Festival News

Blue Note Records and Bonnaroo Team to Present Somethin' Else

Source: All About Jazz
May 15, 2007

Dedicated Jazz Club At The 2007 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival Performers to include Robert Glasper, Stefon Harris, Jacky Terrasson, Lou Donaldson & Dr. Lonnie Smith, Ravi Coltrane, Scott Amendola & Nels Cline, Billy Martin & John Medeski; Downbeat Magazine to present afternoon panels. Blue Note Records and Bonnaroo are proud to announce that they will team to present Somethin' Else, a dedicated Jazz club curated by Blue Note Records at the 2007 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. The sixth ...

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Sibiu Jazz Festival 2007: The Sibiu People Review

Source: Sibiu People
May 15, 2007

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Jazz Fest in Montgomery County Next Month!

Source: All About Jazz
May 12, 2007

Conroe Jazz & More Society Presents Jazz Fest in Downtown Conroe 11am-8pm Heritage Park @ 500 Collins Featuring Level One Band (www.leveloneband.com )as our headliner. Dr. Howard Harris (A Music World Entertainment Artist), The Artform Theater Group (www.houstonpoets.com), Mark Holter and the Montgomery College Jazz Ensemble and many more. Games Moonwalk, Aqua Slide, & More Live Music Featuring: Level One Band, also Gospel, R&B, Rock, Country, & Zydeco Food BBQ, Nachos, Turkey Legs, Sausage, Funnel Cake, Ice Cream, ...

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Join Us for the 20th Anniversary of the Elkhart Jazz Festival!

Source: All About Jazz
May 10, 2007

June 22, 23, 24, 2007

Enjoy more than 150 world-renowned jazz artists on 6 unique downtown stages, with jazz from traditional to swing, blues to be-bop, smooth, straight-ahead and more. You'll find it all in downtown Elkhart, Indiana -- an incredible festival with big-city flair and an inviting small-town ambience. Truly “where jazz lovers meet jazz legends!"

Invited artists include:

Piano -- Shelly Berg, Eddie Higgins, John Sheridan, Johnny Varro, Mark Shane, Randy Morris

Bass -- John Bany, Jay Leonhart, ...

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New Jersey Jazz Society Presents Jazzfest

Source: All About Jazz
May 10, 2007

The New Jersey Jazz Society Presents Sanofi-Aventis JazzFest 2007 Kicks Off With Free Concert on June 2 Drew University Madison, New Jersey The Duke Ellington Legacy Band is one of two bands kicking off the sanofi-aventis Jazzfest with a free outdoor concert at Drew University in Madison on June 2. The 8-piece Duke Ellington Legacy Band is led by Edward Kennedy Ellington II, the Duke's grandson and features Wycliffe Gordon on trombone ...

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Pittsfield Cityjazz Festival Announces 2007 Dates, Oct. 4-7

Source: Ed Bride Associates
May 7, 2007

PITTSFIELD, Mass., May 8, 2007 - The Pittsfield CityJazz Festival has announced the dates and general format for the third annual event. Scheduled for Oct. 4-7, 2007, the festival has grown to four full evenings of concerts, plus educational and other events to be announced. The lineup is expected to be announced around Memorial Day. Festival founder and chairman Edward Bride said that this year's lineup will again include a mix of internationally-known leaders and soloists, up-and-coming performers, and new ...

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The Zipper Festival Benefits the Jazz House May 11th, 12th, & 13th

Source: All About Jazz
May 7, 2007

The Jazz House, a non-profit organization providing music learning and listening opportunities to all ages, will present a 3 Day Festival on May 11th, 12th, & 13th, a fundraiser for The Jazz House offering a huge array of artists and over 20 hours of various types of jazz, everything from straight-ahead to free-jazz.

This is our first one and we'd like to get this one under our belt and turn this into an annual event.

What started as a generous ...

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Anat Cohen, for All the World a Jazz Innovator

Source: All About Jazz
May 5, 2007

From Dixieland to Klezmer, Her Scope Knows No Bounds When Anat Cohen was growing up in Tel Aviv, she traveled around the city listening to Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald on her Walkman. She began to play the clarinet at 12, then joined a Dixieland band and embarked on what has become a lifelong cross-cultural journey. In the years since, Cohen has emerged as one of the brightest, most original young instrumentalists in jazz, playing saxophone and clarinet in no ...

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