Festival News

Smooth Music Cruise Sets Sail Next Winter

Source: All About Jazz
June 11, 2008

Dust off your sailing shoes. Haven Entertainment has set Jan. 31 to Feb. 5 as the dates for next years Smooth Music Cruise. The cruise will feature performances by Norman Brown (pictured), Nick Colionne, Boney James, Mindi Abair, Larry Carlton and others. The 1,778-passenger Celebrity Century boards in Miami, hitting Key West, Coco Cay and the Bahamas along the way. The cruise will feature autograph signings, artist interviews and late-night jam sessions (hosted by Colionne), in addition to standard headlining ...

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Special Guests on "Piano Jazz at Tanglewood" with Marian McPartland

Source: All About Jazz
June 10, 2008

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced the addition of vocalists Nnenna Freelon and Spencer Day, and pianist, Mulgrew Miller to the 2008 Tanglewood Jazz Festival lineup. They will be the special guests of Marian McPartland for the live taping of “Piano Jazz" for NPR in celebration of Ms. McPartland's 90th birthday on August 29-31, 2008. Returning again this year is the popular Jazz Cafe, an informal, cabaret style venue that features emerging talent. This year's artists in the Jazz Cafe ...

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Art of Jazz Celebration: Festival Was All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
June 10, 2008

Mark Kneeshaw learned to play the blues on the final day of the third annual Art of Jazz Celebration. The 40-year-old Toronto photographer was one of several adults who got an accelerated harmonica lesson at the Jazz For Juniors Clinic yesterday afternoon. Instructor Mike Stevens had promised that participants would learn to play four songs in an hour. “I'm a slow learner, I've got to practise," said Kneeshaw, who wound up being able to eke out a recognizable melody on ...

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All over the Map in Libbey Bowl

Source: Michael Ricci
June 10, 2008

Steve Reich returns to the Ojai Music Festival as a veteran iconoclast. OJAI -- Steve Reich, who came to Ojai in 1973 as a radical, returned over the weekend a sage. Same music. Same ambience. Some of the same people. Pretty much the same town. But very different times. The 62nd Ojai Music Festival began Thursday -- a warm, soft evening air and supernal sunset pink enveloping the outdoor Libbey Bowl -- with raucous urban sounds. It ended at dusk ...

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Opera, Tango, Chamber Music, Jazz: It's All at New York Fest

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

El Paso Times columnist Ruth Taber, a native New Yorker, was invited by Paul Rosenblum, the managing director of the Caramoor International Music Festival, to write an article for this year's festival program. In the following column, she shares with El Pasoans what the festival has to offer. Ninety acres of gardens, a Venetian theater and a Spanish courtyard in the center of the late Lucie and Walter Rosen's Mediterranean villa will again serve as the setting for the annual ...

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How to Find a Groove at the Rochester International Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

In four days -- at 4:30 p.m. Friday -- the School of the Arts High School Jazz Band is scheduled to open the seventh Rochester International Jazz Festival on a closed-down Gibbs Street. Nine days later, the last you'll probably hear of the event is the sound of trucks hauling away the empty plastic beer cups after the Kentucky Headhunters and Medeski Martin & Wood have played their final notes on closed-down East Avenue. And in between? A bewildering Cuisinart ...

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Monday Night Jazz in Bushnell Park, Hartford, CT - New Directions!

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2008

Prudential Financial Presents The Hartford Jazz Society's Monday Night Jazz. A series of FREE concerts in Bushnell Park, Hartford

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July 7th - 6 pm Roy Campbell's TAZZ Roy Campbell - trumpet, flugelhorn Andrew Bemkey - piano Michael T.A. Thompson - drums Chris Sullivan - bass

8 pm Matthew Shipp Trio Matthew Shipp - piano Whit Dickey - drums Joe ...

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Experience the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival on Any Budget.

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2008

On Friday, June 20th the city will reverberate with the sounds of jazz as more than 50 venues play host to the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival, June 20 - June 29. From downtown to uptown, the east side to the west side, over 350 concerts will take place offering something for every budget. Get the most out of this year's Festival and enjoy a little bit of jazz or a whole lot of jazz.

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