DETROIT - NPR's weekly radio series JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater will broadcast a performance of jazz trumpeter Charles Tolliver at the 2007 Detroit International Jazz Festival. The performance, featuring the Tolliver Big Band, airs the week beginning February 21.

Tolliver, a former sideman of jazz heavyweights Horace Silver, Max Roach and Andrew Hill, appeared at Detroit Jazz Fest on the heels of his first release as a leader on a major U.S. label. The recording, With Love (Blue Note), marked a return to the big band format that produced Tolliver's critically acclaimed Strata-East recordings of the 70s and earned the trumpeter a Grammy nomination.

If you missed the Detroit Jazz Fest last year, the program offers a glimpse of why many are calling it one of the most memorable in the festival's long and distinguished history. And if you were there, it's a chance to re-live some of the magic.

Visit jazzset.npr.org for stations and broadcast times in your area, or to listen on-demand.

For more information about Detroit Jazz Fest, visit our website at www.detroitjazzfest.com. And be sure to stay tuned for exciting announcements about the 2008 festival.

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