This account of 'Australia's greatest jazz event', the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz, outlines its history and discusses the reasons for its establishment in 1990 in the Victorian rural city of Wangaratta. Describes the Festival's progress year by year, and community feeling about the Festivals and comments on the Festivals as artistic, social and cultural events. The author is a jazz critic who has written for 'Music Maker', 'Hi Fi & Music' and 'The Sydney Morning Herald'. His other publications include 'Bodgie Dada & the Cult of Cool' and 'Low Rent'.