Festival News

Ninth Annual Newport Beach Jazz Party

Source: All About Jazz
February 15, 2009

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2008 Bonnaroo Photo Galleries W. Streaming Audio Just Released

Source: All About Jazz
February 15, 2009

The 2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival was an amazing time for the almost 100,000 music fans in range of the speakers from the six stages there. Since the first Bonnaroo Music Festival back in 2002, live music photographer David Oppenheimer has photographed some of each summers' musical highlights as all-star musicians from many genres graced Bonnaroo's stages.

David shared the stage with his camera capturing the performances of Phil Lesh and Friends, Jack Johnson, Widespread Panic, B.B. King, Willie Nelson, The ...

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All Good Festival 2009 Lineup

Source: JamBase
February 15, 2009

INITIAL ASSORTMENT FOR 13TH ANNUAL WEST VIRGINIA JEWEL

Ben Harper by Melissa Nicholson The 13th annual All Good Music Festival will be held July 10-12 at to Marvin's Mountaintop in Masontown, WV. Featuring an extended weekend of music and camping amongst the scenic West Virginia mountains, the All Good Festival presents fans with a showcase of the nation's best established and emerging live acts, described by Rolling Stone as one of the “coolest festivals around."

Confirmed All Good Festival 2009 ...

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Jazz Fest: Neil Young In, Aretha Out

Source: All About Jazz
February 14, 2009

Neil Young will join a slew of other first-time performers at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, a bittersweet announcement given that the “Queen of Soul" canceled her coveted appearance.

Jazz Fest producer Quint Davis said Aretha Franklin's activities surrounding President Barack Obama's inauguration, scheduling and travel issues led to the cancellation.

“She decided not to do any more work for a while and we honor that," Davis said. “But, we definitely told her we want her next ...

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Seattle Times: Improvised Music is Made for Listening

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
February 14, 2009

While all jazz is improvised music, not all improvised music is jazz. And that is about as good a place to start a discussion about the experimental art form collectively called “improvised music.” Starting tonight and continuing for two consecutive weekends, the Seattle Improvised Music Festival will feature a dozen musicians in various combinations, performing one of the most- difficult-to describe forms of modern music. There are several saxophone players (Wilson Shook, Wally Shoup, Kelvin Pittman), keyboard players (Gust Burns ...

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RVAjazzfest: Boots of Leather

Source: RVAjazz
February 13, 2009

Boots of Leather will perform at RVAjazzfest with Steven Bernstein, Fight the Big Bull, and Glows in the Dark on February 21, 2009, 8pm, at The Camel. Tickets are $10, all ages welcome. by Nathan GoodwynDrummer Brian Jones wants to record 40 records by the time he's 40. Last week, he turned 36. He's done 21 records so far, so he's got a ways to go.But not to worry, he says.“I'm ...

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Frank Demiero Jazz Festival Backs out of Agreement with Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
February 13, 2009

A bit of controversy has erupted in advance of the Frank DeMiero Jazz Festival which takes place later this month in Edmonds. The Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra (SWOJO) had been contacted by Executive Producer Joe DeMiero in mid-January to back up vocalist Carmen Bradford on Saturday, February 28. According to members of SWOJO, a fee had been negotiated and preparations were underway for the evenings music. Doug Reid had been hired to direct the band, replacing Daniel Barry who had ...

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Grammy Week: Magical Music Moments All over Town

Source: All About Jazz
February 13, 2009

Uncontrollable Urge While crack-is-wack-ster Whitney was staging another “comeback” at the Davis affair, we favored Saturday night’s more real-feeling rock- flavored happenings over the R&B/pop-machine-driven mashes.

The Rhino/Los Angeles mag event with The New York Dolls saw a spindly and spectacled David Johansen and youthful looking Sylvain Sylvain kiss and hiss onstage for fellow musicians Perry Farrell, Tim Burgess, Dead drummer Mickey Hart, Urge Overkill’s Nash Kato and director Jason Reitman (who spun for the crowd earlier under ...

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