Festival News

Veteran Jazz Stars Shine at Newport Jazz Festival on August 5th

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
August 3, 2011

NEWPORT, RI—Real jazz is music for grown-ups, played by grown-ups. And, as the impressive array of artists assembled at the 2011 Newport Jazz Festival Presented by Natixis Global Asset Management aurally illustrates, with rare exceptions, most musicians arrive at their own sound when they hit their thirties and forties. So when you see them, it's not about “catching a rising star," it's more like witnessing an assemblage of distinct musical planets circumnavigating their own orbits, encompassing the tradition and their ...

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Four Generations of Jazz Pianists Perform at Newport Jazz Festival

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
August 3, 2011

NEWPORT, RI—No other instrument in jazz is as complex and comprehensive as the piano. By extension, the pianists who play it represent all of the vivid and varied complexities of the art form, from the percussive pianisms of Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, to the get down grooves of Horace Silver, and the harmonic hurricanes generated by McCoy Tyner. The 2011 edition of the Newport Jazz Festival® Presented by Natixis Global Asset Management, set for August 5th, features four generations ...

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The Oslo Jazz Festival 2011 Program is Complete

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2011

The Oslo Jazz Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, and having confirmed Humcrush/Sidsel Endresen, Fredrik Kronkvist Quartet and Desafindao, the anniversary program is complete. The festival is also proud to announce this year's Young Star and Showcase bands. Keyboardist Ståle Storløkken (Supersilent) and drummer Thomas Strønen (Food) are Humcrush. As a duo Storløkken and Strønen collaborate on a fascinating level, and their music both exists within and over the gap between analog and digital sound. Singer Sidsel Endresen is ...

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George Wein’s Foundation Already Set for Newport Festivals in 2012

Source: Michael Ricci
July 30, 2011

By Dan Kassell As impresario and swing jazz pianist, George Wein is best known for creating the first Newport Folk Festival (NFF) in 1954 and Newport Jazz Festival (NJF) in 1959, supported almost entirely by jazz fans Louis and Elaine Lorillard and, at that point in time, nonprofit entities.

In a telephone interview, just before this August Fort Adams Jazz Festival in Newport Rhode Island, George Wein spoke from his New York office about the future of the Newport Festivals ...

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Roxbury International Film Festival Runs in Boston July 28 Through July 31

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
July 28, 2011

The 13th annual Roxbury International Film Festival is taking place in Boston from Thursday, July 28 to Sunday, July 31, 2011 in various cultural venues around the city. Produced by The Color of Film Collaborative, RIFF was launched in 1999 to celebrate films written, produced and directed by filmmakers of color. The opening night film, The Athlete, directed by Dave Frankel and Rasselas Lakew, is being shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, on Thursday, July 28 at 8:00 p.m.. ...

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Jazz in the Valley - This Weekend

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
July 27, 2011

Jazz Port Townsend is not the only major jazz festival this weekend in Washington. The 14th annual Jazz In The Valley takes place July 29-31 in Ellensburg, a two hour drive east of Seattle on I-90.

This year' performers include Gail Pettis, Gary Hobbs Quartet, Lloyd Jones Struggle, John Gross Trio, Little Bill and the Bluenotes, McTuff, Sonando, The John Moawad's All Star Big Band and many more.

All the shows are located in downtown Ellensburg, with a main outdoor ...

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A Joyful Noise: Big Bands x 2 at Newport Jazz Festival

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
July 26, 2011

August 5-7, 2011 International Tennis Hall of Fame at Newport Casino Fort Adams State Park Newport, RI—From Duke Ellington's “rebirth" in 1956 and Count Basie's Sixteen Men Swinging, to Dizzy Gillespie's bebop sounds and the soulful strains of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, George Wein's Newport Jazz Festival has presented the full range of jazz's finest big bands for six decades. And, as we are locked and loaded into the21st Century, this year's festival, presented by ...

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Brass Masters Sound Off at Newport Jazz Festival

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
July 26, 2011

August 5-7, 2011 International Tennis Hall of Fame at Newport Casino Fort Adams State Park NEWPORT, RI—From its inception in the fifties, the Newport Jazz Festival has been the place to hear the full scope of the jazz trumpet tradition: from the promethean horn of Louis Armstrong and the re-birth of the cool Prince of Darkness Miles Davis, to the debut of the late20th Century Crescent City crown prince of classic jazz, Wynton Marsalis. And the ...

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