Festival News

Jazz on the Plaza at Citicorp Center, NYC

Source: All About Jazz
May 11, 2005

The Jazz Commission at Saint Peter's Church is proud to announce the opening of the 2005 season of JAZZ ON THE PLAZA on Thursday, May 12, 2005, at 12:30 PM. Concerts are free to the public and can be enjoyed from 12:30 - 1:45 PM on the outdoor plaza of the Citicorp Center, on the corner of 53rd St. and Lexington Ave. Bring your lunch and enjoy great jazz for a month of Thursdays: May 12, 19, 26 and June ...

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JazzAscona, "The Cannes of classic jazz" - June 24 to July 3, 2005

Source: All About Jazz
May 11, 2005

"The Cannes of classic jazz", “The most important swing & mainstream event in Europe". Vastly updated last year by its new 33-year-old Artistic Director Nicolas Gilliet, Jazz Ascona New Orleans and Classics 2005 (Ascona, Lago Maggiore, Switzerland) will start right off with a bang. Gilliet's 2004 innovations made a hit: more 'black music'; opening up the program to big name USA 'mainstream' players, and a wider billboard reflecting a wise balance between respect-for and reform-of the great jazz tradition. As ...

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2005 Kansas City Music Blues and Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2005

For Immediate Release May 9, 2005 The Kansas City Music Blues and Jazz Festival will take place on September 3rd and 4th, 2005 at The Woodlands Horse Track. Blues and Jazz fans will see 24 acts over 2 days. The facility will hold 30,000. The covered grandstand will shelter Kansas City Music lovers from the sun and elements. There is plenty of free parking. The level, paved and patrolled parking lots will allow the physically challenged to attend as well ...

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Kingston Jazz Festival Sunday, June 26, 2005 12:00 to 7:00 p.m. Free Admission To All Events

Source: All About Jazz
May 6, 2005

May 6, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Planet Arts in collaboration with the City of Kingston, New York presents the KINGSTON JAZZ FESTIVAL Sunday, June 26, 2005 12:00 to 7:00 p.m. + by the river in the Rondout section of the city FREE ADMISSION TO ALL EVENTS The ALL-STAR lineup includes: The Jon Faddis Quartet (Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie) The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (Thad Jones legacy) with special guest Joe Lovano The Renee ...

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International festival TIME IN JAZZ - Eighteenth edition - Berchidda (SS), Sardinia - Italy, 11-15 August 2005

Source: All About Jazz
May 4, 2005

Held in the middle of August, the international Time in Jazz festival will take place in Berchidda (Province of Sassari) and in some of the neighbouring towns (Monti, Oschiri, Ozieri and Nughedu San Nicolò) which will host most of the scheduled daytime gigs.

Having reached its 18th edition, Time in Jazz will present productions quite unlike those of its previous editions, by hosting a variety of expressions alongside jazz: visual art, cinema, ethnic, traditional and contemporary music and poetry, among ...

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2005 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2005

2005 JAZZFEST

By Ricky Richardson

New Orleans-The year 2005 proved to be a landmark year for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, that featured many powerful and talented artist who performed for an attentive audience during the my visit for the 1st weekend of JazzFest, April 22nd –April 24th. The 2005 JazzFest was held on the Fairgrounds Race Track from April 22-May 1st.

The national advertisement stated “calling JazzFest a musical festival is like calling gumbo soup.” There is ...

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Billiy Holiday Music Festival 2005

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2005

Fifth Annual Billie Holiday Music Festival Billie Holiday, born April 7, 1915 died July 17,1959 Fifth Annual Billie Holiday Music Festival is accepting jazz poems (poets), artist renditions, bands and singers who invoke the style of Billie Holiday. Please submit tapes/poems, etc. for performances Memorial Holiday Weekend May, 29-30 in various venues in Baltimore and North Arts District. The Billie Holiday Music Festival features big Bands, songwriters, and singers who have auditioned thru tapes. The singers invoke but do not ...

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Playboy Jazz Presents First Live Concert at The Rose Bowl

Source: All About Jazz
April 27, 2005

Now in its 16th year, the “Pasadena Summer Fest" keeps growing, and this year moves its traditional Memorial Day weekend festivities to the Rose Bowl, located at 1001 Rose Bowl Drive in Pasadena.

On May 28, 29 and 30, from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., the festival traditions will remain the same with five great events presented simultaneously under the “Pasadena Summer Fest at the Rose Bowl” banner: Playboy Jazz at the Rose Bowl, the Family Fun Fest, A Taste ...

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