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Jazz festival is part of a healthier Atlanta scene  | accessAtlanta: "By Jamie Gumbrecht

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Even as the Atlanta Jazz Festival was ousted from Piedmont Park for two years and lost financial support from the cash-strapped city, it wasn’t because the city's jazz scene was fading.

In fact, when the festival returns this weekend for its 33rd edition, it comes back to a crowd hungry for free music on Piedmont Park’s meadow and a scene bolstered by good venues and better musicians. more...