Past JazzFest Line-ups
2008
- Johnny O'Neal Trio
- Rayse Biggs
- Beauty and the Beat
- Byron Lyles' Crystal Jazz
- Children's Ballet Theatre of Michigan
- Don Phillips
- Ed Smith's JazzFest All Stars
- GEQ
- Happendance 2
- Happendance's Community Dance Project
- Jazz Doggs
- Joe Gloss Trio
- Lansing Symphony Big Band
- Linda Abar and the Neil Gordon Trio
- Los Gatos
- MessageMakers Band with Pericles Gomes and Consuelo Campbell
- organissimo
- Sheila Landis Trio
- Sunny Wilkinson
- The Fabulous Heftones
- The NuPoet Collective
- The Open-Late Thursdays
- Thom Jayne and the Nomads
2007
- Mose Allison
- Caleb Curtis Quintet
- Children's Ballet Theatre of Michigan
- Community Dance Project
- Ed Smith's Jazz All Stars
- Happendance
- Jazz Karaoke
- Jim Cooper Quartet
- Koke McKesson
- Kris Johnson Quartet
- Lanswingers
- Message Makers Band
- Mike Daniels Drum Clinic
- Mike Skory and the Lansing All-Stars
- Neil Gordon Quartet feat. Dan Jacobs
- organissimo
- Paul VornHagen Quintet
- Ritmo
- Sunkwa
- Too Smooth for Notes
2006
- Johnny O'Neal
- Tim Cunningham
- Bill Bastian Quartet!
- David Rosin Trio
- Don Phillips
- Five Deep
- GroovElation
- Jeff Haas Quartet featuring Rob Smith
- Lansing School District All-City Jazz Band
- Lansing Symphony Big Band
- Lisa Smith
- Marcia Allen & Shared Philosophy
- Nu Poets
- T.J. and Mike
- Tumbao Bravo
- Children's Ballet Theatre of Michigan
- David Rosin: Intro to Jazz
- Ed Fedewa: The Expanding Role of the Jazz Bassist
- Happendance presents Community Dance Project
- Johnny O'Neal: Q & A
2005
- The Professors of Jazz at MSU
- Michael Kaeshammer
- Straight Ahead
- Thom Jayne and the Unusual Suspects
- Claudia Schmidt Quintet
- Too Smooth for Notes
- Tyrone Johnson Quintet
- Kathy Engen
- Francis Kofi
- Dick Fizzell & The Dixieland Express
- Soul Content
- Sunrise II
- Jeffery Stewart Newton and Jim David
- Society
- Jazz Doggs
- Don Philips
2004
- TS Monk
- Michael Kaeshammer
- Tyrone Johnson
- Marcus Belgrave & Friends
- Los Gatos
- Koke McKesson
- Lansing Symphony Big Band
- Victor Trachsel & Don Disalvio
- Diego Rivera
- Thom Jayne & The Free Radicals
- Don Phillips
- Mike Skory and Friends
- Bill Bastian & Ed Fedewa Trio
2003
- Biakuye
- Dave Sharp Quintet
- Evidence Jazz Group
- Jeff Hass Trio w/ Marcus Belgrave
- Kathy Engen w/ Steve Frarey
- Odessa Harris Group
- Organissimo
- Raw Silk w/ Beverly Robinson
- Rumba Club
- Steppin' In It
- Sunny Wilkinson
- Lisa Smith & Mike Skory Trio
- Children’s Ballet Theater of Greater Lansing
2002
- Don Phillips
- Baldori & Gardner
- Brownhouse
- Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra Big Band
- Lisa Smith & Mike Skory Trio
- Ray Kamlay Trio
- Ritmo
- Tim Cunningham
- Too Smooth for Notes
- Tyrone Johnson
- Wally's Warehouse Waifs
- Ed Fedewa Trio
- Children's Ballet Theater of Greater Lansing
2001
- Big Red & The Quartet
- Flat Foot Quartet
- Geriatric 6 Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra Big Band
- L-Town Jazzcats
- Lisa Smith & Mike Skory Trio
- Los Gatos
- Marcus Belgrave
- Ramona Collins
- Root Doctor
- Samba 4 Mi
- Sheila Landis
- Straight Ahead
- The OtherBand
- Those Delta Rhythm Kings
- Tyrone Johnson Quintet
- Children's Ballet Theater of Greater Lansing
2000
- Byron Lyles & Adventure
- CT & Company
- Ed Fedewa Quartet
- Francis Kofi & Sankofa Shule
- HODI (International Band-Tanzania UK Australia)
- Layers w/ Koke McKesson
- Lisa Smith & Mike Skory Trio
- Main Street
- Marcus Belgrave & the Detroit Jazz Musicians Co-op
- Pantheah Hawes and the Goode-Stuff
- Paul VornHagen Quartet
- Ritmo
- Samba 4 Mi
- The Sunny Wilkinson Band
- Those Delta Rhythm Kings
1999
- Betty Baxter
- Betty Joplin
- Big Red
- Carl Cafagna and The Creole Kitchen
- Paul VornHagen
- Ritmo
- Sheila Landis
- Those Delta Rhythm Kings
- Tim Cunningham
1998
- Byron Lyles & Adventure
- Capital Jazz Quartet
- Carl Cafagna & North Star
- Mike Daniels and Layers
- Patti Richards Trio
- Paul VornHagen
- Peace 2000
- Ritmo
- Root Position
- Sam Mills and Mark Grafe
- Sunny Wilkinson
- Swingmasters
- The Schumakers
- The Organization
- The Eric Reed Trio
- Children's Ballet Theater of Greater Lansing
1997
- Carl Cafanga & Boplicity Betty Joplin
- Layers/Koke McKesson
- Monday Mourning Blues
- Patti Richards Trio
- Paul VornHagen
- Peace 2000
- Ritmo
- Straight Ahead
- Swingmasters
- The Schumakers
- Tim Cunningham
- Too Smooth for Notes
- Tru-Art Connection
- Yatra/Tim Thelen
1996
- Boplicity & Tim Drackert
- Koke McKesson
- Ed Fedewa
- Francis Kofi & Felicia Adeti
- Jackson Jazz Ensemble
- Music Box
- Patti Richards Trio
- Paul VornHagen
- Ritmo
- The OtherBand
- Tia Hanna
- Vee Nash
- Victor Trachsel
- Yatra
1995
- African Drummer/Dancer Francis Kofi
- Big Bob & the Raga Muffin 4
- Coitados Unidos Na America
- David Rosin Group
- Ed Fedewa
- Francisco Mora Band
- Geriatric 6
- Joe Lulloff
- Ramsey Hussain Group
- Sunny Wilkinson
- The OtherBand
- Those Delta Rhythm Kings
- Tim Thelen Group
