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Portland Jazz Festival, Part 3
Final report on the opening days of the Potland Jazz Festival: In elegant Schnitzer Hall, clarinetist and tenor saxophonist Don Byron had Edward Simon on piano and Eric Harland on drums in his Ivey-Divey Trio. It was the same instrumentation as the Gross-Frishberg-Doggett trio that played the night before in quite different circumstances (see Part 2). ...
S.F. Blues Festival Canceled
REVERED OUTDOOR FESTIVAL STARTED IN 1973 CANCELS 2009 EDITION AND MAY NOT RETURN Johnny Winter In an article in the Oakland Tribune on Tuesday, San Francisco Blues Festival founder Tom Mazzolini announced that the 2009 festival was being called off, saying, “We may well have seen the last San Francisco Blues Festival." This year ...
Carnaval to Burst to Life in Hollywood
Suddenly, Los Angeles is feeling a little like São Paulo. SoCal's largest annual Brazilian Carnaval celebration returns to the Palladium after years in Long Beach. First, two large Carnaval-related events will take place this weekend -- a festival in Santa Barbara and the annual Brazilian Carnaval at the Palladium Saturday. Then, a DJ-centric dance ...
Life Not All a Carnival for Rio's Drum Queens
RIO DE JANEIRO For 18-year-old Raissa de Oliveira, there are only two seasons in a year -- Carnival, and the rest. For most of the year, the pretty, diminutive teen-ager is a journalism student from a rough part of town. In the weeks leading up Brazil's annual festival of Bacchanalia, she becomes a cross ...
Portland Jazz Festival, Part 2
Further reflections on highlights of the festival's first weekend: Gonzalo Rubalcaba opened the first major concert of the festival with a band of young sidemen who are in the thick of the latterday New York Latin jazz explosion that is producing some of the most important music of the new century. The virtuoso pianist's quintet is ...
Portland Jazz Festival, Part 1
The sagging economy has led the Portland Jazz Festival to cancel one of the major concerts of its final weekend. Artistic director Bill Royston announced that for the first time in his 32-year-career as a jazz impresario he was pulling the plug on a primary event. Advance sales to a Friday night concert by singer Cassandra ...
RVAjazzfest: Steven Bernstein
Steven Bernstein will perform at RVAjazzfest with Fight the Big Bull on February 21, 2009, 8pm, at The Camel. Boots of Leather and Glows in the Dark open. Tickets are $10, all ages welcome. By Dean ChristesenTrumpeter and arranger Steven Bernstein considers himself to be in a fortunate position. He is ...
MTN. Jam '09 Adds: Umph, Kdtu
ALREADY STUFFED JAM-CENTRIC LINEUP JOINED BY BENEVENTO, GOMEZ, KRASNO, GENE WEEN, KREUTZMAN Warren Haynes - Mtn. Jam 2008 by Adam McCullough Radio Woodstock and Warren Haynes have confirmed that Umphrey's McGee, The Grateful Dead's Bill Kreutzmann with Oteil Burbridge and Scott Murawski, Gomez,Gene Ween Band, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Marco Benevento Trio, ...
Roberto Magris in Ecuador
Italian pianist Roberto Magris is scheduled on March 10, 2009 to perform at the Ecuador Jazz Festival in Quito. About Roberto Magris Born in Trieste (Italy) in 1959 and began his jazz career in the late ‘70s. In the ‘80s, he led a jazz trio named “Gruppo Jazz Marca”, whose recordings were reissued in 2006, as ...
The 2009 Melbourne International Jazz Festival: April 26 to May 2
More than 55 events Five world premieres Nine Australian premieres Four Festival commissions Five Australian/international collaborations Melbourne International Jazz Festival April 26 to May 2, 2009 Venues Around Melbourne Ticketek, Ticketmaser, Moshtix, Melbourne Recital Centre In a week of unparalleled musicianship--26th April ...
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