SAN DIEGO — After being largely sidelined in 2020 and too much of 2021, jazz rebounded this year in San Diego, across the nation and around the world — but with some modifications and pandemic-era setbacks and losses.
The Monterey Jazz Festival celebrated its 65th anniversary in September but was staged entirely outdoors, while its several indoor venues remained closed. Some other festivals proceeded with similar caution.
In January, bebop piano mainstay Barry Harris died from COVID-19 in New Jersey. He was 91. In October, acclaimed saxophonist Anthony Ortega — who had rebounded from a bout of COVID — died of complications from pneumonia in Encinitas. He was 94.
