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Guitarists Are Choice Picks at CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival
Freelance Writer Eugene Holley, Jr. takes a look at a new generation of guitarists performing at CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival NEWPORT, RI--In Oklahoma in the 1930s, Charlie Christian plugged in, and was the first to swing the body electric. Half a world away, an inventive Belgian Gypsy with a battle-scarred hand named Django Reinhardt put his ...
CareFusion Jazz Festival New York Reaches Over 23,000 Fans
CareFusion Jazz Festival New York Found New Fans, New Friends and Renewed Faith in the Future of Jazz NEW YORK, July 20, 2010--Jazz reared her beautiful head June 17-26 and more than 23,000 people turned out to greet her when the CareFusion Jazz Festival New York presented 45 concerts at 20 venues throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens ...
1st Kalamata (Greece) Jazz Festival
Kalamata's first ever summer jazz festival! Amazing musicians from Greece, Holland, Bulgaria, Serbia, Sweden, New York and Mani come together to celebrate good music and groove! Miyagis' Dream, Freak Brothers Band, Harris Lambrakis Quartet, Tzoum, Dimitris Pantelias Group, Blazin' Quartet from Amsterdam and the enigmatic NOW vs. NOW with Jason Lindner, Panagiotis Andreou and Mark Guiliana ...
Mario Pavone Orange Double Tenor at Litchfield Jazz Festival August 7th
One month from tonight, veteran bassist/composer Mario Pavone will perform at the Litchfield Jazz Festival with his newest ensemble, Orange Double Tenor. The group, which features trumpeter Dave Ballou, tenor saxophonists Tony Malaby and Jimmy Greene, pianist Peter Madsen and drummer Gerald Cleaver, will play Pavone's new extended work, ARC SUITE T/PI T/PO. This is only ...
Greater Hartford Jazz Festival Strikes A Chord With Music Lovers
HARTFORD--Bushnell Park was filled with the sounds of jazz in the summer sun Sunday as the three-day Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz brought thousands of music lovers to the capital city. Bands belted out songs on a stage near the Memorial Arch as vendors nearby sold everything from hats and handbags to shirts and jewelry. The ...
Django Reinhardt's gypsy rhythms live on
The Edinburgh Jazz Festival celebrates the guitarist a century after his birth. If there's a gig at any jazz festival which is guaranteed to attract and delight punters who ordinarily wouldn't touch jazz with a five-foot pole, it's the one with the Django Reinhardt-inspired band. Thanks to the fact that, over the last 25 years, the ...
Ladies Sing the Blues Cruise--Carnival Cruise Lines - Triumph will depart New Orleans, LA on 12/6
LADIES SING THE BLUES CRUISE December 6, 2010--December 11, 2010 Carnival Cruise Lines--TRIUMPH, New Orleans, LA Carnival Cruise Lines--Triumph will depart New Orleans, LA on 12/6--11/2010 with Jomar Records recording artist Pat Hunter “National Woman in Blues, Vol 1" on board as one of the three featured female performers on this 'blues cruise.' Miss Hunter's ...
Charter Cruise Consultants Realizing Dreams Upon the Seas
Charter Cruise Consultants realizing dreams upon the seas New venture guides theme cruises from conception to execution St. Louis, MO: A collective of veteran cruise planners with over fifty years of combined experience have formed Charter Cruise Consultants to develop and guide theme cruises for full ship and large group charters. The principals, who together ...
Brubeck's Newport Magic
Every time Dave Brubeck plays the Newport Jazz Festival, he breaks his own record. The pianist, who will turn 90 this December 6, has performed at Newport more than any other jazz artist in the festival's storied, sometimes roller coaster history. He was there for the first festival in 1954--and has been back more than 30 ...
Director Polanski appears at Swiss jazz fest
MONTREUX, Switzerland--The film director Roman Polanski, free after nine months of detention, arrived Saturday at the Montreux Jazz Festival in his first public appearance since being released this week from house arrest. Polanski, 76, arrived Saturday evening in a sport utility vehicle with tinted windows. When he emerged, he brushed his fingers through his hair--a trademark ...
