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Master-Jam Fest - International Festival Invites Jazz Improvisers!

Source: Mazur
August 7, 2012

The International Festival-Contest of Jazz Improvisation Skills “Master-Jam Fest" from Odessa ("a jazz capital" of Ukraine, cultural & touristic center near Black Sea) has started an online preselection of jazz musicians, improvisers. It was founded by Mikhail Freidlin, the well-known author and producer of the legendary “Jazz Carnival in Odessa" in Ukraine and abroad. Master Jam Fest is a conceptually new festival-competition of jazz improvisation skills, based on the principles of a jam session! Final of this enchanting holiday will ...

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The Inaugural South Bend Jazz Festival To Be Held On Saturday, August 25th

Source: Lampkin Publicity Service
August 4, 2012

Downtown South Bend Inc, is proud to announce, The Inaugural South Bend Jazz Festival, on Saturday, August 25th, 2012. From conception to discussions with the Festival advisory board this spring, Artistic Director, Saxophonist Danny Lerman, has been working on presenting a special European- style Jazz Festival to the hometown audiences of South Bend, Indiana. The festival will be held on Saturday, August 25th, from 12 noon till 12 midnight on four different stages, in addition to a Jazz Jam from ...

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Tedeschi Trucks Band To Play 2-hour Set At Newport Jazz Festival Sunday, 5pm

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
August 2, 2012

Tedeschi Trucks Band to Perform Full 2-hour Set to Close 2012 Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global Asset Management Sunday, August 5, 5:00 pm Newport Jazz Festival® Produced by Newport Festivals Foundation Takes Over International Tennis Hall of Fame at Newport Casino and Fort Adams State Park August 3 – 5, 2012 NEWPORT, RI: The stellar 11-piece Tedeschi Trucks Band will make its only New England appearance this summer when it closes this year’s Newport Jazz Festival® presented by ...

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Ira Gitler on the Ystad Jazz Festival

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
August 1, 2012

The 2012 Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival opens on Thursday and will feature a wide range of Swedish, European and American jazz artists. Artistic director and pianist Jan Lundgren [pictured above] will be performing, along with Eliane Elias, Billy Harper, Hiromi Uehara and others. On Sunday—the festival's last day—there will be a tribute to Quincy Jones, who first performed in Sweden in 1953. He will be interviewed by Doug Ramsey. All of which brought back fond memories for jazz writer and ...

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6th Annual Blues For Food Fest Saturday September 1 Magnuson Park

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 31, 2012

BLUES FOR FOOD FEST 2012: Sixth annual Labor Day weekend event celebrates community, food and music. Saturday, September 1, 12 noon-9:00 pm at Magnuson Park Amphitheatre & P-Patch, 7400 Sand Point Way N.E., Seattle 98115 Proceeds support P-Patch Trust and Washington Blues Society WHAT IS BLUES FOR FOOD FEST? - An all-ages all-day celebration of good friends, good food and good music, featuring some of the finest blues bands in the Northwest. - A community party ...

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Newport Jazz Festival 2012: A Celebration of Diversity

Source: Watch Jazz Happen by Dan Kassell
July 26, 2012

Tickets are selling briskly for the 2012 Newport Jazz Festival! To everyone’s surprise last year, the festivals ended with a surplus of several hundred thousand dollars, after the Newport Festivals Foundation invested $3 million in both festivals, the Associated Press reported. What was the impetus for setting up a nonprofit foundation? In a phone interview prior to last years' jazz festival George Wein explained, “The only way to get help is to go not-for-profit. I'm working pro-bono, it has nothing ...

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Nice Jazz Festival to Launch Miami Edition October 2012

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 22, 2012

The Miami Nice Jazz Festival, an extension of the internationally celebrated Nice France Jazz Festival, one of Europe’s largest and most significant jazz events of its kind, is scheduled to take place for the first time in the United States this fall. The festival, finding its stateside home in downtown Miami, will be a three day jazz celebration beginning on October 26, 2012. The first Miami Nice Jazz Festival is a partnership between Sister Cities Nice, France and Miami, Florida, ...

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Post-Dispatch Reports Plans for David Sanborn Jazz Festival in St. Louis

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
July 20, 2012

This just in:The St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Kevin Johnson has reported that plans are underway for a new jazz festival in St. Louis. The event would bear the name of, and be headlined by, saxophonist and St. Louis native David Sanborn (pictured) and would take place in September 2013 in the Grand Center neighborhood. The story reports that the proposed David Sanborn Jazz Festival could run from one to three days, including both free outdoor shows and ticketed indoor concerts. The ...

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