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SF Stern Grove 2010 Lineup

June 16, 2010

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, MACEO PARKER IN THIS YEAR'S LINEUP They Might Be Giants Magical moments happen regularly at Stern Grove Festival, San Francisco's long-running admission-free outdoor performing arts festival. The 73rd Stern Grove Festival takes place Sundays at 2:00 p.m., June 20-August 22, 2010 (Sigmund Stern Grove, 19th Ave. & Sloat Blvd., San Francisco; ...

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Playboy Jazz Festival, Day 2

June 15, 2010

It's dangerous to speculate which program of the two-day Playboy Jazz Festival will be the better one just by glancing at the lineup. Most of the time, you will be wrong. Someone might be having an off-day, one act doesn't flow comfortably into the next, an overlooked veteran or a newcomer will suddenly get hot, the ...

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A Movable Feast of a Festival

June 15, 2010

The best way to fight a pervasive assumption is to pretend it doesn't exist. The organizers of the first Undead Jazzfest, which ran Saturday and Sunday night at three clubs in the center of the West Village. Le Poisson Rouge, Sullivan Hall, and Kenny's Castaways are not necessarily hostile to the idea that jazz audiences like ...

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Playboy Jazz Festival Has the Bowl Jumpin'

June 14, 2010

“Who's got some extra suntan oil, man?" asked singer and unflappably cool customer Kurt Elling from the stage Saturday at the 32nd annual Playboy Jazz Festival. Marking his first appearance at the festival, the sharply dressed Elling had just finished a spry cover of Joe Jackson's “Steppin' Out," and the temperatures were climbing. “You look good ...

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The Smooth Jazz Cruise Becomes Title Sponsor of the 2011 Seabreeze Jazz Festival

June 14, 2010

St. Louis, MO: Jazz Cruises, LLC, the St. Louis-based producer of jazz themed cruise vacation experiences, is proud to announce that it has become the title sponsor of the 2011 Seabreeze Jazz Festival under The Smooth Jazz Cruise brand. One of the biggest weekend festivals in contemporary jazz in the U.S., the Panama City, Florida event ...

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31 Years... and the Celebration Continues with a Record Number of Free Performances!

June 14, 2010

Montreal -- Yes, the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, presented by TD in collaboration with Rio Tinto Alcan, celebrated its three-decade existence last year... but with this new fanfare of festivities, you might think the celebrations had never ended! Not only is this 31st edition of the Festival readier than ever to host high-profile guests, ...

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Ensemble Timbre Invention.

June 14, 2010

One of the highlights of Vision Fest, to me is the array of unique larger ensembles that convene each year. These rarely tour or even perform in New York. I've gathered a few examples to give a sense of it but there are many more involving younger people I haven't had time to discover. 6/22 DROM, ...

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Stevie Wonder Was the Headliner Saturday at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Tennessee.

June 14, 2010

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 ...

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Valamar Jazz Festival in Porec (Croatia)

June 12, 2010

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, ...

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Pow!: Undead Jazzfest

June 12, 2010

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 ...