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Terri Pontremoli is Lifting Detroit's Annual Jazz Fest to New Heights
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JazzStage Productions
Terri Pontremoli grew up as a gifted violinist in Cleveland, where she attended the Cleveland Institute of Music and, without skipping a beat, started teaching at the school at 21. A busy freelancer, she played for Cleveland Opera, accompanied entertainers like Sammy Davis Jr., worked as a studio musician and contracted pit bands for musicals and concerts. Then she slammed into her 40th birthday. “I realized that I was going from cradle to grave at the Cleveland Institute of Music, ...
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Savoring Jazz and Wine: 20th Annual Herndon Labor Day Jazz and Wine Festival
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All About Jazz
Labor Day festival returns for 20th time Visitors to downtown Herndon this Labor Day will have an opportunity to exercise their love for music and Virginia wines if they choose to stop by the 20th Annual Labor Day Jazz and Wine Festival. The six-hour event will feature live performances from area musicians and a wine tasting from Virginia wineries. “It's an opportunity to celebrate the end of the summer," said Ann Marie Heiser, the Town of Herndon Parks and Recreation ...
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Tanglewood Season Closes with Annual Jazz Festival
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All About Jazz
With the end of August and the upcoming Labor Day holiday, a week of relative repose makes for a natural demarcation point between the musically hyperactive summer festival season and several imminent regional fall chamber and college series, which start up after Labor Day. I'll focus on several of those next week. Though Tanglewood, that colossus among presenters, concludes its classical programming, there's still more to come: This year's Tanglewood Jazz Festival, which runs from Aug. 29-31, will present five ...
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Ode to Ornette
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All About Jazz
Chicago's certified jazz genius talks the deeper meaning of free jazz. By Ken Vandermark EDITOR'S NOTE: In 1959, a 29-year-old Ornette Coleman released his second album for Atlantic (and just his fourth in all), The Shape of Jazz to Come. The title told the simple truth: Coleman thought outside the bop and charted new territory that's still being explored in the 21st century. One of Coleman's numerous disciples, Ken Vandermark, son of jazz critic Stu Vandermark, moved to Chicago ...
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Legend, Rising Star Highlight Tanglewood Jazz Festival
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All About Jazz
Some critics use chronological age as a crucial standard for measuring talent, just as powerful publicity machines fixate on youth as a prime marketing point for peddling jazz products. But in the real world of the musicians themselves, there isn't any generation gap, no cultural chasm between Old Masters residing atop Mount Olympus and rising New Masters. For proof, look only to the lineup this weekend at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, which features pianist Marian McPartland, the legendary 90-year-old pianist/composer, ...
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Chicago Jazz Festival Starts Today
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All About Jazz
Grant Park; Thu 28-Sun 31 When jazz fans scan this year's lineup, two names will jump off the page: Sonny and Ornette. Sonny Rollins (Pritzker Pavilion), who kicks off the fest Thursday night, may be the exemplar of bebop's thorny relationship to its past. At 78, Rollins remains a mercurial and thrilling live performer, refusing to fit his unpredictable solos into the neat box jazz historians have assigned him. (Aging jazz musicians, take note.) And Ornette Coleman (Petrillo Music Shell)? ...
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Best Bets for the Detroit International Jazz Fest
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All About Jazz
Detroit and Philadelphia have such similar jazz histories that the cities might well be twins separated at birth. Both reached their zenith of influence in the hard bop 1950s. Both graduated countless players to the national scene. Both produced R&B juggernauts, Motown and Philly soul. The 29th annual Detroit International Jazz Festival, which runs Friday through Monday, is dedicated to these meccas. More than 100 national, local and school groups will perform under the banner of “A Love Supreme: The ...
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Distinct Sounds of Jazz Take Center Stage
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All About Jazz
Fox Jazz Fest set for weekend in Menasha At Fox Jazz Fest, expect to let what you hear expand your definition of jazz. Advertisement Like a language with many dialects, jazz speaks to its listeners in many forms. There are Dixieland and bebop, Latin and fusion. If you don't like one sound, chances are you'll like another. “It's a creative language where the key to it is improvisation," said trumpet player Bob Levy, a professor emeritus of music at Lawrence ...
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