MISSION VALLEY — With a new name and a traditional sound, the San Diego Jazz Festival is seeing some fresh faces this weekend.
“Someone said, ‘It’s so nice to see a young lady here enjoying jazz,’” festival attendant Alethea Navarro said Friday night.
Navarro is 43. That’s decades younger than some of the regulars who have attended the annual festival each Thanksgiving weekend at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center.
“Today’s music has no soul,” said Navarro, who prefers pre-1950s jazz over contemporary chart-topping pop. She came to perform with other members of the swing dance club Hang 10 Hoppers.
Now in its 34th year, the festival is organized by America’s Finest City Dixieland Jazz Society, and until this year it had been known as the San Diego Thanksgiving Dixieland Jazz Festival.
Society secretary Myrna Goodwin said the re-branding recognizes the broader offerings of the festival, which now has bands that play swing, rockabilly and traditional jazz.
Swing and rockabilly already have had their own revival with younger people who like the styles and dancing of the 1940s and ‘50s, and Goodwin said fans who show up for that music may like what they hear on other stages.
“Swing may be the window to a revival for traditional jazz,” she said.
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