Festival News

Tanglewood Jazz Festival, September 1-3, 2006 in Lenox, Massachusetts

Source: All About Jazz
August 2, 2006

Featured Performers include Dr. John, Wynton Marsalis, Elvis Costello, Dave Brubeck, Ann Hampton Callaway, Irma Thomas, Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, The Big Three Palladium Orchestra, The Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Marian McPartland The John Stetch Trio, Rachael Price, Taylor Eigsti, Julian Lage, the Warren Wolf Quartet, Syncopation Dave Brubeck and Dr. John Performances Exclusive to Tanglewood Tanglewood Jazz Festival is sponsored by JazzTimes Magazine and Borders Books The Boston Symphony Orchestra will present its annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz ...

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Odessa Jazz Carnival 2006, September 15-17, 2006

Source: All About Jazz
July 28, 2006

Odessa Jazz Carnival 2006 6th edition September 15 - 17, 2006 The sixth international jazz festival is going to take place in Odessa during 15 - 17 September, 2006. For the sixth time Odessa, famous for being a pearl in the Black Sea coast of Ukraine, will become a hostess of the recognized fest “Jazz Carnival in Odessa". Originated in 2001 in the motherland of the first soviet jazzman Leonid Utyosov, this festival is held every ...

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Satchmo SummerFest, Aug. 3-6, 2006

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2006

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Longmont Jazz Festival, August 13-20

Source: All About Jazz
July 21, 2006

LONGMONT, CO--The Longmont Jazz Festival expands this year to a free eight-day celebration from August 13-20 of performances, a jazz clinic with Peter Sommer and Art Lande August 18, jam sessions, a jazz art show and more. On Saturday and Sunday August 19-20 from noon till night, the Roosevelt Park Pavilion will feature mainstream, '30s swing dance music and gypsy jazz, bebop, traditional, Latin, straight-ahead and avant-garde jazz. Dancing is encouraged. Food, drawings for prizes and booths for vendors will ...

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Festival Oriente Occidente September 1-9

Source: All About Jazz
July 21, 2006

Oriente Occidente Meetings of cultures in the mark of contemporary dance.

Rovereto and Trento 1-9 september 2006

Africa is the beating heart of one of the most important European Dance Festival, crossroads of contemporary trends for twenty-six years.

It is today's, yesterday's, and tomorrow's Africa, in which Georges Momboye entwines its ancient rythms to a great classic of the modernity, as in Stravinsky and Nijinsky's Le Sacre du Primtemps. Africa which blends hybrid cultures in Heddy ...

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"The Spirit of the Blues" at Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2006

Source: All About Jazz
July 21, 2006

LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS 2006 CELEBRATES “THE SPIRIT OF THE BLUES" AUGUST 4-27

All for FREE on the plazas of Lincoln Center!

WITH OUTSTANDING MUSIC PERFORMANCES OF JAZZ, BLUES, HIP-HOP, WORLD MUSIC AND MORE INCLUDING:

Sonny Rollins, Eddie Palmieri, Randy Weston, Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, Chico Hamilton, Guy Davis, Mavis Staples, The annual “Roots of American Music" festival --and much more!

Celebrating its 36th season, Lincoln Center Out of Doors will present ...

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Russian River Jazz Festival, September 9-10 2006

Source: All About Jazz
July 19, 2006

30 Years Of World-Class Jazz Along The Russian River 2006 Russian River Jazz Festival September 9 and 10 to Feature Etta James and the Roots Band; The Clarke/Duke Project with Stanley Clarke and George Duke; The Original Superstars of Jazz Fusion with Roy Ayers, Jean Carne, Wayne Henderson, Bobbi Humphrey, Ronnie Laws, Jon Lucien and Lonnie Liston Smith; KEM; The Bobby Hutcherson Quartet; Al Williams Jazz Society Featuring Barbara Morrison; and More

The Russian River Jazz Festival celebrates 30 years ...

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Monterey Jazz Festival Receives Grants For Archive Restoration

Source: All About Jazz
July 19, 2006

MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL RECEIVES OVER $350,000 IN GRANTS FOR RESTORATION OF HISTORIC ARCHIVE RECORDINGS ARCHIVAL RESTORATION SUPPORTED BY SAVE AMERICA'S TREASURES FUND, NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS & RECORDS COMMISSION, AND THE GRAMMY FOUNDATION RARE RECORDINGS FEATURE MJF PERFORMANCES BY DIZZY GILLESPIE, BILLIE HOLIDAY, LOUIS ARMSTRONG, DUKE ELLINGTON, MILES DAVIS, THELONIOUS MONK, SONNY ROLLINS, CHARLES MINGUS & OTHERS July 18, 2006; Monterey, California; Dizzy Gillespie began a storied history when he opened the first night of the first Monterey Jazz Festival on ...

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