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Treasure Island Festival | 09.20 and 09.21 | SF

Source: JamBase
September 24, 2008

Words by: Dennis Cook | Images by: Dave Vann

Treasure Island Music Festival :: 09.20 & 09.21 :: Treasure Island :: San Francisco, CA

Justice TI 2008 by Vann In broad strokes, Treasure Island Music Festival was a super cool country fair for freaks, complete with a Ferris Wheel that overlooked a truly bucolic San Francisco Bay. Strong breezes tousled the hair of the psychedelic fueled masses, many of who wore stretchy DayGlo outfits, fur Mohawks and all manner ...

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Women in Jazz Festival in Trenton

Source: All About Jazz
September 23, 2008

The Trenton Downtown Association (TDA) presents the second annual Women in Jazz festival in Downtown Trenton Friday, Oct. 10. The ladies will be doing it for themselves on Friday, Oct. 10 when Trenton2Nite brings an eclectic mix of seasoned and up-and coming female artists to downtown for the second annual Women in Jazz festival. In addition to celebrating girl power, the festival will help commemorate the Trenton Community Music Schools Ten Year Anniversary. The festival, part of TDAs Trenton2Nite series, ...

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Hancock Aside, Monterey Jazz Festival Was a Knockout

Source: All About Jazz
September 23, 2008

The 51st annual Monterey Jazz Festival ended Sunday, shortly before midnight, with a set by Herbie Hancock that felt straight out of a Vegas casino. Too bad that Herbie, given the place of honor at the nation's best jazz festival, didn't close things out with something a little bit special or ambitious. Instead, he strapped on his keytar and played “Chameleon" for what must have been the 10,000th time. It was a glib finish to a festival that was anything ...

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At the Monterey Jazz Festival, Music is Transcendent

Source: All About Jazz
September 22, 2008

51ST MONTEREY FESTIVAL SOOTHES SOUL OF LISTENER

So what is this love affair with the Monterey Jazz Festival all about? This weekend, about 40,000 bodies are expected to push through the turnstiles of the Monterey County Fairgrounds to hear massive amounts of music, yes, but also to get sunburned or rained on and to have their listening disrupted by low-flying jets from nearby Monterey Peninsula Airport. So what's it about, exactly? Hard to put my finger on it, sitting at ...

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Jamie Cullum, Cassandra Wilson Highlight Monterey Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
September 22, 2008

Christian McBride had been waiting a long time for the moment to arrive. When it finally did, the bassist couldn't hold back his enthusiasm. “Monterey," he exclaimed. “Hot damn!" That pretty much summed up what everyone was feeling during the 51st annual Monterey Jazz Festival, which ran Friday through Sunday at the city's gorgeous oak-tree-dotted fairgrounds. Many of the 40,000 fans that turned out for the event had been looking ahead to the 2008 festival basically from the moment last ...

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Mississippi Jazz & Heritage Festival

Source: All About Jazz
September 22, 2008

13th Annual Mississippi Jazz & Heritage Festival Continues in Summit Mississippi Jazz & Heritage Festival Honors Late Jazz Saxophonist John Gilmore Happy Birthday John Gilmore & London Branch (Summit, MS) The 13th Annual Mississippi Jazz & Heritage Festival (MJHF), celebrating Mississippi's great jazz legacy, will take place in Summit, Mississippi on Sunday, September, 28, 2008, from 6:00pm - 8:00pm. The late legendary jazz saxophonist and Summit, Mississippi native John Gilmore will be honored on what would have been ...

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Monterey Jazz Festival: Happy Overload of Good Music

Source: All About Jazz
September 21, 2008

If you're reading this while drinking your Saturday morning coffee, then all the events here recorded happened only a few hours ago.

This is a quick dispatch from the Monterey Jazz Festival, where, at ten minutes past midnight, saxophonist Joshua Redman, drummer Brian Blade and bassist Matt Penman were playing a tune called “Identity Thief," sounding like scientists in a laboratory, working with rare mixtures of melody, color and time.

It was quiet music, a little bit strange and extremely ...

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In Downtown L.A., a Fresh Mix of New Music Sounds, Via San Diego

Source: Michael Ricci
September 21, 2008

The Carlsbad Music Festival previewed five new events at Zipper Hall, and at REDCAT, CalArts began its Creative Music Festival featuring UC San Diego's Anthony Davis and his group Episteme.

That downtown Los Angeles has become new music central is one thing, but that downtown's new music scene could be so taken over by San Diego-area beach towns, as happened Friday night, really is something that would have been unimaginable a few years ago.

In the Colburn School's Zipper Hall, ...

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