This year's festival featured the best weather and the most fun in memory, a nonstop II-day house party thrown by an entire city for its friends around the world. OffBeat was there 24-7, and our editors and writers check in on the following pages with their fond and funky reminiscences

You had to be there "Is it Jazzfest yet?" George Porter Jr. asked the crowd at Jimmy's the night before opening day of Jazzfest 99. Fr...