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April 16 2024 

36th Annual

Music Spectacular

Jazz Festival

Maria Ressa Auditorium 

1245 Old Freehold Rd, Toms River, NJ 08753

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High school students and Jazz fans from New Jersey and Pennsylvania will be celebrating the 36th Annual Music Spectacular Jazz Festival.  The students will be guests of Wilbur Wittemann for his annual Big Band Jazz Festival. Previous festivals have featured Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, Lew Soloff, Clark Terry, Slide Hampton, Phil Woods, Louis Bellson, Arturo Sandoval, Byron Stripling, Allen Vizzutti, David Garibaldi, Bill Watrous, Bobby Shew, Steve Turre and Butch Miles, Bob Mintzer, Claudio Roditi, Dave Weckl and Wayne Bergeron.  

Contact Wilbur for more festival info.

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