Festival News

Jazz 88 Ocean Beach Jazz Festival Set for September 11, 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
March 2, 2010

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Playboy Jazz Fest Annual Event Bows June 12-13 at Hollywood Bowl

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2010

The star-studded Chick Corea Freedom Band, the return of George Benson and the Manhattan Transfer, Malian world music superstar Salif Keita, and a smooth jazz salute to the Stax Records legacy are among the highlights of the 32nd Playboy Jazz Festival, taking place June 12-13 at the Hollywood Bowl.

The announcement was made at the Playboy Mansion on Thursday by fest producer Darlene Chan, with perennial emcee Bill Cosby kibitzing alongside.

As always, the weekend event reflects the wild diversity ...

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New Orleans' Kidd Jordan Featured at 15th Other Minds Music Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
March 1, 2010

New Orleans saxophonist and jazz patriarch Kidd Jordan has been invited to perform at the 15th Other Minds Music Festival in San Francisco. Other Minds, in cooperation with the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Eugene and Elinor Friend Center for the Arts of the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, and the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, is bringing together some of the most innovative musical minds at work in the world today. Three days of public performances from ...

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Playboy and Jazz: A History

Source: Nina Gordon Public Relations
February 26, 2010

On a June weekend in 1979 in Los Angeles, Playboy presented a spectacular “one-shot" jazz festival at the venerable Hollywood Bowl. The artist line-up seemed like a “Who's Who" of the jazz world's greats: Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Joe Williams, Lionel Hampton, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Willie Bobo, Art Blakey, Ray Brown, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, Gerry Mulligan and many more. In his welcoming remarks to that one-of-a-kind gathering, PLAYBOY founder and then Chairman Hugh M. ...

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32nd Annual Playboy Jazz Festival Line-Up

Source: Nina Gordon Public Relations
February 26, 2010

2010 PLAYBOY JAZZ FESTIVAL (Presented in cooperation with the L.A. Philharmonic Association)

Saturday, June 12, 2010, 2:30 P.M.--11:00 P.M. Sunday, June 13, 2010, 2:00 P.M. -- 10:30 P.M.

Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, California

LINE-UP

Saturday, June 12, 2010, 2:30 P.M.-11:00 P.M. (Artist line-up, subject to change) under the direction of Tony White and J.B. Dyas Chick Corea Freedom Band with Roy Haynes, Christian McBride, Kenny Garrett ...

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2010 Playboy Jazz Festival Features New Artists and Jazz Icons

Source: Nina Gordon Public Relations
February 26, 2010

2010 PLAYBOY JAZZ FESTIVAL FEATURES NEW ARTISTS AND JAZZ ICONS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, JUNE 12TH & 13TH AT HOLLYWOOD BOWL

Headliners include Chick Corea, George Benson, The Manhattan Transfer and Los Van Van

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the world renowned Playboy Clubs where many jazz greats got their start. In keeping with that legacy, the 32nd annual Playboy Jazz Festival will present a world class lineup of talent featuring the highly anticipated debuts of emerging young artists, ...

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Chick Corea, George Benson to Headline Playboy Jazz Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
February 26, 2010

The Playboy Jazz Festival announced the lineup for its 32nd annual summer music party at the Hollywood Bowl, and fans of the festival's crowd-pleasing mix of mainstream jazz paired with diversions into pop and world music aren't likely to be disappointed. Scheduled for June 12 and 13, Saturday's show will be headlined by the Chick Corea Freedom Band. While the keyboardist isn't exactly a stranger around here with recent shows with the Five Peace Band, and Corea Clarke and White, ...

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Old Hand Tries New Approach to Jazz Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
February 25, 2010

The concert promoter George Wein, now 84, has been getting out to clubs lately. “More than 20 times in the past year," he said in an interview on Tuesday. In Brooklyn, which he reckons he hasn't visited more than two dozen times since 1960, he's been to Zebulon and Barbes and the tiny Puppets. He's been spending time at the Jazz Gallery, on Hudson Street in the South Village. And there he was last month during the crammed, chaotic Winter ...

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