High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Hampton Jazz Festival is a major musical event started in 1968, and features many of the world`s major jazz artists. It is held during the last full weekend in June each year, with the primary venue being Hampton, Virginia`s Hampton Coliseum. Festival organizers describe it as "the best available available jazz, R&B and blues artists that are on tour during the time of the festival... packaged at a reasonable price."