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States that the Jazz Festival in New York has emerged as the lollapalooza of the lot, threatening to overtake JVC Jazz Festival. When the fest will be running from; Knitting Factory's identification with New York's downtown scene; What the festival will include; Identity of owner of the factory, Michael Dorf; Dorf's likes and dislikes; Location of Knitting Factory; Dorf's reservation of his greatest enthusiasm for the Internet.

The article reports on the seventh annual Django Reinhardt New York Festival. The event features a host of American talent including reedist Joel Frahm and James Carter, as well as European stalwarts like Parisian Ludovic Beier and Strausberg's Schmitt family. Recent music releases from Europe sugegst that the love for the music of Reinhardt shows no abatement.

Focuses on a jazz department established by the Lincoln Center in New York. Significance of acknowledgment of the cultural importance of jazz by a performing arts center; Goal for the first San Francisco Jazz Festival and Jazz Masters Series.