Al­ready known for its good mu­sic, punc­tu­al start, and all-round great time, Jazz Artists on the Greens 2011 will seek to im­prove the ex­pe­ri­ence for all.From of­fer­ings of mu­si­cal in­stru­ments, artistes' CDs and fes­ti­val mem­o­ra­bil­ia for sale, as well as free give­aways and door prizes, bet­ter light­ing of the grounds to the va­ri­ety of avail­able food fare, this year the range of fes­ti­val-re­lat­ed im­prove­ments, con­ces­sions and para­pher­na­lia will be ex­pand­ed to of­fer to pa­trons a tru­ly en­hanced gas­tro­nom­i­cal and artis­tic ex­pe­ri­ence.Hav­ing moved to the Greens at WASA's Head Of­fice at Farm Road, St Joseph, pa­trons who have al­ways been en­cour­aged to dress com­fort­ably, will have more room to spread their blan­kets, mats and lounge chairs as they en­joy a world-class cast.

Ac­cord­ing to the event's pro­duc­ers, Pro­duc­tion One Ltd, "Jazz Artists on The Greens is a first step to­wards a lo­cal jazz fes­ti­val, sim­i­lar in pop­u­lar­i­ty and size to those held an­nu­al­ly in St Lu­cia and Bar­ba­dos, but al­ways re­main­ing true to the jazz." Al­though still not yet at the au­di­ence lev­el of those mega-vis­i­tor fes­ti­vals, the re­sults have been en­cour­ag­ing: the event has since grown from a small, con­cert in­to an an­nu­al "must-at­tend, so­cial oc­ca­sion" for a num­ber of reg­u­lar pa­trons, who at­tend the event which is not­ed for pro­vid­ing "good mu­sic and great com­pa­ny...in most pleas­ant sur­round­ings".This year's show con­tin­ues to build on the tra­di­tion de­vel­oped over the past nine years. Dur­ing that pe­ri­od Pro­duc­tion One Ltd has con­sci­en­tious­ly sought out and pre­sent­ed artistes, res­i­dent both in the Caribbean as well as through­out the di­as­po­ra, whose per­for­mances are root­ed in Caribbean-styled jazz and rhythms.

From in­cep­tion Jazz Artists on The Greens has paid trib­ute to the na­tion­al in­stru­ment, and some of the fea­tured pan­nists over the years have in­clud­ed Ray Hol­man, Ken "Pro­fes­sor" Philmore, Rudy "Two Left" Smith and Dane Gul­ston. This year will be no dif­fer­ent, and young hot shot pan vir­tu­oso Mikhail Sal­cedo will grace the stage.Start­ing in 2008 a Cuban act has now be­come a sta­ple at JAOTG, fol­low­ing on the heels of Jy­ros, fea­tur­ing Yamel Jor­va on pi­ano, world fa­mous Tama­ra Cas­tane­da on vi­bra­phone in 2009, and last year's vi­o­lin sen­sa­tion William Rob­le­jo, comes the Ernesto Ve­ga Trio fea­tur­ing Ernesto on clar­inet and sax.The oth­er artistes for 2011 in­clude pe­tite Ja­maican song­bird, Ni­quet Gold­son; Grena­di­an pi­anist/key­boardist Ed­die Bullen; and Bar­ba­di­an di­va Marisa Lind­say.