Festival News

Last Day to Buy Discounted Ballard Jazz Walk Tickets

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
November 20, 2009

Tomorrow night (Friday) jazz takes over the streets of downtown Ballard. Buy your tickets before midnight at the reduced cost of $20 (the price day-of is $25) BUY ONLINE: Visit the Ballard Jazz Walk website for tickets, complete schedule and artist biographies. There is no service charge for buying your ticket online. BUY IN PERSON: Visit the Ballard location of Sonic Boom Records to purchase a Jazz Walk ticket in person. There is an additional $1 ...

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CareFusion New York Jazz Festival Set for June 17-26, 2010

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
November 20, 2009

George Wein's New Festival Productions Produces 10-day Festival Including Partnerships with Some of New York's Most Unique and Culturally Significant Venues NEW YORK, NY -- After being without the annual jazz festival this past June for the first time in 37 years, jazz fans from around the world can celebrate the music at the CareFusion New York Jazz Festival June 17-26, 2010. George Wein, along with his New Festival Productions, LLC, again will produce a 10-day festival that will cover ...

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TD Canada Trust Renews Its Title Sponsorship of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
November 19, 2009

Coastal Jazz is pleased to announce that TD Canada Trust has renewed its title sponsorship of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival for four additional years through 2014. This agreement further extends TD Canada Trust's six year relationship with the festival and together they will continue to support festival education programs such as the TD Canada Trust High School Jazz Intensive, that provide aspiring music students opportunities to learn from some of the best musicians in the world. “We are very ...

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Jazz This Week: Christian McBride and Inside Straight, Nellie McKay, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Rockpile Poetry and Music Festival, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
November 19, 2009

We've got an interesting variety of jazz and creative music events in St. Louis over the next few days, starting with the eclectic singer, songwriter, pianist and multi-instrumentalist Nellie McKay, who's in town tonight and Thursday to perform at Kranzberg Arts Center for the Cabaret St. Louis series.Also tonight, bassist Christian McBride (pictured) and his new acoustic jazz group Inside Straight will begin a four-night engagement just around the corner at Jazz at the Bistro. For more on ...

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Hadley Caliman and Pete Christlieb: A Reunion 40 Years in the Making

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
November 18, 2009

It is 1962 in central Los Angeles and a young 17 year-old tenor saxophonist named Pete Christlieb has met his idol. Hadley Caliman is only thirty years-old but has already made a name for himself as one of the jazz stars on the rise. Christlieb follows Caliman to his gigs throughout Los Angeles and at the end of the night the youngster is invited up on stage to sit in on a few tunes. Hadley Caliman went on to perform ...

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Django Reinhardt New York Festival Celebrates Its 10th Year

Source: All About Jazz @ Spinner
November 13, 2009

By Tad Hendrickson

The impact of Sinti gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt is hard to overestimate. He is in the pantheon of early guitar greats with the likes of Robert Johnson, Charlie Christian and Eddie Lang -- and with only two fingers on his fret board hand. Such has been his impact that there is a codified genre of guitar-based swing jazz, which is a style in which guitar is the lead and rigorous rhythm instrument, with other stringed instruments often ...

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2009 Madrid International Jazz Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
November 6, 2009

Travellers staying in Madrid hotels next month will have the chance to soak up some culture at one of Europe's biggest musical events. Taking place from November 4th until November 28th, Madrid International Jazz Festival is now in its 26th year and the 2009 edition features a world-class line-up of talented performers. Some of those set to make an appearance this year include renowned saxophonist Joe Lovano, who will perform at the Teatro Fernan Gomez and American jazz singer Madeline ...

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Festival International de Jazz Barquisimeto 2009 - November 5-7 Schedule

Source: Michael Ricci
November 5, 2009

The celebration of the 4th edition of the Festival International de Jazz Barquisimeto 2009, comes in style, with planned activities of cine-jazz, master classes, auditions, lectures by experts in the field, jazz workshops for children, jam sessions, jazz concerts and galas involving over 120 musicians in 10 different scenarios, with artists from Brazil, USA, Colombia and Venezuela. It's an important cultural event that showcases Barquisimeto as Venezuela's jazz capital."

Performance Schedule November 5, 8:00 p.m

Carlos Rodriguez Y Su Jazztrata ...

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