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Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Members of 2009 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra
22 High School Musicians From 6 States Comprise MJF's Renowned National Big Band NGJO To Perform On 10-Day US Tour from Kansas City To Washington DC's Kennedy Center, July 5 - 15, 2009 NGJO Performs With Wynton Marsalis At 52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, Premiering Winning Piece By Next Generation Festival’s Composition Competition Winner Andy Clausen ...
Kermit Ruffins: Shake and Bake
By: Jim Welte There's only one thing that New Orleans jazz man Kermit Ruffins handles better than a trumpet - a barbecue. And if that barbecue happens to have a smoker with a handle shaped like a trumpet? Fuhgeddaboutit. Ruffins' barbecue, so big that it's attached to a hitch hooked onto the back of his pickup ...
First Acts Announced for Ornette Coleman's Meltdown
Following weeks of speculation about the acts that curator Ornette Coleman would select to include in his Meltdown, which begins at London's Southbank on Saturday June 13th, the mystery is almost over. With more acts still to be revealed, those already announced have raised eyebrows and set pulses racing. Despite Coleman being the festival's first jazz ...
Shakori Hills Festival | 04.16-04.19 | N.C.
Words & Images by: Stratton Lawrence Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance :: 04.16.09 - 04.19.09 :: Silk Hope, NC Shakori Hills Fest 2009 “There are only a few days of the year like this, where you don't even notice the weather," said Amy LaVere to her enthusiastic Saturday night crowd at Shakori ...
Esquizito Presents the "Why Not Call It Music" Festival in New Orleans
Sunday, April 26 through Sunday, May 3, 2009 in New Orleans @ Maison Musique... Esquizito's home @ the crossroads of three historic neighborhoods: the Bywater, the Marigny and the Faubourg St. Roch 1018 Music Street (between St. Claude and N. Rampart) Think you've seen it all and heard it all in New Orleans? Come hear the ...
The Lost Jazz Shrines Series at the Tribeca PAC
BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center Presents: LOST JAZZ SHRINES Celebrating The Legendary Bradley’s May 8 Ray Drummond – The Art of The Duo Part I with special guests Renee Rosnes, Barry Harris + Bill May May 15 A Tribute To John Hicks with The John Hicks Legacy Band with Elise ...
JazzAscona Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary: June 25 - July 5, 2009
We are excited to announce some of the first musicians and performances scheduled for JazzAscona 2009, one of the most significant jazz events in Europe: Homage to the legendary Kansas City singer and “king of blues & rock 'n' roll Big Joe Turner by soul-jazz stars Bernard Pretty Purdie, Reuben Wilson & friends; tributes, one hundred ...
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival: The Rebirth Brass Brand, Galactic and More
The Rebirth Brass Band, wearing identical green Rebirth T-shirts, stood in the bright Saturday sun on the second day of this years New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The front line of three trumpets, two trombones and a tenor saxophonist was backed by a rub-board player, a bass drummer, a snare drummer and a tuba player ...
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
Henry Butler, Donald Harrison, Wynton Marsalis and more The older he gets, the more New Orleans pianist Henry Butler resembles Professor Longhair. When Butler, now 59, performed Friday, the opening day of this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, his tall, lanky frame, bald, narrow head and wraparound sunglasses gave him the gaunt look of ...
Planetair Launches a Guide for Organizers of Carbon-Neutral Festivals and Events
Montreal, -- Last year, Planetair, the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, the Fonds d’action quebecois pour le developpement durable (FAQDD) and Rio Tinto Alcan launched a pilot project aimed at making the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal carbon-neutral. It served to demonstrate the possibilities and as the basis for producing a guide, information tools ...
