusiasm.

>> i just want to have you talked just a little about the rest of this year and the festival.

what's going on that the people that we have coming, the people who we are featuring who are already our of detroit and the detroit music scene.

but let's start with kareem reagan said this year's artist in residence.

>> yeah, it's it's it's a it's a wonderful thing.

cream reagan's, we talked for a number of years about this.

of course, he's been involved along the way and a number of our year-round, a educational outreach programs throughout the years.

and no, no doubt this year, he was as well and the like so many things.

you'll see the culmination of his work at the detroit.

yes, like so many other year-round, detroit jazz fest foundation projects.

you know, he p bring something new as you'll see through the entire festival lineup.

we're always looking for artists that are bringing something new to the genre of the art and the and the, you know, the heat, the dimensions of evolution that the r it is going through and kareem bring something special.

this is highly respected drummer on in the jazz world, by all accounts.

and then he has this whole other life in the hip-hop and electronic music scene as a new label.

that's that's under his name coming out and it it the represent someone who country truly bring together artistically these two worlds in a way no one's been quite able to do.

the forward will be doing that over three different performances throughout the festival.

it's going to stun the trajectory and i'm sure causal but talk.

yeah.

>> brittany, what i want to bring you into the conversation now and and that's a because we want to talk about this year's jazz fest poster and you are the poster artist, sarah, so that the it really is a stunning work of art.

but it also i you know, at each year, i say this as well really does capture the sense of who we are as detroiters and the fact that this is the trade ice festival.

but the britney to talk about how you came up with the imagery and the idea that you have and this year's and this year's poster.

>> yeah, thank you for that.

and i'm so grateful to be here like the poster to get reference to my granddad and my father who were the introduce there's of jazz in my own life.

i remember, you know, just traveling to the back seat in the front seat with my dad.

listen, it's all types of dads him making up stories to panic.

binney's like music, you know, like this little boy traveling night telling stories today, my granddad and he's got that that that, you know, like i belong downtown and going down south for a family reunion.

so anyway, all of that was in my brain.

plus more as i'm creating this poster because, you know, my dad, he recently transition is so did my granddad.

and i wanted to give rivers to them, you know, just too find another way to channel my own grief into a work of art.

yeah.

>> so so there are two figures in the post there this year.

that also makes me feel right at home like they look like detroiters it in where you're drawing on.

for those for those figures, is that is that also a reflection of the people who introduced to the jazz year, your family?

>> yes.

so i would say on the left that represents meeting.

yeah.

woman.

yeah.

right.

there's a male that represent both my dad and my grand am a grand day out is where those hands like that barbecue ahead.

i don't know.

haha.

yeah.

to speed is no one knows i'm in the same like physical structure on there.

but as that was just like this bringing together of me and my father, me and my great day ms were intimacy between both of us art articulated through the poster.

>> yeah, yeah, you know, it's it's really interesting to hear you talk about the poster and and the inspiration for the same story for me, my dad that listen to jazz all day, every day on the radio and on the record player and there was no other music in this house.

and so that's how i came to her to be the fan that i am of dads as well.

wjz, of course, played a huge role and and all that, that may be a little older than but you remember britney but heard about on a tour.

haha.

yeah.

so chris, again, a big get a another year with the with the poster talk about how important the poster is to the leg of the best.

>> i was immediately touched, you know, we had open call for for artist as we've done in the past.

and i was in the lee touched by the emotion and sentimentality that was represented in these two figures that are alone about, but at a major jazz festival hundred thousands of people.

and yet their their sphere of existence is quite intimate between the two of them.

and it speaks to something artists and patrons are go through in jazz, which is this passing on of the language of the stories and the the history of this music end up.

britney captured that so beautifully in such a personal way and yet it away, as you said, that touches all of us.

i two it was my father and his old record collection and talking about, you know, art blakey and coleman hawkins.

they got me looked and before i knew it, i i was begging to buy a saxophone and try to copy of those records.

you know, and you'll you'll you'll get a sense of that throughout the festival as a patron and the artist on this, joey, we talked about kareem, but, you know, the mix of artists this year, some rajoy and the ags mister richards, you know, three of the four and the jazz masters this year from detroit getting geared lucy's, they'll all be with us at the festival with the john scofield dee dee bridgewater.

jason ran danielle perez.

it goes on and on.

we have some wonderful women leaders.

beal was mamba lasalle donna alexa, tear into, you know, linda may.

these are these are up and coming important, important of musicians in the jazz world.

and then we have all our detroiters, you know that if he lives in the world that brittany lives in where it's about a family experience, a community experience our trip to gretchen late on opening night, one of the most, you know, important figures, a great angel of jazz year that will feature a bunch of detroiters and national artists all together to pay tribute to her.

and then also we have the detroit piano legacy tribute.

you know, the passing of barry two years ago.

it was quite the emotional for all of us.

we want to prepare do something special.

so throughout the festival, you'll see performances by current detroit piano celebrating the continuation of that legacy along with ours that new you and others in a very particular way.

so a lot of detroit presence right up to ours, residents whose in detroit native and of course, britney who was captured so beautifully.

the message has the message of detroit and the message of the detroit jazz festival.