WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS BEFORE?

Jazz Fest began as part of an eruption of outdoor music festivals in 1969, a byproduct of the immense forces of change at work in the 1960s—the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War and the rise of a music culture that expressed the need for wholesale reevaluation of American values. Local and federal authorities squashed the festival culture in most of its incarnations, but not Jazz Fest, which has gone on to be the King of music fes...