Festival News

Sunset Strip Music Festival Set Times Announced

Source: All About Jazz
September 10, 2009

​The Sunset Strip Music Festival occurs this Saturday at Sunset and Doheny in West Hollywood. They're closing down Sunset, will plant a stage at each end, and will open a few clubs for bands all day and night.

Below is the schedule:

East Stage 2:05 p.m.: Fishbone 3: Unwritten Law 4: Kottonmouth Kings 5: Shiny Toy Guns 6:10: Shwayze 7:15: LMFAO

West Stage 3:30 p.m.: The ...

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Barcelona Jazz Festival 2009 First Concerts Announced

Source: Michael Ricci
September 8, 2009

The 41st Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival announces several concerts from October 18th to December 6th, 2009 Confirmed Performances: Wayne Shorter Quartet, October 28th. Auditori.

Joe Lovano Nonet, November 3rd. Luz de Gas.

Concha Buika & Chucho Valdes Quartet, November 5th. Palau de la Musica.

Bela Fleck & The Fleckstones, November 5th. Auditori (Sala Oriol Martorell).

Omar Sosa Sextet featuring Jerry Gonzalez, “The Afrocuban Side of Kind of Blue," November 6th. Auditori (Sala Oriol Martorell).

Jimmy Cobb's So What Band, ...

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Bells, Bells, Bells

Source: All About Jazz
September 7, 2009

Bell ringers converged at Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan for the annual meeting of the North American Guild of Change Ringers.

The church is promoting a mini-festival of classes, ringing performances and private lessons. The meeting is a sign of Trinity's rapid arrival as a beacon of bell towers.

Three years ago it installed a set of 12 bells, making it the only church in the nation with that many. Gregory F. Russell is Trinity's new ringing master and steeple ...

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Jazz Travelers

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
September 6, 2009

To what lengths will fans go to hear great jazz?Depending on where you live, sometimes it's right around the corner or across town. Sometimes you drive for hours as part of a vacation trip, or fly many miles.This holiday weekend brings out all of those facets, as jazz festival goers are out in force in Chicago, Detroit and several other cities, and right here in western Massachusetts' Berkshires at Tanglewood. Wherever you are, be sure to ...

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At This Jazz Festival, a Surprise: Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
September 5, 2009

The town of West Orange is a highly logical place to stage a jazz festival. Besides having a lakeside amphitheater — the Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center--it is home to a small but powerful army of jazz musicians, including the guitarists Dave Stryker and Vic Juris and the drummer Cecil Brooks III. But the OSPAC Jazz Festival, to be held Sept. 12 and 13 this year, its seventh, attracts many of its star performers with more than just the promise ...

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Jazz at Bumbershoot

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
September 5, 2009

Bumbershoot is primarily a pop-music festival, and the jazz programming this weekend reflects those priorities with groups like the Olympic Sound Collective and The New Mastersounds — bands that incorporate jazz elements into danceable songs that contain bluesy riff and funky grooves. Seattle saxophonists Mark Taylor and Steve Griggs and their groups are the only straight-ahead groups performing this year at Bumbershoot. The jazz acts will be split between two venues, the Northwest Court Stage, where in past Bumbershoot festivals ...

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Zbigniew Seifert in Memoriam

Source: All About Jazz
September 3, 2009

Cracow Souls Day there will be series of concerts and meetings remembering genius of jazz violinist Zbigniew Seifert (1946 - 1979) called ZBIGNIEW SEIFERT IN MEMORIAM.

Nevertheless his strong and undisputed artistic place in jazz music history, he is still less known for a broad public. Zbigniew Seifert created original violin style which is unique in jazz.

During the festival for the first time a piece composed by Zbigniew Seifert will be perfomed in Poland: Jazz Concerto for violin, symphonic ...

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Queenstown Jazz Festival Strikes New Chord

Source: Michael Ricci
September 3, 2009

Queenstown swings into spring this October with some exciting changes to its 31st annual jazz festival. A carnival atmosphere will take over the town as the ASB Queenstown JazzFest brings music to the masses in a 10-day live music celebration from 17 to 26 October. A sensational line-up of more than 50 bands and 200 Kiwi and international performers form a four pronged programme of free gigs, ticketed headline concerts, musical development and youth competition designed to involve, encourage, entertain ...

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