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Stevie Wonder Was the Headliner Saturday at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Tennessee.
The aspirations and survival tactics of the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, the annual four-day marathon of musical overload and muddy shoes, were neatly summed up in its headliners this year: a jam band, current hitmakers and a longtime pop giant. They balanced Bonnaroo's neo-hippie aura with attention to the present. The headliner on Saturday was ...
Valamar Jazz Festival in Porec (Croatia)
Soak up the sounds of summer at Istria's first international jazz festival this July. Famed artists such as Dianna Reeves and Dave Holland will perform under the stars in a series of open-air concerts on the beautiful island of St. Nikola, followed by a lavish party at the elegant Villa Polesini. Main program: Island Sveti Nikola, ...
Pow!: Undead Jazzfest
I started Inverted Garden to join a conversation that I heard increasing in volume and seriousness: namely, how to “revive" jazz. For the last 40 years, the imminent death of jazz has been oft foretold, and while much of the doomsaying has been nothing more than Chicken Little-ism, it does seem true that the jazz audience ...
Ojai's Music Fest is a Tuneful Blend of Old, New and Frank Zappa
Don't let the quaint setting fool you. From June 10 to 13, Ojais Libbey Bowla simple band shell with seating for a scant 1,400 listeners on old wooden benches and a lawnwill be the venue for distinguished musicians from all over the world. They'll be showcasing new, classic and seldom heard works, joining in a legacy ...
The 'It' Girl of Jazz, Spalding Returns to Playboy Jazz Fest
At age 25, it might feel like a bit too much pressure to be considered the “future of jazz," but Esperanza Spalding, who is part of the Sunday lineup at this weekend's Playboy Jazz Festival, carries herself with the kind of grace and poise that belies her years. The native Oregonian (she's from Portland) is back ...
On the Horns of Abundance: Jazz Festivals Resound
An extraordinary amount of jazz hits New York over the next two weeks: four festivals, about 150 sets, and much of it extracurricular to the usual riches at the clubs. Its a time of marathons and breadth and goes in heavy for the new: not just youth, but also new aesthetic combinations, new attitudes toward repertory, ...
On the Horns of Abundance: Jazz Festivals Resound
AN extraordinary amount of jazz hits New York over the next two weeks: four festivals, about 150 sets, and much of it extracurricular to the usual riches at the clubs. It's a time of marathons and breadth and goes in heavy for the new: not just youth, but also new aesthetic combinations, new attitudes toward repertory, ...
Strong Line-up Opens Jamaica International Ocho Rios Jazz Festival
A strong line-up of vocalists, instrumentalists mark the opening of the 20th Anniversary of the Ocho Rios International Jazz Festival beginning this Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 6:00 pm in the verdant gardens of the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. The across-the-island week of jazz in tribute to Festival founder the late Cecil “Sonny" Bradshaw, will seed arguably ...
Montreal Gears up for Its 2010 Jazz Festival
Montreal's winters may be unforgiving exercises in cold weather survival, but the city blooms once the thaw begins. It hosts a number of festivals each summer, but the biggest and best is Festival International de Jazz de Montral, now in its 31st year. Past headliners include Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Antnio Carlos Jobim, Diana Krall, Wayne ...
Stockholm Jazz Festival 2010: A Sneak Peek
By James Pearse Stockholm Jazz Festival Skeppsholmen, Stockholm June 10-12, 2010 Despite being in its fourth decade of existence, the Stockholm Jazz Festival is still looking rather sprightly. A quick look at the program is enough to understand why it has become one of city's most popular annual music events. The thinking ...
