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Beantown to get jazzy with seventh annual festival

By Lily Sussman

Berklee College of Music is bringing jazz to Beantown.

The seventh annual BeanTown Jazz Festival, produced by Berklee College of Music and co-presented by Sovereign Bank and Target, will feature more than 30 acts at venues throughout the city today through Saturday.

“The college crowd will really like Saturday because it’s free,” said Allen Bush, media relations representative for the festival. “Even if you don’t really follow jazz, you might find something you like. It’s a great way to introduce people [to jazz].”

Bush said Boston has a history of jazz dating back to the 1940s and 1960s, when caf

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