Festival News

Phil Woods and Cota Big Band Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month on April 13th at Stroudsburg’S Sherman Theater

Source: All About Jazz
March 31, 2009

Celebrate “Jazz Appreciation Month” at the Sherman Theater in downtown Stroudsburg on Monday, April 13th, at 7:30 p.m., with the third edition of “Library Alive”— the innovation of three dedicated high-performance collaborators: NEA Jazz Master Phil Woods and the Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts (COTA) Festival Orchestra, the Al Cohn Memorial Jazz Collection at East Stroudsburg University’s Kemp Library, and the Sherman Theater.

Monday’s concert features new discoveries by ESU Professor of Music Patrick Dorian, who’s gone “international” ...

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52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Presented by Verizon

Source: Monterey Jazz Festival
March 31, 2009

52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Presented By Verizon Celebrates The Joy Of Jazz With Legendary Icons, Classic Tributes And Young Upstarts On 9 Stages For 3 Days Of Nonstop Jazz Entertainment, September 18 - 20, 2009

2009 Artists-In-Residence Wynton Marsalis And The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra Headline Arena/Lyons Stage

Dave Brubeck Quartet Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of Time Out

Conrad Herwigs Latin Side All-Star Band Plays The Music Of Miles Davis And John Coltrane Commemorating 50th Anniversary Of ...

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Ultra Music Festival in Miami

Source: Michael Ricci
March 30, 2009

The gathering brings out raucous revelers as well as electronica's elite as DJs share the limelight.

“The DJ is the most important thing in music right now," will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas said in Miami on Saturday as the throb of the Ultra Music Festival vibrated the press tent around him. “In Europe, Australia, Brazil, Los Angeles and New York, electronic dance music really has this new inspirational energy. It reminds me of what hip-hop was in the 1980s." ...

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Jazz Lineup in Montreal

Source: Michael Ricci
March 30, 2009

The Montreal International Jazz Festival, one of the biggest such events in the world, will have a star-studded lineup for its July 1-12 run this year.

The dozens of attractions will include Wynton Marsalis, Jeff Beck, Ornette Coleman, Jackson Browne, King Sunny Ad, Femi Kuti, Pink Martini, Madeleine Peyroux, Buddy Guy, Susan Tedeschi, Joshua Redman, Patricia Barber, Chris Botti and a “Miles From India,” program, inspired by Miles Davis, with Rudresh Mahanthappa, U. Shrinivas, Robert Irving III and Pete Cosey. ...

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The 52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
March 29, 2009

The 52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival presented by Verizon will take place at the Monterey Fairgrounds, September 18 - 20, 2009.

Over 500 artists performing on 9 stages for 3 nights and 2 days of the world's best jazz, spread throughout the Festival's 20 acres of magnificent grounds.

MJF/52 Artists-In-Residence will be Wynton Marsalis and members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

Announcements regarding MJF/52 Arena and Grounds artists, as well as information on Ticket sales, will be available ...

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Outdoor Concerts Find New Home in Brooklyn

Source: Michael Ricci
March 29, 2009

A Concert Grows in Brooklyn McCarren Park Pool,located on the border between Williamsburg and Greenpoint in Brooklyn, is set to become a swimming spot again, and the summer rock concerts that put it on the musical map will move to the Williamsburg waterfront.

Stephanie Thayer, the executive director of the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, a nonprofit group that coordinated last years concerts, said a strip along the East River between North Eighth and North Ninth Streets ...

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JazzBoston's Jazz Week '09, Set for Apr. 25-May 3, Will Feature More Than 200 Events in 75 Locations

Source: Mary Curtin Productions
March 28, 2009

JazzBoston’s Jazz Week '09 Celebrates Boston Scene’s Staggering Stylistic Diversity Nine Days of Music Answer Question Posed by 2009 Theme: What's Your Jazz? Mayors Thomas M. Menino of Boston, E. Denise Simmons of Cambridge Officially Proclaim April 25 – May 3 “Jazz Week” What’s your jazz? Music lovers all across the Greater Boston area will get help answering that question during the third annual celebration of Jazz Week, which will feature more than 200 events of all styles in over ...

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Jimmy Heath at 19th Annual North Carolina Central University Jazz Festival, April 17

Source: All About Jazz
March 27, 2009

By Larry Reni Thomas Jazz master, Jimmy Heath, 82 years old, has been performing for over six decades with jazz giants like John Coltrane and Miles Davis. He and Ira Wiggins, a 53 years old, music professor at North Carolina Central University (NCCU), have a great deal in common. They both play the tenor, soprano saxophones and flute exceptionally well. They both love jazz. They both graduated from high school in North Carolina (Jimmy in Wilmington in 1943 and Ira ...

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