Festival News

Skywards Dubai International Jazz Festival 2008

Source: All About Jazz
November 29, 2007

Organized by: CHILLOUT PRODUCTIONS Starting date: February 21st, 2008 End Date: March 1st, 2008. Location: Dubai - United Arab Emirates

For the 6th annual edition of the Skywards Dubai International Jazz festival, the organizers “Chillout Productions" are committed to feature a selection of the world's outstanding recording performers and artists to cater for all types and kinds of music lovers including Jazz, pop, blues, rock, afro-centric music and much much more!

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Origin Records: Jazz Label Marks a Swinging Decade

Source: All About Jazz
November 29, 2007

By February of next year, Ballard's Origin Records will have released 200 jazz recordings, More than half of them from local artists. Friday night, to celebrate the label's 10th anniversary, Ballard will swing with the sounds of 16 groups pouring out of 11 different venues. With acts ranging from the Seattle Arts Trio -- a new group coming out of the University of Washington Jazz Studies program -- to a quintet led by retired Cornish College of the Arts Professor ...

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Nah Youn Sun: Korea's Jazz Princess in Penang

Source: All About Jazz
November 29, 2007

The Penang Island Jazz Festival 2007 showcases Korea's Nah Youn Sun, who has garnered fame at international jazz competitions. DENNIS CHUA writes of her repute in the music genre. WHEN South Korea's still-infant jazz scene comes under the spotlight, many a music lover would name soft-spoken Nah Youn Sun as the country's jazz princess. Nah is widely recognised both in her homeland and in France where she studied, for her passion and dedication to jazz music. A vocalist, pianist and ...

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Ears&Eyes Festival - December 7-9, 2007 - Chicago, IL

Source: All About Jazz
November 28, 2007

The 2nd Annual Ears&Eyes Festival December 8 & 9, 2007 Subterranean :: 2011 W North Ave The annual ears&eyes Festival is an aural (ears) and visual (eyes) experience that brings together local, national, and international talent in music, visual arts, and film for one electrifying weekend of events in Chicago. We aim to share with the community an expression of the most creative, innovative, and exciting up-and-coming artists today and dedicate ourselves to the new and ...

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2008 Telluride Jazz Celebration

Source: All About Jazz
November 26, 2007

TELLURIDE JAZZ CELEBRATION TO KICK OFF 2008 TELLURIDE MUSIC FESTIVAL SEASON JUNE 5-8.

The Town of Telluride on October 3, 2007 approved a date change for the annual Telluride Jazz Celebration (TJC), which will take place June 5-8, 2008 and kick off the town's annual summer music festival season. The jazz festival, which had been produced each year during the first weekend in August since its debut in 1977, will now coincide with the annual Telluride ...

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New Orleans-Theme St. Croix Blue Bay Jazz Fest 2007 a Booming Success

Source: All About Jazz
November 24, 2007

Sylvain Music Notes -- The St. Croix Blue Bay Jazz Fest 2007 let loose a star-studded compact of New Orleans Jazz greats and the very best that St. Croix has on offer in a four-day long event from Thursday, November 15 to Sunday, November 18. Bridget Dawson, Executive Director of the Frederiksted Economic Development Association, proclaimed the festival the “best event in nearly 20-years on the island," touting the economic boom to the local downtown economy.

Bill Kassler writes, “Walking ...

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London Jazz Festival: We All Love Ella / Charlie Hunter / Gerard Presencer

Source: All About Jazz
November 22, 2007

"I didn't want it to end," a woman in front of me was saying to her friend as the London jazz festival's We All Love Ella opening show wound up on a vocal-relay race through A Tisket a Tasket that threatened to blow the packed Festival Hall into the street. I did. I wanted to get up to the West End to catch Charlie Hunter, the fearsome American avant-funk guitarist, and maybe get the word on double-bass legend Charlie Haden's ...

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Cape Town International Jazz Festival to Grows into a 10-Day Event

Source: All About Jazz
November 20, 2007

The Cape Town International Jazz Festival is like a house with many rooms. Known as Africa's Grandest Gathering, the festival which will be in its ninth year when it takes place on Friday 28-Saturday 29 March 2008 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre brings together 40 jazz and jazz-related musical groups under its banner. Over the last eight years, African bands have shared the festival's five stages with their overseas counterparts on a 50/50 basis. This presentation of varied ...

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