Festival News

Major Music Programming at 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival Includes Special Performance by Pianist Vijay Iyer

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
August 10, 2010

The 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival will feature its first large-scale music programming this year with three major musical presentations. Jazz composer and pianist Vijay Iyer whose acclaimed album Historicity topped 2009 critics' lists, will offer a special performance at Eastern State Penitentiary on Saturday, September 11 where he will play within the art installation Release, for which Iyer composed the music.

Other music acts include the artistically inclusive 12-hour Bang on a Can Marathon: Philadelphia which will showcase a ...

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Review Newport Jazz Festival

Source: AAJ Staff
August 10, 2010

Newport Jazz Festival: A study in contrasts

NEWPORT, R.I.—The eclectic mix of styles that is the hallmark of the Newport Jazz Festival couldn't have been displayed any better than it was mid-afternoon yesterday. As trumpeter Wynton Marsalis took his quintet through an hour of buttoned-down, straight-ahead jazz on the main stage, saxophonist Ken Vandermark's thrash-jazz outfit Powerhouse Sound unfurled its fury on one of the two side stages.

Anat Cohen has a blast. Cohen, who is ...

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Newport En 'La Vanguardia'

Source: Voll-Damm Festival Internacional De Jazz De Barcelona
August 10, 2010

La Vanguardia publica en su edición de hoy un amplio reportaje sobre el CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival. Este legendario certamen, fundado en 1954, está todavía hoy en manos del empresario pionero George Wein, padrino del Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona, que inauguró el pasado 17 de mayo con un concierto en el Gran Hotel Havana de Barcelona en el que se presentó el George Wein Barcelona Trio (Wein al piano, Horacio Fumero al contrabajo y Jordi Rossy a ...

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup

Source: JamBase
August 10, 2010

MORE ARTISTS AND DAILY SCHEDULE TO BE ANNOUNCED

Elvis Costello The lineup for the 10th anniversary of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival has been unveiled. Check out some of the artists below, and click here for the full lineup of this free three-day festival. More artists and a daily schedule will be announced soon.

Elvis Costello & the Sugarcanes Patti Smith Joan Baez Steve Earle Umphrey's McGee Sharon Jones and ...

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Newport, Saturday 7th

Source: Voll-Damm Festival Internacional De Jazz De Barcelona
August 9, 2010

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Saxologies, from Newport to Barcelona (Impromptu Portraits)

Source: Voll-Damm Festival Internacional De Jazz De Barcelona
August 9, 2010

Steve Wilson, Kenny Garrett, Donny McCaslin and JD Allen in Newport 2010.Schedule at the 42nd Barcelona Voll-DammJazz Festival:November 10th, Luz de Gas. Steve Wilson-Bruce Barth Duo (double bill with Lee Konitz-Dan Tepfer).November 11th, Auditori (Sala Oriol Martorell). Kenny Garrett Quartet.November 12th, Luz de Gas. Donny McCaslin Quartet (Uri Caine, Scott Colley, Antonio Sánchez).November 20th, Luz de Gas. JD Allen Trio (double bill with Perico ...

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Uncanny Reveries - Manchester Jazz Festival Day Eight

Source: The Ring Modulator by Adrian Stevenson
August 9, 2010

The Golden Age of Steam and TrioVD, Pavilion. Les Chisnall, St Anns Church. Orca Trio, Pavilion. Friday, 30th July 2010.I made it in the nick of time to take my pew for Les Chisnall's solo piano recital at St Anns Church. I'm no stranger to Chisnall' playing, but this was the first time I've had the opportunity to see him solo. This was really wonderful stuff and undoubtably a highlight of the festival for me. Chisnall walks the ...

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53rd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Presented By Verizon Coming in September!

Source: Michael Ricci
August 8, 2010

500 Legendary Jazz Icons, Classic Collaborations and Multi-Cultural and International Artists on 8 Stages for 3 Days of Nonstop Entertainment, September 17㬏, 2010 Headliners on the Arena/Lyons Stage Include Dianne Reeves, Freedom Band with Chick Corea, Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride and Roy Haynes; Ahmad Jamal, Harry Connick, Jr., Angelique Kidjo, Les Nubians, Roy Hargrove Big Band, Billy Childs with the Kronos Quartet, Septeto Nacional Ignacio Pieiro de Cuba, Delbert McClinton, Trombone Shorty, Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens MJF Debut ...

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