San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival

SDTJ Jazz responds to political and trade frictions between the US and Mexico with programming that highlights the cooperative cultural expression arising from the inextricably entwined region. “I think that being on the border is probably the most interesting thing about San Diego,” Daniel Atkinson, SDTJ Jazz founder and executive director, told Downbeat magazine. “That positions us in a very different way even from a place like Los Angeles.” Bouncing back and forth across the border each day, SDTJ Jazz opens Thursday, Oct. 1 in downtown San Diego at Quartyard with a three-band “Jazz Party.”…