OffBeat has published a Jazz Fest recap since the magazine started in 1988. Headlines like “Squeezing Out Sparks at Jazz Fest” or “The Best and Worst of Jazz Fest” were replaced by a recurring headline of “Jazz Fest Redux.” Although we are often copied by other local media, the format in OffBeat remains the original, one and only, Jazz Fest Redux. We hope you enjoy it.

Although attendance was down from 475,000 in 2022 to 460,000 in 2023, OffBeat predictions that ...