The 2009 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival is upon us! Running June 12-20 at multiple events in downtown Rochester, this is one of the city's premier cultural events of the year, and City Newspaper is all over it.

*For our full guide to the festival, including schedules, artist bios, interviews with headliners, and more, click here.

*For our daily Jazz Blogs, click here. Be sure to check in by 9 a.m. every morning of the festival to see what City's music writers thought of the performances from the night before. Feel free to chime in with your own take on what you heard.

*For City's exclusive video from Jazz Fest 2008, click on the Media Player to the right.