Festival News

Lots of Jazz Coming to Bumbershoot in Seattle

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2007

Jazz unfortunately continues to be a low priority at Bumbershoot, with no big name acts in this year's lineup.

On the upside, a beloved local jazz educator and a jazz nonprofit and its director will be honored at Bumbershoot at today's Mayor's Arts Awards ceremony -- and the three-day spree does continue to present good regional jazz. Excellent national soul, blues and world-music groups, and a peek at a cool new blues fiction film, are on the menu, as well. ...

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Pittsfield CityJazz Festival Announces Lineup for October 4-7 Event

Source: Ed Bride Associates
August 30, 2007

Performances Include Latin Jazz Dance Party, Women in Jazz, Professional and Student Jazz Ensembles PITTSFIELD, Massachusetts, Aug. 30, 2007--The third annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival today announced the lineup for the Columbus Day weekend event, and it includes something for everybody: a night of music featuring groups headed by women; a Latin Jazz Dance Party; new material prepared for a special Jazz orchestra comprising Pittsfield high school students; documentary Jazz films; and the return of two remarkable performers from last year's ...

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Requesting Sponsorship Support for the 1st Annual Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival in Memphis, TN

Source: All About Jazz
August 30, 2007

Dear Potential Sponsor, Please join us in this historic occasion to honor one of Memphis' unfairly forgotten yet greatest musicians, visionaries and sons, the incomparable Jimmie Lunceford. Please sponsor and support the first annual Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival. This three day celebration will take place on October 19-21 2007 throughout various locations in the city. Purpose Of The Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival: To Honor And Bring Awareness To The Forgotten And Impressive Legacy And Achievements Of Jimmie Lunceford, The First ...

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Benefit Concert for the 5th Annual Festival of New Trumpet Music

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
August 30, 2007

To Take Place at 8:00 PM on September 15, 2007 at CIM -Center for Improvised Music 295 Douglass St., #1, Brooklyn, NY, (betw 3rd and 4th avenues) Featuring Ralph Alessi, Lewis Barnes, Cecil Bridgewater, Taylor Ho Bynum, Roy Campbell Jr., Dave Douglas, Tanya Kalmanovitch, Warren Smith, and many more... “The Festival of New Trumpet Music has become a contender among New York's jazz- concert series." --Ben Ratliff, The New York Times For the 2007 FONT Music Benefit, the festival brings ...

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John Coltrane Memorial Concert: For 30 Years This 'Trane's Been Rolling -- September 16-22, 2007

Source: Mary Curtin Productions
August 28, 2007

Music (Jazz / a week of concerts, including one benefit, along with other community events) August, 2007 (revised 8/17/2007) Mary Curtin, JCMC media contact, 617-241-9664, 617-470-5867 (cell), [email protected] Leonard Brown & Emmett Price, JCMC co-producers, 617-373-4128 or 617-373-4374, [email protected]

THE 30TH ANNUAL JOHN COLTRANE MEMORIAL CONCERT

a full week of concerts, including a benefit concert for the JCMC Educational Outreach Program, and other community events

Featuring ...

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Jazzfest Berlin 07: From Chaabi to Choro

Source: All About Jazz
August 28, 2007

This year's JazzFest Berlin will take place from 31 October to 4 November. As in past years, the main attraction of the festival will again be the programme itself and again its abundance will require that we fall back on the Wednesday as the starting day. This is why: Obviously, the Berlin audience is well versed when it comes to “reunifications". With El Gusto we will present a major Algerian-French project uniting Muslim and Jewish musicians playing Chaabi music which, ...

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Opening of the Punkt Kunst 2007 Exhibition

Source: All About Jazz
August 28, 2007

Wednsday, August 29, 7 pm, at the Srlandet Art Museum in Kristiansand, Norway Punkt Kunst is an art exhibition with links between visual art and music. The visual art comprises a selection of 13 of the works from the Srlandet Art Museum's collection. Each of the works is connected to individual musical interpretations that are created by musicians participating at the Punkt Festival. The art presented will range from old romantic paintings to contemporary non-figurative works, and the selection of ...

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Multicultural Music at Manly International Jazz Festival 2007

Source: All About Jazz
August 25, 2007

One of Sydney's local Councils, Manly Council, will be conducting their 30th Anniversary of the Manly International Jazz Festival, the largest and longest running free community based Jazz Festival in Australia. The Festival is held over the October long weekend and in 2007 takes place on Saturday 29th, Sunday 30th September and Monday 1st October.

With a relaxed family atmosphere and a breathtaking ocean beachfront backdrop, the festival location is considered to be the best for a Jazz Festival in ...

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