Its traditional venue is the Tbilisi Concert Hall.
The first edition of the Tbilisi Jazz Festival was organized as "All-Soviet Jazz Festival" in 1978, when Georgia was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union.
[1] The festival recurred in 1986—reported by Billboard as an "outstanding success" and a boost to jazz in the Soviet Union[2]—and 1989.
Being dormant in post-Soviet Georgia for a decade, the festival was revived in 2000.
In the 2000s, the festival broadened its scope, including blues, soul, and rock artists, both Georgian and international.