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Savoring Jazz and Wine: 20th Annual Herndon Labor Day Jazz and Wine Festival
Labor Day festival returns for 20th time Visitors to downtown Herndon this Labor Day will have an opportunity to exercise their love for music and Virginia wines if they choose to stop by the 20th Annual Labor Day Jazz and Wine Festival. The six-hour event will feature live performances from area musicians and a wine tasting ...
Millennium Promise and Koch Records Host All-Star Benefit Album Release
Affair to Feature Grammy-Nominated Jazz Great Kirk Whalum & Friends New York, NY - On Monday, September 29, 2008, philanthropic organizations Millennium Promise and Simmons Family Foundation, along with entertainment powerhouse Koch Records will join forces to host the album release party for Promises Made, an all-star benefit jazz album. The event, being held at BB ...
Chris Potter & His Underground @ Chris' Jazz Cafe
Multi-reedman/composer Chris Potter is often cited by critics, musicians, and a steadily increasing number of fans as the finest saxophonist of his generation. Potter has performed with a diverse and heady array of artists, including James Moody, Jim Hall, Marian McPartland, Dave Douglas, Larry Carlton, Steely Dan, and Dave Holland, with whom Chris has been performing ...
Tanglewood Season Closes with Annual Jazz Festival
With the end of August and the upcoming Labor Day holiday, a week of relative repose makes for a natural demarcation point between the musically hyperactive summer festival season and several imminent regional fall chamber and college series, which start up after Labor Day. I'll focus on several of those next week. Though Tanglewood, that colossus ...
Ode to Ornette
Chicago's certified jazz genius talks the deeper meaning of free jazz. By Ken Vandermark EDITOR'S NOTE: In 1959, a 29-year-old Ornette Coleman released his second album for Atlantic (and just his fourth in all), The Shape of Jazz to Come. The title told the simple truth: Coleman thought outside the bop and charted new territory ...
Legend, Rising Star Highlight Tanglewood Jazz Festival
Some critics use chronological age as a crucial standard for measuring talent, just as powerful publicity machines fixate on youth as a prime marketing point for peddling jazz products. But in the real world of the musicians themselves, there isn't any generation gap, no cultural chasm between Old Masters residing atop Mount Olympus and rising New ...
Chicago Jazz Festival Starts Today
Grant Park; Thu 28-Sun 31 When jazz fans scan this year's lineup, two names will jump off the page: Sonny and Ornette. Sonny Rollins (Pritzker Pavilion), who kicks off the fest Thursday night, may be the exemplar of bebop's thorny relationship to its past. At 78, Rollins remains a mercurial and thrilling live performer, refusing to ...
The Next Generation of Jazz
You could say it all began with a blue Porsche. It is what jazz musician Chris Brubeck remembers distinctly about his junior high music teacher Ray Tiezzi, who gave him his first few trombone lessons more than 40 years ago in Connecticut. “It was a cool-looking car -- part of his persona," Brubeck, son of noted ...
Best Bets for the Detroit International Jazz Fest
Detroit and Philadelphia have such similar jazz histories that the cities might well be twins separated at birth. Both reached their zenith of influence in the hard bop 1950s. Both graduated countless players to the national scene. Both produced R&B juggernauts, Motown and Philly soul. The 29th annual Detroit International Jazz Festival, which runs Friday through ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 18, 2008
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Roy Hargrove Earfood (Emarcy) 317 285 +32 1 69 1 5 2 — 3 David Sanborn Here And Gone (Decca) 186 24 +162 20 51 2 3 3 4 2 Cassandra Wilson Loverly (Blue Note) 175 176 -1 2 57 1 10 ...
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