On a warm evening in early May, close to 70 people packed into Madison’s North Street Cabaret to hear Feestet host its monthly jazz jam.
Held on the second Sunday of each month since early 2025, the Feestet jam has been free since the band secured a sponsorship in January, resulting in a spike in attendance and participation.
“A jazz jam is celebrating shared language,” says Helen Feest, Feestet’s leader and emcee. “These standards have been around since our grandparents were kids, but kids manage to find ways to reinvent them and play them as if they were their own.”…