Attracting more and more visitors each year thanks to its worldwide reputation, the Montreal International Jazz Festival has become, in the space of thirty years, THE jazz rendezvous of the planet. Today, visitors can choose from among over 500 concerts – some 350 of which are presented outdoors, free of charge – that showcase the talents of the world s finest performers of jazz music and its spin-offs. Some 2,000 artists and over 1.5 million festival-goers converge upon Montreal each summer. This souvenir publication, with amazing photography, interviews and stories surveys the history of this event.