Detroit’s troubled Labor Day jazz festival is morphing. “The new festival, which would begin in 2005, will keep jazz at its core but also showcase Detroit’s Motown legacy and the city’s unique contributions to blues, rock, R&B, gospel and techno. The result, according to artistic director Frank Malfitano, will be Detroit’s answer to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and the Montreal Jazz Festival – North America’s biggest and most successful annual music festivals, both of which attract tourists from all over the world.”