Festival News

Both Garfield Jazz Bands Excel at Hampton Festival

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
March 3, 2009

from The Seattle Times: In a Nazarene church in Moscow, Idaho, the Garfield High School jazz band performed two charts Saturday night for the first time: “Just You Just Me,” and “I’ve Never Been In Love Before.” “We played the new charts very well,” said woodwind player Carl Majeau, a senior, “but we could get the dynamics a lot tighter and bring the energy level up a little. When you’re not 100 percent comfortable with the tune, more of your ...

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Summer Camp Adds Willie Nelson

Source: JamBase
March 2, 2009

WILLIE NELSON TOPS THE THIRD ROUND OF ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE SUMMER CAMP 2009 MUSIC FESTIVAL

Willie Nelson Jay Goldberg Events & Entertainment and Jam Productions, Ltd., are proud to announce another round of confirmed artists for the Summer Camp 2009 Music Festival - May 22, 23, & 24, 2009 at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, IL.

Joining the lineup for this year will be:

Willie Nelson Bassnectar That 1 Guy EOTO ...

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Garrett Lakes Arts Festival Kicks Off Season with Dave Leonhardt and the Shelley Oliver Tap Dancers

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2009

Dave Leonhardt Jazz Group & Shelley Oliver Tap Dancers Friday, April 17, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.Garrett College Auditorium

Garrett Lakes Arts Festival (GLAF) begins its 2009 Season of performing arts with its April 17 performance of The Dave Leonhardt Jazz Group with the Shelley Oliver Tap Dancers. Musicians and dancers will take the stage Friday, April 17, 7:30 p.m., at the Garrett College Auditorium.

David Leonhardt, jazz pianist and composer, is a highly skilled and versatile musician. His ...

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2009 Playboy Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2009

Line up for the 31st Annual Playboy Jazz Festival

June 13 & 14, 2009 at the Hollywood Bowl, presented in cooperation with the L.A. Philharmonic Association. SATURDAY 13 2:20- 11:00 PM

The Neville Brothers

Remembering the Miles Davis Classic Kind of Blue @50 Jimmy Cobb's So What Band Featuring Wallace Roney, Vincent Herring, Javon Jackson, Larry Willis and Buster Williams.

Summer Storm Starring: Norman Brown, Wayman Tisdale, Eric Darius featuring ...

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Frame After Frame Hollywood's Golden Age in Soundtracks

Source: Michael Ricci
February 28, 2009

Hollywood’s “Golden Age” was, of course, black and white. What gave the pre-World War II talkies their “color” was their ornate, even gaudy, music.

Many of those scores were the product of migr composers and their American followers, who wrote in a reactionary tuneful, tonal, lush Wagnerian style. Although the language of a Europe that was no more, it became the sound of American cinema.

That, to some extent, is the theme of the Pacific Symphony’s American Compos- ers Festival ...

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Missouri Botanical Garden Announces 2009 Whitaker Music Festival Lineup

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
February 28, 2009

The Missouri Botanical Garden has announced the 2009 lineup of free concerts for the annual Whitaker Music Festival, which this year will take place on ten consecutive Wednesdays starting June 3 and ending August 5.As is customary, the 2009 schedule includes a number of artists of interest to jazz enthusiasts, but unlike some past years, those shows are spread throughout the schedule instead of all taking place during June.Pianist Peter Martin (pictured), a St. Louis native ...

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Seabreeze Jazz Festival to Heat up Northwest Florida's Gulf Coast

Source: All About Jazz
February 27, 2009

Jazz-lovers and sun-seekers across the nation are getting ready to “shake off those winter blues"--with a remedy of white sands, beautiful water, and the best in smooth contemporary jazz. The coastal beach setting of the Pier Park Amphitheater in Panama City Beach will “come alive" as the 2009 ResortQuest Seabreeze Jazz Festival makes it way to this exciting new location on April 16th-19th. Known as the ULTIMATE weekend in smooth--The ResortQuest Seabreeze Jazz Festival in 2008 celebrated its 10th Anniversary. ...

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Playboy Jazz Fest Announces Lineup

Source: All About Jazz
February 27, 2009

Quincy Jones had a twofold purpose in taking the podium at Wednesday's announcement of the 31st annual Playboy Jazz Festival.

First he continued his advocacy for a secretary of the arts Cabinet position; second he introduced 23-year-old Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez, whom he has taken under his wing over the past few years.

Rodriguez, who performed two tunes at the Playboy Mansion Wednesday, will make his highest profile appearance since defecting to the U.S. last year on the festival's second ...

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