Festival News

Jam Cruise 10: Dates, Lineup Umphrey's, Hornsby, Galactic

Source: JamBase
May 4, 2011

10th SAILING WITH CLASSIC JAM LINEUP! Cloud 9 Adventures has announced the details of Jam Cruise 10, which will sail January 9-14, 2012 on board the MSC Poesia, heading to Labadee, Haiti & Falmouth, Jamaica. Jam Cruise 10 Lineup Umphrey's McGee; Galactic; Keller & the Keels; Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers; Toots & the Maytals; Soulive; Karl Denson's Tiny Universe; Railroad Earth; Ozomatli; the New Deal (official last show by the band!); Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue; EOTO; 7 Walkers ...

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Sunday Evening Jazz Cruise aboard Yacht Manhattan in New York Harbor

Source: Michael Ricci
May 3, 2011

Cruise New York City's famous harbor aboard the 1920's style yacht Manhattan while listening to live jazz music by the Classic Harbor Line Jazz Trio!

Sit back and enjoy the gorgeous view of the New York skyline and her quintessential lower Manhattan harbor sites. The band sets an extra festive, jazzy mood by playing selections from the Great American Songbook and pieces by NYC jazz legends such as Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker (just to name a few).

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The 2nd Valamar Jazz Festival in - Porec, Istria (Croatia)

Source: Michael Ricci
May 2, 2011

The 2nd Valamar Jazz Festival will be held at seven different locations in Poreč, July 6-9, 2011

The first evening of the main program will be held on July 7, 2011 in the Euphrasian Basilica, the most beautiful integrally preserved monument of early Byzantine architecture in the Mediterranean region. In the unique sacral setting of the basilica, the audience will have the opportunity to listen to one of the leading European jazz artists, Richard Galliano, and his Piazzola Forever Septet. ...

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Harlem Jazz Shrines Battle of Big Bands - George Gee vs Harlem Renaissance Orchestra

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
May 2, 2011

Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival Sponsored by Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile Presents Battle of the Big Bands & Swing Dance Competition George Gee Swing Orchestra and The Harlem Renaissance Orchestra Wednesday, May 11, 7:00 pm Alhambra Ballroom Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival Runs May 9-15 7 Days * 35 Events * 8 Venues The prestige of the past. The pulse of the present. In the heyday of the Harlem Renaissance, the most famous battles weren't fought ...

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Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Stellar 2011 Lineup, September 16-18

Source: Larry Taylor
May 1, 2011

The 54th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, Sept. 16 through 18, will include headliners Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Huey Lewis & The News and Poncho Sanchez & His Latin Jazz Band, starring Terence Blanchard, to name a few. A variety of other jazz and blues greats totaling 500, will perform on eight stages, during three days at the Monterey, California , Fairgrounds. Among them are James Farm featuring Joshua Redman, the John Pizzarelli Quartet, An Afternoon in Treme with Dumpstaphunk and ...

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Playboy Jazz Festival To Present Justo Almario's Afro-Colombian Ensemble And Israeli Pianist Tamir Hendelman's Trio, In Free Community Concert Sunday, May 1st, At Beverly Hills Civic Center

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April 28, 2011

Get ready for a little samba, a little sass, and a lot of jazz, when the acclaimed multi-talented master saxophonist and composer Justo Almario brings his distinctive fusion of jazz, South-American and world rhythms to Beverly Hills in a free concert on Sunday, May 1st. The show will also feature award-winning Israeli pianist Tamir Hendelman and his Trio. Presented by the Playboy Jazz Festival, the event will take place from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Beverly Hills Civic ...

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Art Spaces and Institutions Are Part of the Heart of Jazz Week from JazzBoston

Source: Chris Rich
April 28, 2011

Jazz Week begins at lunch hour in Downtown Boston with several free public performances by area music students including the Ecce Trio, led by Henrique Eisenmann (Brazilian jazz, Latin rhythms) holding court at the Prudential Center. South Garden, Fausto Sierkowski's Unit (Improvised music) manning Downtown Crossing and the Gypsy Jazz Duo (Gypsy jazz, folk, blue grass)enhancing South Station—Main Train Terminal, Summer Street and Atlantic Ave. The Boston area is home to an unusual concentration of music schools. And it has ...

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Mizzou New Music Summer Festival announces selection of eight resident composers for 2011

Source: Dean Minderman
April 27, 2011

Columbia, MO—The University of Missouri School of Music and the Mizzou New Music Initiative have selected eight resident composers for the 2011 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, which will be held Monday, July 11 through Saturday, July 16 in Columbia. They are:

Kari Besharse, Champaign IL David Biedenbender, Ann Arbor MI Patrick David Clark, Columbia MO Michael-Thomas Foumai, Honolulu HI Yotam Haber, New York NY Clint Needham, Columbus OH Steven Snowden, Austin TX Liza White, Berkeley CA

The 2011 Mizzou ...

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