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Sonoma Jazz + 2011
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Michael Ricci
The Sonoma Jazz + festival isn't all that jazzy. The majority of main-stage headliners during the festival's seven-year run have hailed from other genres, thus putting Sonoma in league with all the other events that utilize the term “jazz" to sell a type of experience—i.e., an upscale, sophisticated one—rather than a specific kind of music. What Sonoma Jazz + has done quite well during its history, however, is offer a really nice mix of music. And that was certainly true ...
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Ojai Music Festival Features Maria Schneider Orchestra
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Larry Taylor
Jazz star Maria Schneider, Grammy-winning composer and big band leader, makes her Ojai Music Festival debut at the 65th annual event with two concerts in Libbey Bowl, Sunday, June 12 at 11a.m and 5:30p.m. The annual Southern California festival, June 9 though 12, usually features classical composers and performers. This year, however, music director, Dawn Upshaw is bringing together a wide-range of programs and artistic collaborations over the course of the four days. On Sunday, 5:30, Schneider will offer the ...
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Jazz Fest After Dark | New Orleans | Review | Pics
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JamBase
By B.Getz Jazz Fest After Dark :: 05.04.11-05.08.11 :: New Orleans, LA Jump right to Casey's shots of ALO & Tea Leaf Green, The Funky Meters, Galactic, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe and The New Mastersounds by clicking on band's name! “It is rare to see crowd surfing at a Jazz Fest show, especially by a guy in a cream-colored suit wielding a trombone"—David Fricke Jazz Fest is truly an enigma, a gluttonous musical jamboree like no other, the stuff that ...
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Miles Davis Jazz Festival Set for Saturday, May 21
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The Alton Museum of History and Art will present the 2011 Miles Davis Jazz Festival from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. this Saturday, May 21 at Trimpe Hall on the campus of Lewis & Clark Community College in Godfrey, IL. Performers will include the Alton Landing Jazz Quintet, Jim Stevens Band, saxophonist Henry Miles' quintet from Springfield, IL, and Mondinband with special guest Big George Brock (pictured). Tickets are $25 each, or $180 for tables of eight, with all proceed ...
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Maryland Summer Jazz Returns for Seventh Sensational Season!
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The Phillips Agency
Now in its seventh year, the Maryland Summer Jazz Festival returns for another sensational season of workshops and jams for musicians and public concerts for jazz fans. From July 19 through 29, residents and tourists will have many rich opportunities to hear and learn about America's homegrown musical heritage at the Rockville campus and in historic jazz clubs in nearby Washington, DC. Drawing adult learners and listeners from coast to coast, the top rated event features first-tier professional musicians on ...
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Fourth Annual Bellevue Jazz Festival Starts June 1
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Seattle Jazz Scene
By Hugo Kugiya While not yet a time-honored tradition, the Bellevue Jazz Festival is starting to become a regular habit and a familiar scene each spring in downtown Bellevue, whose bars, restaurants, museums and hotels become stages for dozens of free concerts by celebrated, local musicians. Anchoring each day of the five-day festival will be a featured performance at the Theatre at Meydenbauer Center, an intimate concert hall next to Bellevue City Hall. The fourth annual festival starts the evening ...
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New Orleans Ladies of Jazz; Stephanie Jordan, Germaine Bazzle, Leah Chase at Bayou Boogaloo Festival
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Sylvain Music Notes
New Orleans Ladies of Jazz; Stephanie Jordan, Germaine Bazzle, and Leah Chase will perform together on stage on Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 3:45 p.m. during the 5th Annual “Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo," a community music festival held on the banks of Bayou Saint John in New Orleans. Backed by the Stephanie Jordan Big Band, this performance will provide music lovers an opportunity to enjoy some of New Orleans most renowned jazz divas in Bazzle, Chase, and Jordan performing traditional jazz ...
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The 2011 Copenhagen Jazz Festival, July 1-10, Announces: The Sound of Africa and 21st Century Jazz, plus Bobby McFerrin!!
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
The 2011 Copenhagen Jazz Festival, July 1-10, Announces: The Sound of Africa and 21st Century Jazz Copenhagen Jazz Festival and Koncerthuset present an exclusive solo concert with vocalist Bobby McFerrin at The Concert Hall on July 5! Several venues, including Jazzhus Montmartre, Tivoli and Prøvehallen, have already released their festival programs—the details can be found in our festival calendar—and with top names like Keith Jarrett, Sonny Rollins, Mike Stern, Dave Douglas and Lyle Lovett confirmed and exciting names released from ...
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