Festival News

Berks Jazz Fest Plays a Score: 2010 Edition Celebrates the Event's 20th Anniversary

Source: Michael Ricci
November 30, 2009

Berks Jazz Fest celebrates 20 years in 2010 The VF Outlet Berks Jazz Fest, presented by Berks Arts Council, will celebrate its 20th anniversary March 18 through March 28, with artists who appeared during the first festival in 1980, as well as audience favorites from the past two decades. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday for the event, which will feature trumpet legend Wynton Marsalis with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on March 21 at the ...

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Buenos Aires Jazz09 International Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
November 29, 2009

Buenos Aires Jazz 2009 affords a unique opportunity to watch and listen the best of local and international jazz at various venues of the city. From Thursday 3 to Tuesday 8 December, the city oozes jazz.

In its second edition, the Festival remains firm in its determination to provide a programme featuring only international artists who have never before performed in the City and local musicians, both the well-established and those who are taking their first steps.

As has become ...

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Opening Gala of the Festival Jojazz 2009 La Habana

Source: Michael Ricci
November 27, 2009

The persistent rain in the night of Havana did not stop the Cubas jazz lovers of assisting to the Opening Gala of the International Competition of Young Jazz musicians, “Jojazz 2009" at the Mella Theatre of this city. With a prolonged applause and numerous standing ovations began formally the XII issue of this jazz festival 2009 with a full house.

The opening words were made by the vice president of the Cuban Institute of Music, who recalled the beginnings of ...

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Jam Cruise Portrait Series

Source: JamBase
November 27, 2009

All Photos and Intro by: Michael Weintrob

Three years ago I wanted to do a portrait project on Jam Cruise. I came on board with my camera gear, a backdrop, and a lighting rig. By the end of the cruise I had taken studio portraits of most of the artists that performed. The images came out really well, but they could have been taken anywhere. For the following couple years on the boat I wanted to tell the story of ...

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Berlin and All That Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
November 24, 2009

Jazz Fest Berlin Brings the Funk BERLIN JAZZ: Like most cities, yet unlike any other city, Berlin bubbles along, continuing on its ambitious and evolutionary path. It oscillates between the old east and west and historic and contemporary aspects. Then, suddenly the city is in prime time and in the world news cycle's sights again with last week's celebration of the 20th anniversary of the “fall of the Wall." On the night before the official November 9 anniversary, I was ...

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The Jazz Academy of Music (501c3) Proudly Announces the 2010 Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival - February 19-21, 2010 - Rockville, MD

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
November 24, 2009

In addition to a cadre of the finest local/regional talent, artists scheduled to appear include Mulgrew Miller, Bobby Watson, Lewis Nash, Terell Stafford & Marc Cary The Jazz Academy of Music (501c3) is proud to announce the first annual Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival (MAJF), to take place at The Hilton Washington DC/Rockville Hotel & Executive Meeting Center. Produced by saxophonist/educator Paul Carr, Executive Director of The Jazz Academy of Music, the MAJF will reignite the Festival in the flavor, style and ...

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Telluride Jazz Celebration in Colorado's Majestic San Juan Mountains Returns to Traditional Summer Dates for 34th Edition (August 6-8, 2010)

Source: MFA - Mitchell Feldman Associates
November 22, 2009

Dates for the 34th Annual Telluride Jazz Celebration (TJC), scheduled for August 6-8, 2010, were announced today by festival director Paul Machado and mark a return to the event's traditional summer time slot after taking place for the past two years in early June. “We're in the final stages of finalizing the 2010 line-up which will feature a full slate of Friday events in addition to music all day Saturday and Sunday and reinforce our long- standing commitment to nurturing ...

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Local Musicians Organize Second Brasil Jazz Festa

Source: Michael Ricci
November 22, 2009

By JIM TRAGESER, North County Times San Diego, CA Allison Adams Tucker, left, sings during the 2008 Brasil Jazz Festa at the Encinitas Library. It was a shared love of Brazilian music--particularly Brazilian jazz--that led a group of local musicians to pull together last fall's initial Brasil Jazz Festa. Reaction was so positive that they've decided to make it an annual event, with the second iteration Nov. 22 at Encinitas Library.

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