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Best Jazz Cities

By Michael Ricci
January 6, 2021
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We conducted three polls in 2020 with the goal of identifying the top jazz record labels, the top jazz cities, as well as who our readers would book at their "fantasy" jazz festival. Of the near 300 cities represented at Jazz Near You, the following received the most votes:

1
New York, NY
2
Chicago, IL
3
New Orleans, LA
4
Paris, France
5
London, United Kingdom
6
Los Angeles, CA
7
San Francisco, CA
8
Berlin, Germany
9
Amsterdam, Netherlands
10
Philadelphia, PA
11
Tokyo, Japan
12
Boston, MA
13
Kansas City, MO
14
Ghent, Belgium
15
Seattle, WA
16
Detroit, MI
17
Montreal, Canada
18
Copenhagen, Denmark
19
Washington, DC
20
Oakland, CA
21
Pittsburgh, PA
22
Moscow, Russian Federation
23
Baltimore, MD
24
Munich, Germany
25
Minneapolis, MN
26
Barcelona, Spain
27
Lisbon, Portugal
28
Austin, TX
30
Cleveland, OH
31
Truro, United Kingdom
32
Stockholm, Sweden
33
Miami, FL
34
Portland, OR
35
Cologne, Germany
36
Madrid, Spain
37
Warsaw, Poland
38
Vancouver, Canada
39
Oslo, Norway
40
San Diego, CA
41
Vienna, Austria
42
St. Louis, MO
43
Melbourne, Australia
44
Krakow, Poland
45
Rotterdam, Netherlands
46
Nashville, TN
47
Helsinki, Finland
48
Rome, Italy
49
Toronto, Canada
50
Denver, CO

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