Festival News

Chicago Jazz Fest After Party - Underground Fest

Source: Kevin Johnson
August 31, 2010

September 3-5, 2010, 10:30 pm Toyota Creative Lounge 1564 N. Damen Ave Chicago, IL Friday, September 3 Kahil El' Zabar's Experimental Band featuring Edwin Daugherty (alto sax), Dudley Owens (tenor sax), Robert Griffin (trumpet), Norman Palm (trombone), Isaiah Spencer (drums), Xavier Breaker (drums), Justin Dillard (piano), Jeff Harris (bass) Saturday September 4 Dwight Trible w Kahil El' Zabar Quartet featuring Justin Dillard (piano), Sharay Reed (bass), Dudley Owens (tenor sax) Sunday September 5 Corey Wilkes' Abstract ...

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Mile High Music Fest 2010 | Recap | Photos

Source: JamBase
August 31, 2010

Words & Images by: Mike Hardaker | Additional Images by: Soren McCarty

Mile High Music Festival :: 08.14.10-08.15.10 :: The Field at Dick's Sporting Goods Park :: Commerce City, CO

Day 1

Thousands of music lovers once again joined together for a 2-day music festival on the soccer grounds of Dicks Sporting Good Complex to celebrate the 2010 Mile High Music Festival. The first day featured headliner Jack Johnson, along with the Steve Miller Band, Slightly Stoopid, Phoenix, Nas with ...

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McCoy Tyner Honors Charlie Parker at Marcus Garvey Park

Source: AAJ Staff
August 30, 2010

The permanent amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem is a void right now. It's being rebuilt, band shell and seating. So the Harlem part of the two-day Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, on Saturday afternoon, was moved to a rented stage on a lawn at the northeast corner of the park, next to the farmer's market, which was still open when the first band started. Later on, a boisterous African drum circle took shape not 100 feet from the stage ...

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Simply Red, George Benson, Natalie Cole Headline 1st Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival, Sept 3-4.

Source: JamaicaMusic Offbeat
August 29, 2010

The North Sea Jazz Festival, the world's largest indoor jazz festival, has for 35 years brought the biggest, broadest range of artists to the Netherlands. But, on the 3rd & 4th of September 2010 the festival's ripples fan out to the Caribbean to inaugurate the Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival on the hospitable and vibrant Dutch island. In settings traditional to its progenitor, the Curacao debut is set in major indoor and outdoor venues with a bill of over 35 ...

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Bologna Jazz Festival - The Italian Autumn Jazz Event

Source: Rugiada Cogotti
August 29, 2010

Bologna has been loving jazz since 1958. All the greatest musicians played at its Jazz Festival, the most ancient one in Italy: Chet Baker, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Keith Jarrett, Miles Davis... After a few occasional editions, the Bologna Jazz Festival (previously Festival Internazionale del Jazz) was born again for good in 2006, keeping the same love for jazz and the same attention to the international jazz scene it used to have. Bologna Jazz Festival takes place each ...

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Jeker Jazz Maastricht is back in town!

Source: Gina Vodegel Writing Affairs
August 26, 2010

Jeker Jazz is the brainchild of Giel Coenen who started programming jazz, blues, funk and related music in pubs and cafes around one of the most attractive inner city neighborhoods of Maastricht, the Jeker Quarter (Jekerkwartier). This was twenty years ago. It turned out to be a successful concept with a variety of music and free admission to the concerts in the pubs, cafes and small diners. In 2003, Jeker Jazz integrated with the organization Jazz Maastricht and its name ...

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Dianne Reeves to Perform at 2010 Shanghai Jazz Festival

Source: AAJ Staff
August 26, 2010

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It's Tanglewood Time - In Jazz Time

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
August 25, 2010

Every summer during my festival wanderings, I get one or more similar pitches. “You really need to go to X." or “You need to come here... It's a huge jazz event—and it's free!" Only problem, it's many hundreds of miles away, it is indeed a HUGE event, and at this point of my summer festival season, I'm ready to wind down with something a bit laid back and bucolic—but no less musical. The festivals in question also happen to take ...

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