Festival News

Playboys Free Community Concert May 9th

Source: All About Jazz
May 5, 2008

Artist Lineup for the Festival's 30th Birthday Bash

Longtime festival emcee Bill Cosby and associate producer Darlene Chan, along with Playboy founder and Playboy Jazz Festivals executive producer Hugh Hefner and president Dick Rosenzweig, hosted a press conference at the Playboy Mansion Wednesday afternoon to unveil the artist lineup for this years jazz festival at the Hollywood Bowl, June 15 and 16. Saturday afternoon and evening's performers are Jarreau; Sanchez and band with special guest Eddie Floyd; the James Moody ...

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New Home for Festival de Jazz de Montral

Source: All About Jazz
May 4, 2008

The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal will finally have a home!

The organizers of the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal are very happy to witness the realization of their grandest dream: a Maison du Festival de Jazz, featuring its own concert venue, will finally see the light of day, right in the heart of the Festival site and the new Quartier des spectacles. This project, a dream organizers have worked on for over a decade, promises benefits at ...

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Announcing the 4th Annual New Languages Festival June 12-14

Source: All About Jazz
May 4, 2008

The Fourth Annual New Languages Festival will take place from June 12th to 14th at the Living Theatre on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

The generation of jazz musicians that grew up in the wake of neoclassicism has come into its own, and extraordinary things are afoot. Their voices are as diverse as the milieu they came up in, but together they confirm that jazz will continue to spawn new musical languages in the 21st century.

For the past ...

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30th Anniversary Playboy Jazz Festival 2008

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2008

Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl Saturday & Sunday, June 14 & 15, 2008

Save the date for Playboy's annual celebration of jazz and blues with a spectacular array of musical talents. This year marks the 30th Anniversary of the event that continues to bring the biggest names in jazz to the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Since 1959 and his first Playboy Jazz Festival in Chicago, Playboy magazine Editor-in-Chief Hugh M. Hefner has brought outstanding performers such as ...

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The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival May 1st Through May 4th 2008

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2008

Mahalia Jackson, often called the greatest gospel singer, returned to her hometown to appear at the first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in April of 1970. While attending the Louisiana Heritage Fair in Congo Square (then known as Beauregard Square), she and Duke Ellington, who also appeared at the event, came upon the Eureka Brass Band leading a crowd of second-line revelers through the Festival grounds. George Wein, producer of the Festival, handed Ms. Jackson a microphone, she sang ...

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Bucharest International Jazz Competition for Bands and Vocalists

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2008

Bucharest International JAZZ Competition for BANDS and VOCALISTS May 7 - 13, 2009 Prizes: 7.000 Euro Deadline: February 10th, 2009 Complete information can be found at our website (link below). For any further question, please don't hesitate to contact us! Best regards, Bogdana Horatiu Programs Director jmEvents.ro / jeunesses musicales romania P.O. Box. 13-63, Bucharest 13 Phone: + 40 722.383.542 Fax: + 40 21 ...

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Le Quartier Des Spectacles Welcomes Joel Giberovitch and Upstairs!

Source: All About Jazz
May 1, 2008

Organizers of the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal are happy to announce that, next year, Montreal's own authentic Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill will move into the future Maison du Festival de Jazz, and celebrated jazz-club owner, Joel Giberovitch, is officially joining their team. Beginning in May 2009, Joel Giberovitch will hold the position of Director of Operations for shows and restaurant services at the resto-grill and the Maison Festival de Jazz, which, inaugurated in time for the 30th ...

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29th Annual Detroit International Jazz Festival Announces 2008 Lineup

Source: JazzStage Productions
April 30, 2008

Labor Day Weekend Classic to Celebrate the Rich Musical Heritage of Detroit and Philadelphia Philly Bassist Christian McBride to Serve As Guest Artist in Residence Festival organizers today announced the lineup for the 29th annual Detroit International Jazz Festival, Friday, August 29 through Monday, September 1, at Hart Plaza on the Detroit River waterfront. Billed as A Love Supreme: The Philly/Detroit Summit, the 2008 festival will celebrate the storied jazz and soul traditions of these two great American cities. “I ...

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