Festival News

Miami's Jazz Scene

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

These cats have a plan for Miami's jazz scene!

I feel the pieces are in place right now in South Florida. -Larry Rosen, Jazz Roots

With a jazz series to debut in the fall and plans to open a jazz club on site this year, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts is embarking on the cultural equivalent of a jazz solo: exploring new rhythmic and melodic paths, not knowing where they will lead but confident that ...

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Temecula Jazz Fest

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

TEMECULA: Jazz lovers turn out for festival Annual event ends Sunday

Music fans turned out for shopping, a parade and, of course, live music at this weekend's annual Temecula Valley International Jazz Festival. The festival ends Sunday with several events, including Ruby and the Red Hots, a youth jazz festival, and a “wrap party jam session." Now in its fifth year, the festival started Thursday with a series of free and paid concerts throughout Old Town by musicians ...

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Chicago Glen Ellyn Jazz Fest a Draw Despite Weather Threat

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

Chicago Jazz Scene The forecast in downtown Glen Ellyn Saturday wasn't hazy at all, despite the darkening skies and light, rainy mist that threatened an otherwise pleasant midafternoon.

By 2 p.m., a few hundred people had gathered on Main Street south of the train tracks, clearly expecting an afternoon and evening filled with cool, smooth, traditional and big-band style jazz, courtesy of the second annual Jazz Fest Glen Ellyn. “I myself like Henry Johnson," said fest-goer Terry Smith, ...

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Rocco Ventrella at 1st Annual Smooth Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

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Jazzdor-Strasbourg-Berlin: A French Jazz Festival in Berlin!

Source: All About Jazz
July 12, 2008

The 2007 event posed Jazzdor, the Jazz Festival of Strasbourg (France), itself a first challenge: a four-day Jazz festival in Berlin, in order to present the aliveness of the French scene to the citizen of Berlin.

The absolutely positive balance of the first edition of the festival, the enthusiasm of all those involved and the artists exchanges propelled by the dynamics of the festival convinced Jazzdor to try the adventure again with a second edition of the festival in 2008. ...

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Denver's Five Points Community Hosts 7-Day Jazz & Blues Festival

Source: All About Jazz
July 12, 2008

Denver's historic Five Points will be the home of the After Five Jazz & Blues Festival 2008, a music extravaganza Aug. 23-29 during the Democratic National Convention. “The DNC will give Denver an opportunity to shine and we want to celebrate Denver's diverse communities, specifically the African-American culture in Five Points given its deep history in jazz and blues, “ says Tamara Banks, spokesperson for After Five, LLC, the group producing the event. From the 1920s to 1950s, Five Points ...

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OLG "Presents Music" Sponsors Windsor Bluesfest International

Source: All About Jazz
July 11, 2008

As Music Sponsor, OLG proudly supports the 13th annual Windsor Bluesfest International which has quickly grown into one of Canada's premier blues festivals. Featuring performances by top local, regional and international blues artists, such as Taj Mahal and David Wilcox, Bluesfest promises to be four full days of world-class music and entertainment. Running from Thursday, July 10 through Sunday, July 13, Bluesfest International is a celebration of classic blues supported by “OLG Presents Music", a touring summer-long series of sponsorships ...

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Ray Gonzlez Latin Jazz and Salsa Festival Hartford CT

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2008

The Ray Gonzlez Latin Jazz and Salsa Festival, a rousing success in its debut last summer, presents all-star regional and international musicians Saturday from 5 to 10 p.m. at Hartford's Mortensen Riverfront Plaza.

At the center of the festival -- which features such luminaries as virtuoso trumpeter Charlie Sepulveda, singer/composer Miguel “Menique" Barcasnegras and top-ranked timbale player Edwin Clemente -- is Hartford's own Ray Gonzlez, the great Latin jazz and salsa trumpeter/composer/arranger/bandleader/educator. Since coming to Hartford from his native Puerto ...

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