SummaryNote: This article was originally part of the Tauranga Memories website (2011-2020). It was created by Tauranga City Libraries staff (Jeena Reiter) on March 22, 2012 and uploaded to the Tauranga Jazz Society section.Main Body
The National Jazz Festival is the longest running Jazz Festival in the Southern Hemisphere and one of the oldest in the world. For 49 years the Festival has entertained hundreds of thousand of residents and visitors to the Bay of Plenty region.