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SF Jazz fest maintains a world view

Source: All About Jazz
October 16, 2005

While the San Francisco Jazz Festival continues to look far beyond the nation's borders, presenting a globe-spanning array of artists, it hasn't forgotten that charity begins at home. Reflecting the increasingly international nature of jazz, the 23rd annual installment the West Coast's preeminent jazz festival features artists from Cuba, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Benin, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Kyrgyzstan and Congo, as well as the United States. But Wednesday's opening night event at Herbst Theatre is a fund-raiser for victims of ...

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Jazz lovers sample life on the edge: Avant-garde artists lined up for Edgefest

Source: All About Jazz
October 16, 2005

Edgefest, Ann Arbor's creative-jazz event designed for the musically curious, returns for its annual run Wednesday-Saturday. As it has the past eight years, Edgefest mixes musicians of international and national acclaim with talented locals for shows at the Kerrytown Concert House and the Firefly Club. This year's event - the largest yet, according to director Dave Lynch - will present 50 musicians in 12 separate lineups, some of whom have played the event before in the various musical mix-and-match combinations ...

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Rehoboth Beach jazz festival is jam-packed with A-list talents

Source: All About Jazz
October 14, 2005

The 16th annual Rehoboth Beach Autumn Jazz Festival, which kicked off Wednesday, continues through Sunday with headliners including Al Jarreau, Bob James, Booker T. & the MGs, and Al Green. The Delaware Celebration of Jazz Inc. organization has booked an increasingly large number of national names from in and around the jazz, blues and pop genres. Its inaugural spring companion festival, the June 4-5 Blues at the Beach event, featured a sold-out performance by B.B. King. Headliners at previous autumn ...

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Additional Details Announced for 35th Annual Pitt Jazz Seminar and Concert Nov. 2-5

Source: All About Jazz
October 14, 2005

PITTSBURGH-The University of Pittsburgh celebrates its 35th Annual Jazz Seminar and Concert Nov. 2-5. Jazz Week will include a lineup of internationally renowned jazz musicians, free on-campus seminars and lectures, appearances in Pittsburgh-area schools and other community venues, brown-bag lunches with live jazz, a jazz memorabilia exhibition, and the annual concert at 8 p.m. Nov 5 in Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Jazz Week guest performers include Nicholas Payton, trumpet; Charles Tolliver, trumpet; James Spaulding, alto saxophone; James ...

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Barbados Jazz Festival 2006 Headliners

Source: All About Jazz
October 14, 2005

An All-Star Line-up Set to Perform at the Barbados Jazz Festival January 9 – 15, 2006 Lionel Richie to Headline the 13th Annual Jazz Festival Barbados, WI – October 11, 2005 – A dazzling line-up of international performers, including singing sensation Lionel Richie and musician Jill Scott, make the Thirteenth Annual Barbados Jazz Festival a must for music lovers of all ages. There is an assortment of music for every taste, from up and coming talent to jazz purists. The ...

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Tonight, Oct 7: Chico O’Farrill Afro Cuban Orchestra performs at 7:30 PM

Source: All About Jazz
October 7, 2005

The Chico O’Farrill Afro Cuban Orchestra, conducted by Arturo O’Farrill, will perform tonight, along with the Afro Latin Jazz Dance Company, at Saint Peter's Church, 619 Lexington Ave, at 54th St. This event is part of the All Nite Soul Jazz Festival 2005, October 2 - 9, celebrating forty years of Jazz Ministry at Saint Peter's Church. Live performances by living legends, artwork and photography by jazz musicians, documentary films, tributes to women jazz pioneers and newly commissioned works of ...

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24th Cape May Jazz Festival, A Tribute to Herbie Mann, November 11-13

Source: All About Jazz
October 7, 2005

The 24th Cape May Jazz Festival presented by Bank of America kicks off Friday November 11 honoring the late premier jazz flutist, Herbie Mann….voted Number One jazz flutist for 13 years by Downbeat Magazine. Long before “world music” was coined, Herbie was exploring the rhythms of Africa, India, Cuba, Jamaica and especially Brazil. Mann performed to a sell out crowd at the Cape May Jazz Festival April 1999 and November 2002. At his last appearance he asked if Cape May ...

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Barcelona Jazz Festival 2005 Line Up

Source: All About Jazz
October 7, 2005

Barcelona Jazz Festival 2005 37th Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona From 27th October to 5ft December 2005 Thursday 27 October / 21.00h. CHARLIE PARKER IN MEMORIAM PHIL WOODS Bird with strings… and more! Palau de la Música Prices: From 24 To 45 Euros Friday, 28 October / 21.00h. PAQUITO D’RIVERA 50 años y 300 noches Palau de la ...

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