Festival News

Dates for Next Abu Dhabi and Dubai International Jazz Festivals Announced

Source: All About Jazz
August 27, 2004

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Tranquility Jazz Festival 2003 Takes Place in Anguilla

Source: All About Jazz
August 21, 2004

TRANQUILITY JAZZ FESTIVAL 2003 TAKES PLACE IN ANGUILLA Amidst overcast skies and heavy showers of rain, punctuated by fleeting sunbursts and brief starry skies, the first Annual Tranquility Jazz Festival took place in Anguilla from November 14-16, 2003. The mood was very upbeat and positive as hundreds of visitors, residents and Anguillians filled the elegant Santorini Restaurant and Lounge area at the Cuisinart Resort & Spa, the official Host Hotel of the Tranquility Jazz Festival for the first nightly performance ...

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Jazz Festival Bus Trip to Saratoga Springs, New York

Source: All About Jazz
August 20, 2004

"Saratoga Jazz Festival", now sponsored by Freihofers, has presented a two-day celebration of Jazz at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center located in Saratoga Springs, NewYork. In one of the most beautiful park settings in all of New York State, jazz can be heard from noon 'till midnight on the last Saturday and Sunday of the month of June. The range of jazz is wide enough so that there is something for everyone taste and the music is spread out over ...

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Jazz En Clave, Chicago's First Annual Latin Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2004

Mark your calendars for Jazz En Clave, Chicago's First Annual Latin Jazz Festival, this November 10-14, featuring Eddie Palmieri, Manny Oquendo, Andy Gonzalez, Bobby Sanabria, John Santos, and many more. Concerts, jam sessions, lectures, and master classes with the pros will take place at HotHouse, the Chicago Historical Society, and the Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center. As the unique fusion of American Jazz and Caribbean percussion that developed in immigrant communities throughout the Americas in the Twentieth Century, Latin Jazz represents ...

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19th Annual Long Beach Jazz Festival Sizzles

Source: All About Jazz
August 16, 2004

17th Annual Long Beach Jazz Festival By Ricky Richardson

Long Beach-Here we go again. Another jazz festival is upon us. Not just any jazz festival, this is the annual Long Beach Jazz Festival. This is by far the premier jazz festival of Southern California. This is the most anticipated festival of the year.

August 13th-15th was a busy weekend in Los Angeles. Think of all of the various events available to attend, such as the Watts Summer Festival, St. Andrews ...

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City Parks Foundation Presents Free Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Aug. 21 - 22

Source: All About Jazz
August 13, 2004

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George Wein Outshines Galaxy of Stars

Source: All About Jazz
August 13, 2004

NEWPORT - In 1954, the Newport Jazz Festival married jazz with high society in two nights of shows at the Newport Casino. On Thursday night at The Breakers, it was a renewal of vows of sorts, with a black-tie gala salute to the jazz festival's 50th anniversary. The night was a mix of a jazz jam session and a Bellevue ball. “It's taken 50 years to get back to that," said Jack Casey of Newport. The party was a potpourri ...

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Thurman Green Scholarship Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
August 10, 2004

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