Rochester International Jazz Festival in Review

Source: ALL ABOUT JAZZ
June 17, 2007
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The Jazz Session brought you more than 7 hours of coverage and more than two dozen interviews from this year's Rochester International Jazz Festival. Here's a list of the week's guests:

Festival producers John Nugent & Marc Iacona
Trumpeter Mike Catone
Jazz broadcaster Gary O
Festival staffer Bob Madeira
Vidar Brathen of the Norwegian Jazz Forum
Bengt Strokirk of Concerts Sweden
Norway's Zanussi Five
Trumpeter Saskia Laroo
Trumpeter Peter Asplund
Canadian Afrobeat band Mr. Something Something
Trombonist Robin Eubanks
Lisa Nordstrom from Midaircondo
Pianist Dino Losito
Drummer Mike Melito
Drummer Matt Wilson
Guitarist Mel Henderson of Paradigm Shift
Pianist Jason Moran
Clarinetist Don Byron
Andy Milne and John Moon from Dapp Theory
Greg, Seth and Ken from the jazz blogosphere

And here's the complete list of shows (not counting the Quick Hits moblogging entries):

About the show: The Jazz Session

The Jazz Session is a jazz interview podcast featuring conversations with musicians, writers, broadcasters, podcasters and more. The show is hosted by All About Jazz contributor and longtime radio broadcaster Jason Crane. The show is available at thejazzsession.com or in iTunes.

About the host: Jason Crane

Jason Crane was born in 1973 in Lenox, Massachusetts, home of Tanglewood and former home of the famed Music Inn and the Lenox School of Jazz. His professional career has covered a lot of bases -- and a lot of the world. He began as a full-time soprano sax player in jazz, latin jazz and funk bands in Arizona, South Carolina and Pennsylvania. Crane also worked as an on-air host for KUAT (classical) and KUAZ (jazz) in Tucson; as a news announcer for Bloomberg Radio in Tokyo; and as Tokyo business correspondent for NPR's Morning Edition.

From 2001-2004, Crane was station manager and jazz host at Jazz90.1 in Rochester, NY, where he interviewed more than 200 jazz artists, including: Claudia Acuna, Ben Allison, Karrin Allyson, Billy Bang, David Berkman, Gene Bertoncini, Bill Bruford, Jack DeJohnette, Kahil El'Zabar, Marty Erlich, Wycliffe Gordon, Benny Green, Fred Hersch, Bill Holman, Charlie Hunter, Norah Jones, Don Lanphere, Joe Locke, Les McCann, Bobby McFerrin, Ben Monder, Jane Monheit, David “Fathead" Newman, Houston Person, Bobby Previte, David Sanborn, John Scofield, Curtis Steigers, Tierney Sutton, Cuong Vu, Bobby Watson, Fred Wesley, Matt Wilson, and Nancy Wilson.

After leaving Jazz90.1, Crane hosted the radio and podcast versions of The Jason Crane Show, an interview show about the arts and activism.

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