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2009 Playboy Jazz Festival
Line up for the 31st Annual Playboy Jazz Festival June 13 & 14, 2009 at the Hollywood Bowl, presented in cooperation with the L.A. Philharmonic Association. SATURDAY 13 2:20- 11:00 PM The Neville Brothers Remembering the Miles Davis Classic Kind of Blue @50 Jimmy Cobb's So What Band Featuring Wallace ...
Frame After Frame Hollywood's Golden Age in Soundtracks
Hollywood’s “Golden Age” was, of course, black and white. What gave the pre-World War II talkies their “color” was their ornate, even gaudy, music. Many of those scores were the product of migr composers and their American followers, who wrote in a reactionary tuneful, tonal, lush Wagnerian style. Although the language of a Europe that was ...
Missouri Botanical Garden Announces 2009 Whitaker Music Festival Lineup
The Missouri Botanical Garden has announced the 2009 lineup of free concerts for the annual Whitaker Music Festival, which this year will take place on ten consecutive Wednesdays starting June 3 and ending August 5.As is customary, the 2009 schedule includes a number of artists of interest to jazz enthusiasts, but unlike some past ...
Seabreeze Jazz Festival to Heat up Northwest Florida's Gulf Coast
Jazz-lovers and sun-seekers across the nation are getting ready to “shake off those winter blues"--with a remedy of white sands, beautiful water, and the best in smooth contemporary jazz. The coastal beach setting of the Pier Park Amphitheater in Panama City Beach will “come alive" as the 2009 ResortQuest Seabreeze Jazz Festival makes it way to ...
Playboy Jazz Fest Announces Lineup
Quincy Jones had a twofold purpose in taking the podium at Wednesday's announcement of the 31st annual Playboy Jazz Festival. First he continued his advocacy for a secretary of the arts Cabinet position; second he introduced 23-year-old Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez, whom he has taken under his wing over the past few years. Rodriguez, who performed ...
Brazil's Carnival Kicks into High Gear with Parades
Brazil's five-day Carnival got into high gear Sunday with its famous parades in Rio de Janeiro adding choreographed extravagance on top of lusty street parties and fancy-dress balls already underway. Locals, tourists and television audiences around the world were to be treated to thousands of dancers and the drum bands from the city's samba schools marching ...
Springsteen to Headline Glastonbury
Rocker to play Saturday night main-stage. Organizers say Bruce Springsteen will headline Glastonbury, Britain's leading summer music festival. Glastonbury chief Michael Eavis says the 59-year-old rocker will play the prestigious Saturday night main-stage slot on June 27. Springsteen is due to play an outdoor concert in London's Hyde Park the next day. Eavis called The Boss ...
5th Annual Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival Set for March 6, 7 and 8
In 2004, Peter F. Gontha exclaimed, “If we want to create a jazz festival, let's go all the way; let's make it big, the biggest in the world if possible!" He wasn't joking. On 4, 5 and 6 March 2005, Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival was established. There were 11 stages and 146 performances from Indonesian ...
Name Your Own Price at Frank Demiero Jazz Festival
Tickets for the up-coming Frank DeMiero Jazz Festival are now being offered to the public at not just a reduced price, but at “name your own price” prices. Emails have been sent out offering tickets to all three headlining concerts, which are currently priced between $35 - 40 each, for whatever the ticket buyer would like ...
Celebrate Mardi Gras with New Orleans Piano
It's Mardi Gras week in New Orleans, so it's as good a time as any to join in the celebration with a brief but broad overview of some of the Crescent City's many extraordinary pianists. One of the beauties of New Orleans piano music is that once you hear it, you'll know it whenever you encounter ...
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