Festival News

Moogfest Adds Big Boi, Jonsi, Caribou

Source: JamBase
July 27, 2010

NEW ASHEVILLE FEST ADDS THREE MORE ACTS

Big Boi The full lineup announcement for MoogFest 2010, a three-day festival celebrating the innovative vision of sonic pioneer Robert Moog to be held in Asheville, NC during Halloween weekend, October 29-31, has been postponed to August 10th, with tickets now going on sale three days later, Friday, August 13. But festival producers AC Entertainment have announced that Big Boi, Jonsi and Caribou are among the many acts joining Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, ...

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Space is the Place - Manchester Jazz Festival Day One

Source: The Ring Modulator by Adrian Stevenson
July 27, 2010

Ralph Alessi with the Jim Hart Trio, Festival Pavilion, Albert Square, Manchester. Nat Birchall Quartet. Friday 23rd July 2010.Marshall Allen & James Harrar's Cinema Soloriens and the Cosmo-Drama, Band on the Wall. Friday 23rd July 2010.So it was finally here, the launch of the fifteenth Manchester Jazz Festival. The proceedings started in a novel way with Supertramp saxophonist, John Helliwell officially launching the festival playing a melody of notes stuck to a stave by members of ...

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Medeski, Martin and Wood to Headline the Scranton Jazz Fest

Source: Michael Ricci
July 26, 2010

The trio of keyboard/organ/pianist John Medeski, drummer/percussionist Billy Martin, and bassist Chris Wood formed in a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, known as D.U.M.B.O. (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) in 1991. By 1995, Medeski Martin & Wood were touring the world, as their performance circuit spread out and around the entire United States, and into Europe and Japan. Their sound ranges from soulful organ-groove basics to a more expansive world of snappy beats and backbeats, eerie atmospheric effects, post-lounge ...

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Ybor Jazz Festival Set for Nov. 2-7 at the HCC Campus

Source: Between the Grooves with Philip Booth
July 26, 2010

Jazz festivals in Tampa have come and gone, and most--like the USF Jazz Festival and the Ybor Jazz Festa--have been short-lived, if often impressive.

Now here comes the first Ybor Jazz Festival, and its slogan and lineup make clear its musical intentions: “There's nothing smooth about it!"

Some of the area's finest jazz artists, including pianists Kenny Drew, Jr. and Richard Drexler (also a fine bassist, below right) are on the bill, along with front-rank singer Kevin Mahogany, with the ...

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New fans sustain Bix legacy: Musician’s global reputation puts Davenport on jazz music map

Source: AAJ Staff
July 25, 2010

Places exist on this planet where the term “Quad-Cities" means nothing, but the name “Bix" brings instant recognition. The name connotes jazz innovation, made even more memorable by what it did to an entire music genre. In his time, jazz musicians changed after hearing Bix Beiderbecke's melodic twists. “The best British, French and Danish jazz musicians went out of their way to study and cherish Beiderbecke's records. British dance orchestras, especially, took to Beiderbecke," writes Michael Steinman in his review ...

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Sunday Jazz Fest Will Be Biggest Ever

Source: Michael Ricci
July 24, 2010

Pulling in major talent from Maplewood, South Orange and West Orange, Jazz Fest is a growing draw for serious jazz connoisseurs. “This may be the largest gathering of such high-caliber local jazz musicians ever," said Marcy Thompson, co-organizer. “This year, everyone wanted to do the show--so we had to make it longer." The Maplewood Jazz Fest, which takes place Sunday, July 25th from 5:00pm to 9:00pm, will be presented in the outdoor amphitheater at Memorial Park (across from the train ...

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Brubeck, Corea and Other Jazz Pianists at Festivals

Source: AAJ Staff
July 24, 2010

OVER the past decade and a half, the Litchfield Jazz Festival in Kent and the Caramoor Jazz Festival in Katonah, N.Y., have reliably presented a selection of top players. But this year, taken together--both festivals are running from Aug. 6 to 8--they are offering more: a multigenerational history of jazz piano featuring the giants who made it. “It's a kind of continuum," said Dan Morgenstern, the historian and director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. Four months ...

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Pitchfork Music Festival | 07.16-18 | Chicago

Source: JamBase
July 24, 2010

By: Cal Roach | Images by: Chad Smith

Pitchfork Music Festival :: 07.16.10-07.18.10 :: Union Park :: Chicago, IL

After two years' absence, it felt good to be back at hipster central, dripping with sweat, watching Liars pummel away onstage amidst varying degrees of fashion sufferers. The feeling didn't last, though. All the subtle niceties I remembered from the first two years of the Pitchfork Music Festival seem to have gone by the wayside--big bottles of Water Plus for ...

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