Festival News

Jazz This Week: The Cunninghams, Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, St. Louis Ragtimers, Dawn Weber, Erin Bode, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
July 10, 2009

Though summer vacation season is officially underway, the next few days will offer St. Louis jazz fans a pretty fair number of musical choices during what's usually a relatively slow time of year.Tonight, the Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra (pictured at left), a select ensemble of mostly teenage musicians from the West Coast that's touring the country this summer, stops in St. Louis for a performance at Jazz at the Bistro. The East St. Louis High ...

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2009 Savannah Jazz Festival: September 20 - 27

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2009

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday outdoors in beautiful Forsyth Park and various venues in Savannah. The 2009 “ 28th ” Savannah Jazz Festival, celebrating jazz as a living art form--built on a constantly evolving tradition will offer all types of jazz, from Dixieland, traditional swing, straight-ahead and bop to melodic standards, and funky down-home “gutbucket” blues. The festival boasts the best in international, national, regional and local jazz talent. Sponsored by the City of Savannah, the Festival is free and ...

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George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55

Source: All About Jazz
July 9, 2009

In Newport, RI, August 7 - 9, 2009 and CAREFUSION NEW YORK JAZZ FESTIVAL in New York City, June 2010 New Names for Jazz Festivals at Historic Sites NEW YORK, NY, David Schlotterbeck, CEO of CareFusion, announced today that the corporation will be the title sponsor for George Wein's Jazz Festival 55 in Newport, RI. In addition, CareFusion will sponsor a festival to be produced by Mr. Wein in New York City in June 2010. These commitments by CareFusion, a ...

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Wein's Jazz Festivals Get Infusion of Cash

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2009

At 83, George Wein hoped the future of his Newport folk and jazz festivals would have been set. But the founder of the annual Newport events and the New York jazz festival has been working harder then ever to keep the events alive. Yesterday at a New York press conference, Wein announced that he’d received a lifeline from CareFusion, a planned spinoff of Cardinal Health’s clinical and medical products businesses. The company outlined an expansive sponsorship deal for what will ...

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Creole Restaurant and Music Supper Club Latin Jazz Legacy Series

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2009

Creole Restaurant and Music Supper Club continues to raise artistic and showcase standards while invigorating the Harlem Jazz scene, and proudly presenting the Latin Jazz Legacy Series featuring top stars on the Latin Jazz scene

LATIN JAZZ LEGACY SERIES JULY & AUGUST 2009

July 10th and 11th at 8:00pm & 10:00pm CHEMBO CORNIEL LATIN JAZZ QUINTET CD Release Party Featuring Chembo Corniel (percussion), Ivan Renta (tenor sax), Elio Villafranca (piano), Carlo Derosa (acoustic bass), Vince Cherico ...

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Monterey Jazz Festival's Monterey County All-Star Band

Source: Monterey Jazz Festival
July 7, 2009

Monterey Jazz Festival’s Monterey County All-Star Band Kicks Off Annual Tour Of Japan, July 21 - August 3, 2009 All-Star Band Performs At 21st Monterey Jazz Festival In Noto, July 25 All-Star Band Performs In Los Gatos At Jazz On The Plazz, August 19 July 6, 2009; Monterey, CA; On Sunday, July 21, the Monterey Jazz Festival’s Monterey County High School All-Star Band and High School Honor Vocal Jazz Ensemble will depart for their ...

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SFJAZZ Announces 27th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival Artist Line-Up

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
July 6, 2009

Randall Kline, the Executive and Artistic Director of SFJAZZ—the leading non-profit jazz organization on the West Coast—today announced the complete artist line-up for the 27th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival. The Festival will begin with a celebration of Thelonious Monk’s Birthday with pianist Eric Reed on October 10. The season continues through November 21 and includes some of the most illustrious names in music, including: Jake Shimabukuro; Ornette Coleman; Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer; Ravi Shankar & Anoushka ...

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Montreux Jazz Festival to Feature 100 Performers

Source: All About Jazz
July 6, 2009

The Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland will start its 43rd annual round of show on Friday, featuring 100 artists from various genres, including rock, pop, soul, blues and of course jazz. British hip hop singer Lily Allen will do a gig, as will the rambunctious Jamaican vocalist Grace Jones. Jazz great Herbie Hancock and the virtuoso Chinese classical pianist Lang Lang are set to perform together a piano project they have been working on for over a year. Guitarists George ...

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