Free events don’t get much better than the West Oak Lane Jazz & Arts Festival. Now in its sixth year, the festival is a three-day jazz extravaganza produced by the Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corp. (OARC) and presented by Brown’s Family ShopRite taking place on four stages along Ogontz Avenue.

Philadelphia has always been a city for jazz. Beginning in the 1930s with Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti through the 1940s with Dizzy Gillespie and John Coltrane and the 1970s jazz-soul-rock fusion of Grover Washington Jr., jazz has always had a …