Always at the forefront of modern jazz, the one-and-only Monterey Jazz Festival has taken to the road with a roster of musical heavyweights representing today's very best including: nine-time Grammy-nominated and NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron on piano; Grammy-nominated Regina Carter on violin; Grammy winner Russell Malone on guitar; Grammy-winning vocalist Kurt Elling; bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and Grammy-nominated Johnathan Blake on drums. This impressive ensemble, Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour, makes a stop at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California, April 24 in the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall.
Members of this tour have a special relationship with the Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF) and each bring distinctive artistry to the stage in their own sets and in the kind of electrifying jams that generations of Monterey fans have come to cherish. Barron made his first eight appearances at MJF in the early 1960s with Dizzy Gillespie and Carter was selected as Artist-In-Residence for MJF in 2004 and has appeared at the Festival four times.
Elling, also selected as Artist-In-Residence for MJF in 2006, has also performed on the stages of the Festival four times. Malone has appeared five times and both Kitagawa and Blake have performed at MJF two times.
Tickets to see the Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour start at $26 and are available at OCPAC.org, at the Center's Box Office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa or by calling 714.556.2787.
For inquiries about group ticket discounts for 15 or more, call the Group Services office at 714.755.0236. The TTY number is 714.556.2746.
