Jazz News

Big Easy's Jazz Therapy

Source: All About Jazz
May 6, 2006

Before closing out the first weekend of the 2006 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Bruce Springsteen took a tour. “I think I saw sights I never thought I'd see in an American city," he says Sunday, April 30, after visiting neighborhoods ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. “This is what happens when people play political games with people's lives." It was a sobering comment, but Springsteen's performance was anything but. The Boss was in a party-throwing mood, cranking out two hours ...

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Spirit of New Orleans alive and thriving at jazz festival

Source: All About Jazz
May 6, 2006

NEW ORLEANS -- Less than two blocks from the Gentilly Boulevard entrance to the 37th annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival at the city's Fair Grounds -- and the first since Hurricane Katrina -- there are the merest of hints of the devastation wrought last August. The side of a nearby home remains blown away; all that remains of a bathroom is a toilet exposed to the elements. Inside New Orleans' Fair Grounds over the past weekend, however, the ...

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The New Haven Jazz Festival Announces its 25th Anniversary Lineup

Source: All About Jazz
May 6, 2006

(New Haven, Conn.) -- How would you celebrate 25 years of live, free Jazz? If you said world-class performers, a special pyrotechnics display, celebrity guest appearances and even more live jazz--then you'd be talking about the 25th Anniversary of the New Haven Jazz Festival. Each year the New Haven Jazz Festival brings a roundup of Grammy award-winning performers free to the City's historic Green. And this year get ready for a Jazz Fest that you'll be talking about for another ...

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City may rename park to honor jazz great Brubeck

Source: All About Jazz
May 6, 2006

CONCORD: Native son will be honored by the State Senate next week A Concord park may soon bear the name of one of the city's most famous natives, jazz genius Dave Brubeck. The City Council on Tuesday will consider renaming Concord Boulevard Neighborhood Park the Dave Brubeck Park . Brubeck performed at the park during the early years of the Concord Jazz Festival -- an event that made the city a music destination and inspired the construction of the Concord ...

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Rivertown Jazz & Arts Festival set for today in historic Conway, SC

Source: All About Jazz
May 6, 2006

The 20th annual Rivertown Jazz & Arts Festival (formerly Rivertown Jazz and Blues Festival) kicks off with a day of music, art, children's activities and food from 11 a.m.-midnight today in the historic district of Conway. National talent headlining this year's festival includes John Scofield Trio, the Adande Drum & Dance Company and blues artist Ray Bonneville. The festival also shows off local talent with Arlin Strader Trio, Slip Stream and Painted Man. Visitors can also expect the Live Oak ...

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Jazz festival steals home with new venue

Source: All About Jazz
May 6, 2006

The Sacramento Jazz Jubilee will get a big new venue this year; officials Friday said that Raley Field in West Sacramento will be the home for some performances at the popular Memorial Day weekend event. The 33rd annual festival, expected to draw 100,000 people, will be more compact this time around, giving up stages in Point West and adding three West Sacramento sites to the downtown and Old Sacramento venues. The addition of the ballpark not only adds a stage, ...

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Sanofi-Aventis JazzFest 2006 in Madison, NJ

Source: All About Jazz
May 6, 2006

New Jersey Jazz Society presents the sanofi-aventis JazzFest 2006, on the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ, on Saturday and Sunday, June 10 and 11. A portion of the profits have been earmarked to help jazz musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina.

The music begins at 11 am each day and runs until 5 pm in three covered venues, including one with a dance floor, On Saturday, the featured artists are singer Jackie Cain, the Bill Charlap Trio, the ...

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Myra Hindus Appointed Berklee's First Vice President for Cultural Diversity

Source: All About Jazz
May 6, 2006

Berklee President Roger Brown announced the appointment of Myra Hindus to the newly created position of Vice President for Cultural Diversity. At Berklee, she will lead and oversee the diversity strategy of the college. Hindus will be focusing on four areas of development for the college: curriculum review and creating more diversity related curriculum; faculty and staff recruitment issues; student recruitment and retention; and promoting awareness and training on diversity.

Said President Brown, “Myra Hindus is an experienced change agent. ...

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