Highlights include the Balcones Heights Jazz Festival, America in concert and the finale of the Cactus Pear Music Festival.

FOLLOWING the success of last year's event, a smooth jazz festival will be returning to Christchurch. Stompin’ on The Quomps will return to Christchurch Quay on August 2.

When the conversation turns to the giants of the tenor saxophone, Hank Mobley’s name doesn’t always come up first — but it ...