Glasgow International Jazz Festival - A Leading Event on Europe's Music Calendar

• What: Every kind of contemporary and traditional jazz in Scotland's coolest city.
• When: June 20 to June 29 in 2008
• Where: Venues all over Glasgow
• Admission: Ticket prices vary, booking through individual venues, accessed through the website
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Since it was named the European City of Culture, in 1990, Scotland's "second city" has become cooler and cooler. The popular annual jazz festival features mostly home grown talent and the scope of Scotland's own jazz musicians is impressive. Expect everything from free improve, blues, cool and hot jazz, reggae, hiphop, fusion, progressive, R&B, and soul to Dixieland, New Orleans style and Swing.