Festivals · First held 1961

National Jazz and Blues Festival

First held: 1961

National Jazz and Blues Festival is a jazz festival, United Kingdom, first held in 1961.

The National Jazz and Blues Festival was the English precursor to the Reading and Leeds Festivals and was the brainchild of Harold Pendleton, the founder of the prestigious Marquee Club in Soho. Initially called The National Jazz Festival, it was a showcase for British and US jazz and was held at Richmond Athletic Ground in the sedate London suburb of Richmond. The first festival took place on 26-27 August 1961, and the headline acts included Johnny Dankworth and Chris Barber. Inspiration for the event came from the Newport Jazz Festival, held in the US since 1954. In 1964 the festival changed its name to "The National Jazz and Blues Festival", which reflected the change in musical tastes occurring in Britain in the early 1960s.

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