The festival has hosted Swedish musicians such as Arne Domnérus, Monica Zetterlund, Nils Landgren, Peps Persson, and Lisa Ekdahl, in addition to Pepper Adams, Count Basie, B.B.
[1] For the festival of 2007, a national project called Jazzens år 2007 ("Year of Jazz 2007") was started.
[2][3][4] The festival is housed indoors since 2012 and in 2014 expanded to 10 full days with attendance exceeding 21,000.
In October 2016 acts from around the world included Kristin Amparo, Peter Asplund, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Tony Buck, Avishai Cohen, Fatoumata Diawara, Itamar Doari, Tia Fuller, Steve Gadd, Abdullah Ibrahim, Magnus Lindgren, Hailu Mergia, Roscoe Mitchell, Omri Moealso, Lina Nyberg, Cecilia Persson, Alfredo Rodriguez, and Archie Shepp.
[6] Past venues have included Glenn Miller Café, Stockholm Concert Hall, Fasching,[6] Skeppsholmen, Scandic Anglais, Kungsträdgården, Moderna Museet.