Festival News

Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2004

Source: All About Jazz
March 11, 2004

Boston Symphony Orchestra Announces Lineup for 2004 Tanglewood Jazz Festival September 3-5 Lenox, Massachusetts

Featured Performers Include Harry Connick, Jr., Branford Marsalis Quartet, Dave Brubeck Quartet & Symphonette, Marian McPartland, Eliane Elias, Eddie Palmieri and La Perfecta II, Doug Wamble Quartet, Miquel Zenon Quartet

Tickets on Sale: Sunday, March 14, 10 am

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced the lineup for its annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival to be held September 3-5 ...

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8th Annual 'Superfly During Jazzfest' Concert Series

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2004

Superfly Productions is proud to announce its 8th annual “Superfly during JazzFest" concert series. Series events will take place from Friday, April 23 through Sunday, May 2 at several venues throughout New Orleans, including the State Palace Theatre, the Orpheum Theatre, Twi-Ro-Pa, the Mermaid Lounge, and the Riverboat Cajun Queen. Confirmed shows are listed below, with additional shows to be announced soon.

The 2004 Superfly during JazzFest concert series presents local and national talent from a colorful array of genres, ...

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2nd Annual 'Lady Got Chops' Women's Month Jazz Festival @ the Jazz Spot

Source: All About Jazz
February 15, 2004

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Smalls Records Announces New Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
February 13, 2004

Come celebrate our launch and our current and upcoming artist releases at the Smalls Records Jazz Festival!

Wed Feb 18th thru Sat Feb 21st

Fat Cat Jazz Club 75 Christopher Street (west of 7th Ave) (212) 675-7369 Subway: #1/9 : Christopher Street; ACDEFQ : W 4th St. http://www.fatcatjazz.com

$10 music charge, $5 minimum all night.

NEW format / two SPECIAL nights FIVE bands each night / NON-STOP jazz

Wednesday February ...

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Jazz Od Nowa Festival in Torun, Poland

Source: All About Jazz
February 11, 2004

Jazz Od Nowa Festival in Torun is one of the most interesting jazz events in Poland. Maybe it is not the biggest jazz festival in this country but it's a special one: organised by young people, with great atmosphere. The main idea of this festival is to show different “colours" of jazz. On its stage you can hear classical jazz and young, modern artists as well. Jazz Od Nowa Festival, Torun, Poland 20-21 February 2004 www.odnowa.umk.pl Friday 02.20.2004, 8.00 pm ...

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Jazz Festival in "El Tambo" Punta del Este, Uruguay

Source: All About Jazz
February 4, 2004

In spite of the difficult economic situation in which (for a change!) Argentina and Uruguay are going through, the enthusiastic impresario Francisco Yobino managed to present with much success the 9th edition of the Festival International de jazz de Punta del Este, in his gorgeous “Tambo (dairy farm) El Sosiego".

The annual event opened on January 9th with the release of trumpeter Diego Urcola's new recording Soundances; and for the next three days, presented on its wonderful outdoors stage, jazz ...

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Southeastern Louisiana University to Host Third Annual Bill Evans Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
January 25, 2004

Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, will host the Third Annual Bill Evans Jazz Festival March 4 - 6. Featured this year on the final night will be the Kenny Werner Trio. Last year, the Eddie Gomez Trio closed the three day event.

Three years ago, Dr. David Evenson, Chair of the Department of Music at Southeastern, established the jazz festival in the name of its most famous graduate, Bill Evans. Evans was a 1950 cum laude graduate of the ...

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The Litchfield Jazz Festival Announces August 6 - 8 Lineup

Source: All About Jazz
January 17, 2004

The Litchfield Jazz Festival announces the lineup for its 9th season as “the festival that stands tall in substance among the larger and longer-known festival around the nation." (Wall Street Journal) When asked by the Journal what makes this jazz festival differentother jazz fesival, Vita Muir, its founder and artistic director, replied, “Its a jazz festival." Taking a look at its 9th season, the reader might feel that's an understatement. The August 6 - 8 festival will be held at ...

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