Here are photos of the A2 Jazz Fest 2018 credits to Jeff Dunn! Click on the respective pictures to see the entire album of each band's performance! 

The 2018 A2 JAZZ FEST T SHIRT DESIGN!!! T shirts will cost USD20 each and will be sold on the event day. All proceeds benefit the musicians, support staff and the NEXT A2 JAZZ FEST!!

Marion Hayden is part of the great Detroit Jazz bass legacy. As a young protégé of trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, she learned improvisation, ensemble performance, repertoire and a deep appreciation for jazz and its creators. Marion combines these influences in a unique...

The Trunino Lowe Quartet is comprised of four friends who love to play together. The quartet features Trunino Lowe on trumpet, Louis Jones III on drums, Jonathon S. Muir-Cotton on bass and Sequoia Snyder on keyboard. The band will be performing original music and...

RAKA is a world percussion ensemble featuring bass, guitar and the East African stringed instrument called the NYATITI. Raka takes East African nyatiti traditions and fuses them with modern day world percussion and electrified guitar sounds to create something new and...

Sean Dobbins Trio Drummer Sean Dobbins leads a trio featuring Corey Kendrick on piano and Rob Bickley on bass. The group will play tunes from their upcoming release, The Trio Files – a combination of jazz, blues, spirituals, and gospel music. Their repertoire, which...

Tumbao Bravo Formed in August 2003 by reedman Paul VornHagen and conguero Alberto Nacif, this exciting Cuban jazz combo has released five critically acclaimed CDs of mostly original compositions that have been featured on all the major jazz public radio stations...

Jon Taylor’s Beam Songs Beam Songs is a new project of original music led by drummer-composer Jon Taylor. Jon’s collaborators on the project are bassist Ben Willis, saxophonist Tim Haldeman and multireedist Peter Formanek. Using flexible compositions with modular...

The mission of the Community Music School of Ann Arbor (CMSA2) is “to cultivate creativity, self-expression, and the joy of music for people of all ages and backgrounds through collaborative musical adventures.” Each year, the A2 JAZZ FEST has been happy to showcase...

Balance is a collaborative duo between saxophonist Marcus Elliot and pianist Michael Malis. Called “two of Detroit’s most important young jazz musicians” by the Detroit Free Press, Elliot and Malis’ “intuitive improvisations” stand on the threshold of composed and...

The Roe Bickley Kramer Trio is an exciting and creative group of jazz musicians – pianist Rick Roe, bassist Rob Bickley and drummer Jesse Kramer. The three were brought together in the spring of 2017 by a new, steady Monday night gig acquired by Jesse Kramer at the...

Five Brothers is a quintet formed during the Ann Arbor Public Schools Summer Jazz Camp (2018) directed by Sean Dobbins. The group consists of Jake Lee (piano), Austin Aldrich (bass), Matthew Dobbins (drums), Jibreel Johnson (trumpet) and Nathan Lee (tenor sax). The...

Community High Jazz Quintet features Jake Lee (trumpet), Tim Kohn (saxophones), Aris Chalin (piano), Jonah Eichner (bass) and Oliver Mayman (drums). Jake and Aris were in the CHS Jazz Combo that just won Best High School Combo in the June 2018 Downbeat International...

Janelle Reichman + 4 will be performing all Reichman's own compositions, written over the span of the last eight years. Reichman's music strikes a balance of old and new. In it, you can hear her love for both the "old-timey" sounds of the traditional, as well as the...