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Guelph Jazz Festival 2008
The Guelph Jazz Festival, which focuses on innovative and creative improvisation, runs in Guelph, Ont., from Sept. 3 to 7, with concerts, workshops and symposiums. Here are some of this year's highlights. Sept. 3: DJ Spooky and Vijay Iyer. A collaboration between one of New York's most adventurous turntablists and one of jazz's most promising young ...
Popular Sydney Band Entertain at the 21st Newcastle Jazz Festival 2008
The Newcastle Jazz Festival was held at the Town Hall at Newcastle NSW on the 30th, 31st August and 1st September. The line up of bands and artists were: Lee Gunness, Paul Griffith Orchestra and Quintet, Cary Bennett and Swingout, Hendo’s Early Roots, Dan & Howler Strictly Swingin’, Trevor Furner Unsafe Sax, Daryl Aberhart Trio, Ben ...
The 6th Annual Festival of New Trumpet Music in September
Dave Douglas (director, curator), with Taylor Ho Bynum + John McNeil + Jeremy Pelt (curators), Announce The 6th Annual Festival Of New Trumpet Music September 13-28, 2008 In 2005, “this gathering (a.k.a. FONT Music), co-curated by Dave Douglas, Roy Campbell, Jr., and Jon Nelson, has grown from a few nights at Tonic into a month long ...
Jazz Fest Full of Talent, Creative Programming
The best evidence that the Detroit International Jazz Festival has dramatically upped the quality of its programming is that aficionados had scheduling conflicts all weekend long. The chance that you had to mortgage one can't-miss act for another was perhaps the highest in the festival's 29 years. The trend toward tough choices actually began with last ...
Ornette Coleman Borrows from the Classics at Jazz Festival
One of the most successful Chicago Jazz Festivals on record (both for attendance and quality of programming) ended with a bang Sunday night, and that wasn't just the sound of fireworks over the lake co-mingling with Denardo Coleman's bass drum beats during the closing set. The Petrillo Music Shell had hosted cut-above local tenorist Ron Dewar ...
Elvin Bishop Headlines San Francisco Blues Festival
Guitar great Elvin Bishop will headline the 2008 San Francisco Blues Festival on September 27th. The show, a homecoming for the San Francisco resident, will come hot on the heels of his new album, 'The Blues Rolls On' (Delta Groove/Eclecto Groove), set for release on September 23rd. Bishop will perform with The Delta Groove All Star ...
Jam-Packed Sunday Challenges a Jazz Critic's Stamina
If any more evidence was needed that the Detroit International Jazz Festival has elevated its product in the last two years, the gloriously stuffed schedule of overlapping talent on Sunday was it. The laws of metaphysics made it impossible to hear it all, and no sane person would even try to ingest as much as I ...
New Grooves Kicks Off 51st Annual Monterey Jazz Festival
4onefunk, Rudder, Quantic, Christian McBride Band Star In Funk-Filled Nonstop Jazz Party $35 Ticket Includes Access To 8 Stages Of World Class Jazz, Dancing, DJs, International Shopping, Food, Beverages, And More Monterey, CA; The Monterey Jazz Festival kicks off its 51st edition on Friday, September 19, with a funk-filled night of New Grooves. Started as a ...
Red Sea Jazz Veterans Soar Far Beyond Memory Lane
This year's Red Sea Jazz Festival delivered on all fronts. Major international draws, such as veteran jazz-world music fusion band Oregon, drummer Terri Lyne Carrington's all-female quartet and iconic pianist Carla Bley's Lost Chords combo, packed in the crowds. And the Israeli contingent showed its mettle too, particularly the Mafrum Sextet, the Shauli Einav Quartet and ...
Jazz Aspen Rocking to Age 17
ASPEN -- Jazz Aspen Snowmass has come along way since 1991 when its troubled beginnings indicated it might not make it. Fast forward 17 years, and it has become a multimillion-dollar nonprofit that brings some of the biggest music shows to the area, as well as funds music educational programs. JAS began as two concerts in ...
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