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Vancouver Jazz Fest: Sonny Rollins' Life-Long Search for Excellence
VANCOUVER - Saxophonist Sonny Rollins doesn’t take the Orpheum stage until 8 p.m. Monday, but he’s told the venue that he needs the dressing room by mid-afternoon. That’s because he wants to practise for three hours before he takes the stage. And, if things go the way they did when he appeared here two years ago, ...
Jazz Fest All-Star Lineup Includes Tribute to 'Kind of Blue'
"In the church of jazz, the album 'Kind of Blue' is one of the holy relics," writes Ashley Kahn in “Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece" (DaCapo Press, 2000), one of two books written exclusively about the celebrated album. It is hailed as the best-selling jazz album of all-time and ranked 12th ...
Stanford Jazz Festival Returns for Its 38th Year
At the age of 84, James Moody may be the oldest musician performing at the 38th annual Stanford Jazz Festival, which he opens on Friday at Dinkelspiel Auditorium. But there's not a player on the festival's program with a more youthful spirit. In a career stretching back to the mid-1940s, when he first gained attention in ...
Is Jazz Dead?: Stretching the Festival Definition of Jazz
With Canadian summer jazz festivals featuring everything from the gospel sounds of The Sojourners and straight-ahead jazz saxophonist David Sanborn to Nigerian superstar King Sunny Ade & His African Beats, the definition of jazz has become fluid. Okay, so here's another question: What is jazz? And another: Is jazz a meaningless term? Or even: Is jazz ...
Info-Festival - Thursday, June 25, 2009
Official opening in 4 days! Only five days remain before the opening of the 30th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, which will be held from Tuesday, June 30 to Sunday, July 12, 2009! The press room-the heart of the Festival New this year, the Festival press room is located in the Maison ...
Reggae Rising Artist Additions
Reggae Rising Music Festival Announces Lineup By Day Plus New Additions Toots and the Maytals Reggae Rising Music Festival is proud to announce our latest lineup additions (Toots and the Maytals, Sister Carol, Rebelution and DeMarco) plus artist lineup by day, the all new late night dancehall “Club Umoja" with special appearances by Million Stylez, Norrisman, ...
Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival, September 22-26, 2009
Now in its ninth year, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival—Boston's largest and most popular outdoor festival—has expanded to five days and seven stages at locations in Boston and Cambridge, and has named world-renowned drummer and Berklee professor Terri Lyne Carrington its new artistic director. From September 22 to 26, superstars and local artists will come together ...
Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival Wraps up Spectacular Record-Setting 8th Edition
Mark Your Calendars for the Ninth Edition, June 11-19, 2010 Rochester, NY--The 8th Annual Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival presented by M&T Bank wrapped up a spectacular nine days of music presented by some of the world’s greatest artists. Attendance this year was 133,000 topping last’s year’s record of 125,000 and marking the seventh straight year ...
Ron Della Chiesa: Aficionado Hosts Friday Night Jazz Festival Concerts
George Wein and his jazz festivals have been a tradition in Newport for the past 55 years, but there's another mainstay that music lovers have come to anticipate--Ron Della Chiesa as the host of the Friday night concert at the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino, 194 Bellevue Avenue. This year, Della Chiesa ...
Vico Jazz Festival in Naples
One of the most eagerly anticipated annual musical events in Naples is set to make its return to the city in just a few weeks. Now in its eighth year, Vico Jazz aims to promote the art for on a national and international scale and has worked hard over the last few years to set up ...
