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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2017
The Montreal International Jazz Festival has just concluded its 38th year. I've been fortunate to have attended more than 30 of them and this year ranked among the best. I've covered the event as a photographer for All About Jazz since 2011. The festival is a total music immersion experience presenting some 600 concerts over the ...
read moreFestival International de Jazz de Montréal 2017: July 3-4
Festival International de Jazz de Montréal
Montréal, Canada
July 3-4, 2017
July 3-4 | July 5-6 | July 7-8
It is a pleasure to be back in Montreal for what many have called “the best jazz festival in the world" (saxophonist Joshua Redman said so last night on ...
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2017
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival
Saratoga Springs, NY
June 24-25, 2017
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival celebrated its 40th anniversary this year and it was done in fine fashion. Acts from the very first festival in 1978 (A George Wein creation) appeared, as well as young up-and-coming artists. The ...
SFJAZZ Collective: Remembering Miles
The SFJAZZ Collective has been operating since 2004. In the beginning, it may have seemed to some as just another all-star collection of musicians who strut their stuff for a while, then go about their own business. It has shown over time it is much different.
The format--eight outstanding musicians banding together to play ...
Wayne Shorter Quartet at SFJAZZ
Wayne Shorter Quartet
SFJAZZ
Spring Season
San Francisco, California
April 27, 2017
To jazz fans Wayne Shorter needs no introduction. That evening, the first of a three-night stand at SFJAZZ, Director Randall Kline referred to him as “possibly the greatest composer in jazz" which is not an overstatement. For Shorter, ...
Chick Corea: The Musician
As people age, it's not uncommon to commemorate birthday milestones--specifically, those marking the passing of decades--with special celebrations, ranging from parties to vacations. In most cases, however, these festivities are private events, restricted to family and friends.
Not Chick Corea.
When this renowned pianist/keyboardist, composer, bandleader and guest participant in countless projects ...
Festival International de Jazz de Port-au-Prince, 2017 - Part 1
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Festival International de Jazz de Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
March 4-11, 2017
Haiti: the only nation in the world established as the result of a slave revolt; home of Vodou. Haiti: poorest country in the Western Hemisphere; subject to devastating hurricanes and earthquakes. Most potential visitors ...
Johnaye Kendrick: In The Deepest Way Possible
Since arriving in Seattle, Johnaye Kendrick has enriched the Seattle jazz community with her performances, recordings, and as Associate Professor of Jazz Voice at the prestigious Cornish College of the Arts, as a mentor to her many students. Her vocal style is centered in the jazz and blues tradition, but embellished by her own interpretation based ...
read morePanama Jazz Festival 2017
Panama Jazz Festival
Ciudad del Saber, Republic of Panama
January 10-14, 2017
In terms of the number of marquee musicians it features over the course of five days, the annual Panama Jazz Festival is far from being in the big leagues of similar events in Latin American. That, however, only tells part ...
2016: The Year in Jazz
The year 2016 bubbled with events and initiatives to strengthen jazz's place in American and world culture, as well as a variety of venue openings, closings and cancellations. Jazz hit the silver screen in many ways throughout the year, and International Jazz Day continued to thrive--complete with a major all-star concert at the White House. Pop ...
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