An annual event is coming to an end Thursday.
The Arizona Classic Jazz Society is hosting the 2024 Arizona Classic Jazz Society/Festival Thursday through Sunday at the Crowne Plaza Phoenix Chandler Golf Resort in Downtown Chandler. According to a post on the organization’s website, it’s the last time it will be held.
There is a song entitled All Good Things (Come to an End). ACJS wrote on its site. “It is not a happy tune. I have to tell you now that the Arizona Classic Jazz Society/Festival will no longer exist after the end of this year, 2024.”
The statement says the change has to do more with changing times and tastes than in any problems planning and holding the festival.
“We have experienced that music tastes change with the times and everything cycles,” the statement says. “The evaluation comments from the 2023 festival suggested we offer more country music, However, that would defeat our original purpose of promoting and perpetuating classic jazz.”
The author wrote that state fine arts funding cuts aren’t helping.