Festival News

28th Telluride Jazz Celebration: August 6-8, 2004

Source: All About Jazz
March 31, 2004

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JAZZ @ USC 2004 beginning in April

Source: All About Jazz
March 30, 2004

USC Spectrum is proud to present it's 8th annual weeklong festival of jazz, JAZZ @ USC '04, featuring legendary jazz artists as well as cutting edge contemporary performers! See WAYNE SHORTER, PONCHO SANCHEZ, BRAD MEHLDAU, THE BLOOMDADDIES, the USC THORNTON JAZZ ORCHESTRA with guest PATTI AUSTIN and more from April 12-17. Please call USC Spectrum at 213.740.2167 for tickets and information, or visit www.usc.edu/spectrum. The complete schedule is as follows: TUESDAY, APRIL 13 - PONCHO SANCHEZ LATIN JAZZ BAND General ...

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Jazzfest 2004 June 12 & 13

Source: All About Jazz
March 29, 2004

Aventis Pharmaceuticals Jazzfest 2004

A Giants of Jazz Birthday Bash: Centennial Celebrations for Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins and Fats Waller June 12 & 13 Fairleigh Dickinson University Madison, New Jersey Tickets: $40.00/one day $75.00/two

Aventis Pharmaceuticals Jazzfest 2004, a weekend of great jazz for the whole family, will be coming to the Madison, New Jersey campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University on Saturday and Sunday, June 12 ...

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Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium 5th Annual Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
March 29, 2004

CBJC'S 5TH ANNUAL JAZZ FESTIVAL GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN BROOKLYN!

The Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium (CBJC) will host its 5th fabulous year coordinating a Jazz Festival throughout the month of April at an assortment of Brooklyn venues. The April Jazz Festival kicks off this year with a Gala at the Sugarhill Supper Club, 615 DeKalb Avenue (corner of Nostrand Ave). This year's event features the great saxophonist Gary Bartz with his quartet as well as a sensational ...

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Elevate Your Senses at Janus Jazz Aspen's June and Labor Day Festivals

Source: All About Jazz
March 27, 2004

JUNE 2004 LINE-UP CONFIRMED - WYNTON MARSALIS, NATALIE COLE, BUDDY GUY, MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD, AL GREEN AND MANY MORE

SEPTEMBER FEST LINE-UP INCLUDES LYLE LOVETT, DAVID BYRNE AND MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED

“...one or two events emerge from the mass of stimulation and linger in the mind after the rest has become a blur...the Aspen festival is a force to be reckoned with." - Jazz Hot Magazine

New York, NY - Elevate your senses this summer in Aspen, Colorado ...

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TD Canada Trust Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival: June 25 - July 4, 2004

Source: All About Jazz
March 25, 2004

Ten days, thirteen nights....over 1,500 musicians will entertain more than 500,000 music lovers during the 18th annual festival. Confirmed guests for this year include Oscar Peterson, George Benson, Wynton Marsalis, the Canadian debut of Stacey Kent, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Bela Fleck and the Fleck Tones, Beady Belle, Blind Boys of Alabama, Thom Gossage & Other Voices, Phat Hed, and more artists to come. Toronto's City Hall once again plays host to the free daytime concerts and the ticketed evening ...

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Jazz Giants Headline Sixth Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
March 22, 2004

HEALDSBURG, Calif. (March 22, 2004) - The North Bay's most celebrated annual musical event, the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, has announced the lineup for its sixth annual festival, to be held from June 5 to 13, 2004. Headlining the Festival will be Roy Haynes, one of the leading figures in the second half-century of jazz, in his only West Coast appearance this year with his hot new band Fountain of Youth plus special guest Kenny Garrett. Other highlights include celebrated saxophone ...

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Earshot Jazz Spring Series

Source: All About Jazz
March 11, 2004

The Earshot Jazz Spring Series, 2004 -- “Springsville"

April has been designated Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) by the Smithsonian Institution and, as always, Earshot Jazz, Seattle's non-profit jazz organization, is more that willing to celebrate jazz as a living, thriving art form.

Earshot has put together a remarkable series of concerts for the month of April, taking the title “Springsville" from a Miles Davis/Gil Evans collaboration. The concerts feature legendary Jazz Masters and some of today's most important established and ...

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