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52nd Monterey Jazz Festival Presents Best of Old and New
by Larry Taylor
52nd Annual Monterey Jazz FestivalMonterey FairgroundsMonterey, CaliforniaSeptember 18-20, 2009 Three Generations of Pianists, a celebration of piano jazz, spotlighting a family of greats from Jason Moran through Dave Brubeck, highlighted the 2009 Monterey Jazz Festival at Monterey County Fairgrounds in Northern California. And surprisingly, celebrated folk legend Pete Seeger got ...
Jazz Middelheim 2009
by Martin Longley
Jazz Middelheim 2009Park Den BrandtAntwerpenBelgium The Jazz Middelheim festival is nearing its fortieth anniversary, but it's a weekender that hasn't relinquished a fondness for adventure. Nuzzling up against its stellar bookings are acts, Belgian and otherwise, who seek to jolt the expectations of many audience members. The entertaining middle way ...
Trumpeter Theo Croker Interviewed at AAJ
If you've never seen Theo Croker before, he's a pretty easy one to spot. He's the one with the trumpet by his side at all times. The neat dreadlocks and mischievous glint in his eye are also dead giveaways. Having grown up in the U.S. in a musically oriented family, Croker was introduced to the world ...
Theo Croker: Ace of Trumps
by Jenn Chan Lyman
If you've never seen Theo Croker before, he's a pretty easy one to spot. He's the one with the trumpet by his side at all times. The neat dreadlocks and mischievous glint in his eye are also dead giveaways. Having grown up in the U.S. in a musically oriented family, Croker was introduced to the world ...
52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival
The 52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival presented by Verizon will take place at the Monterey Fairgrounds, September 18 - 20, 2009 with over 500 artists performing on 9 stages for 3 nights and 2 days of the world's best jazz, spread throughout the Festival's 20 acres of magnificent grounds. The Arena/Jimmy Lyons Stage The ...
Gent Jazz Festival 2009: Days 1-5
by Martin Longley
The Gent Jazz Festival 2009 Bijloke Gent, BelgiumJuly 8: B.B. King/China Moses & Raphael LemonnierMaybe this year's festival, running July 8-19, is going to peak too soon. In 2006, B.B. King (or his management) decided that he wasn't going to tour again outside of North America, thereby filling seats up on a “farewell" European ...
Le Jazz de Paris Avec Amour
Autumn in Paris Alive with Sounds of Jazz There are are few countries in the world to rival France in its respect for Jazz as an art form and for Jazz Musicians. Many of the leading exponents, particularly American musicians, have found both temporary and permanent homes there, enhancing both their artistic and personal lives in ...
Jacksonville: Big City, Big Band, Big Plans
by Jack Bowers
Almost everyone who's even mildly interested knows that the big band scene in the US isn't what it used to be. On the other hand, the big bands aren't yet dead, as some alarmists have claimed, or even on life support. Thanks in part to college and armed services programs, there are perhaps as many or ...
AT&T San Jose Jazz Festival Continues Tradition of Great Music, Family Fun, and Affordability
San Jose Jazz announced the annual AT&T San Jose Jazz Festival to be presented August 7-9 in downtown San Jose. From Friday afternoon to Sunday evening, music lovers will converge on the heart of Silicon Valley to enjoy three days of jazz, blues, salsa, Latin, R&B, electronica and many other forms of contemporary music. The festival ...
A Blog Supreme: A New Jazz Blog from NPR Music
New jazz blog from NPR Music shares “driving passion" for jazz music, culture NPR Music announces the launch of “A Blog Supreme"--a running journal driven by a passion for jazz music and culture. It's a place for MP3s of rising jazz stars and full concerts with legends; for comments, interviews and recommendations; and most of all: ...
