Rochester is blessed with a number of things that serve as a foundation for the fact that you can go out and hear great live jazz throughout the year, not just at the XRIJF, including a very large number of talented musicians who call the Rochester area home, the Eastman School of Music jazz program (and the music programs of the other Rochester area universities and colleges), and some wonderful high school jazz music programs. The festival includes a sample of each and almost all of them are free shows. 

Because Jazz@Rochester focuses on our local live jazz the year round, I wanted to gather them all in one place. Almost every day there is live jazz in more than one venue in and around Rochester.  These are the people that make that happen:

• June 19th 
• 3:45 pm: Buckman Heights Elementary School (Jazz Street Stage)
• 4:30 pm: Arcadia High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 5:15 pm: Hilton High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 5:45 & 7:45 pm: Bill Dobbins Plays Strayhorn (Hatch Recital Hall)
• 6:00 pm: ECMS Jazz Combo with Bob Sneider and Paul Hofmann (Jazz Street Stage)
• 6:00 pm: Prime Time Brass (Big Tent)
• 7:00 pm: Spectra (East Ave. & Chestnut St. Stage)
• June 20th
• 3:45 pm: Gates-Chili High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 4:30 pm: Brighton High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 5:15 pm: Newark High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 6:00 pm: ECMS Jazz Combos with Mike Kaupa (Jazz Street Stage)
• 6:00 pm: 78 RPM Big Band (Big Tent)
• 7:00 & 9:15 pm: Chet Catallo & the Cats (Little Theatre)
• June 21st
• 3:45 pm: MCC Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 4:30 pm: Penfield High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 5:15 pm: Spencerport High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 6:00 pm Penfield Rotary Big Band (Big Tent)
• 6:00 pm: ESM Honors Collegiate Small Group (Jazz Street Stage)
• 7:00 & 9:00 pm Hard Logic (RG&E-LiDestri Spirit Stage)
• June 22nd
• 12:00 pm: Jazz Starts at the Library with Mike Kaupa (Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County)
• 1:00 pm: Jazz Workshop for Young Music Students (Eastman School of Music,  Ray Wright Room (Room 120))
• 4:30 pm: W. Irondequoit High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 5:15 pm: Fairport High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 6:00 pm: Jack Allen Big Band (Big Tent)
• 6:00 pm: ESM Honors Collegiate Small Group (Jazz Street Stage) (also will be the CD Release for guitarist Gabe Condon)
• 7:00 pm: Significant Other (RG&E-LiDestri Spirit Stage)
• June 23rd
• 12:00 pm: Jazz Starts at the Library with Danny Ziemann (Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County)
• 1:00 pm: Jazz Workshop for Young Music Students (Eastman School of Music, Ray Wright Room (Room 120))
• 4:30 pm: Athena High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 5:15 pm: Eastridge High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 6:00 & 10:00 pm: Gap Mangione (The Rochester Club)
• 6:00 pm: New Horizons Big Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 6:00 pm: Carl Atkins & New Energy Big Band (Big Tent)
• 7:00 pm: Jimmie Highsmith (RG&E-LiDestri Spirit Stage)
• 7:30 pm: Eastman Youth Jazz Orchestra (Jazz Street Stage)
• 8:30 pm: New Horizons Vintage Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 8:30 & 10:00 pm: Dirk Quinn Band Rochester (Big Tent)
• 9:30 pm: Music Educators Big Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• June 24th
• 12:00 pm: Jazz Starts at the Library with Paradigm Shift–Mel Henderson (Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County)
• 1:00 pm: Jazz Workshop for Young Music Students (Eastman School of Music,  Ray Wright Room (Room 120))
• 4:30 pm: Canandaigua High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 5:15 pm: Honeoye Falls-Lima High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 6:00 pm: ESM-XRIJF Scholarships Alumni (Jazz Street Stage)
• 6:00 pm: Brockport Community Big Band (Big Tent)
• 7:00 pm: Roses & Revolutions (RG&E-LiDestri Spirit Stage)
• June 25th
• 12:00 pm: Jazz Starts at the Library with Doug Stone (Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County)
• 1:00 pm: Jazz Workshop for Young Music Students (Eastman School of Music,  Ray Wright Room (Room 120))
• 4:30 pm: Brockport High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 5:15 pm: Sutherland High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 5:45 & 7:45 pm: Harold Danko (Hatch Recital Hall)
• 6:00 pm: Greater Rochester Jazz Orchestra (Big Tent)
• 6:00 pm: ECMS Saxology 1 & 2 Directed by Doug Stone (Jazz Street Stage)
• 7:00 pm: Teagan & the Tweeds (RG&E-LiDestri Spirit Stage)
• June 26th
• 12:00 pm: Jazz Starts at the Library with Mike Melito (Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County)
• 1:00 pm: Jazz Workshop for Young Music Students (Eastman School of Music,  Ray Wright Room (Room 120))
• 4:30 pm: Harley High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 5:15 pm: Greece Olympia High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 6:00 pm: Greece Jazz Band (Big Tent)
• 6:00 pm: ECMS Latin Jazz & JR Jazz (Jazz Street Stage)
• 7:00 pm: Robin McKelle & the Flytones *East Ave. & Chestnut St. Stage)
• 8:30 pm: Freshly Ground (Big Tent)
• 27-Jun
• 3:00 pm: Bill Tiberio Band (East Ave. & Chestnut St. Stage)
• 4:30 pm: Webster Schroeder High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 5:15 pm: School of the Arts High School Jazz Band (Jazz Street Stage)
• 6:00 pm: Rochester Metro Jazz Orchestra (Big Tent)
• 6:00 pm: ESM Honors Collegiate Small Group (Jazz Street Stage)
• 7:00 & 9:15 pm: Carl Atkins & Culture Clash (Little Theatre)
• 7:45 & 9:45 pm: Bobby Henrie & the Goners (Squeezers Roots & Americana Stage at the Sibley Building)

In addition, there are shows with local music going on in venues within the "footprint" of XRIJF. So far, I've dug out the following, some of jazz, some not (links are to their calendars or other source so you can check out for yourself, tell me if you know of others):

• Bernunzio's Uptown Music (calendar of jazz and other music)
• Flour City Station (calendar of jazz and other music)
• Inn on Broadway (they have a tent, too)
• Victoire (trumpeter Oliver Haynes & friends throughout, plus WGMC's Derrick Lucas will be spinning Monk records live, Saturday 1-4)