In 2000 the Rimini Dixieland Jazz Band organized a traditional jazz-concert at the end of the summer-season: this event is considered the establishment of the International Traditional and Swing Jazz Festival, the event that takes  place every year in Rimini.

Many of the finest bands and musicians have taken part at this festival.
The big stage, placed in the square dedicated at Federico Fellini, will house the ninth edition of the Rimini Jazz International Festival.

Rimini Jazz 2009 will take place from the 23rd to the 27th of June, with big names of the traditional Jazz and Swing as actors coming from Italy, USA and the Netherlands.
Big sized orchestras, small Jazz combos, All-Star line-ups and Marching Band in the true tradition of New Orleans, ready to start the coming summer season events of the Romagna shore.