JVC Festival Making Plans to Mine Jazz History

The lineup, announced yesterday by its producer, George Wein, and its sponsor, the JVC Company of America, ranges through jazz history, from concerts dedicated to Louis Armstrong to the Latin-jazz pioneer. Taking place June 24 to July 2.

Tribute concerts and returning regulars will be featured at the 1988 JVC Jazz Festival, which is to take place June 24 to July 2. The lineup, announced yesterday by its producer, George Wein, and its sponsor, the JVC Company of America, ranges through jazz history, from concerts dedicated to Louis Armstrong to the Latin-jazz pioneer Machito to contemporary jazz and blues.

Festival concerts in Manhattan will take place at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Town Hall and Kaufman Concert Hall at the 92d Street Y, as well as on a Musicruise boat circling Manhattan. The annual solo-piano series will take place at Weill Recital Hall.

This year's most unusual concerts will be tribute performances, most of them in honor of bandleaders and composers. ”For the Love of Louis,” June 24 at Carnegie Hall, will feature more than two dozen musicians in a benefit for the Louis Armstrong Project at Queens College. On June 26 at Carnegie Hall, Maurice Peress will conduct the American Composers Orchestra in four symphonic pieces by Duke Ellington, featuring Sir Roland Hanna as piano soloist; the concert is presented in association with the New York International Festival of the Arts. On June 27 at the 92d Street Y, a big band will play works by Charles Mingus in a double bill with a trio led by the young pianist Geri Allen. Gil Evans Group at the Y