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The Detroit Jazz Festival is playing this Labor Day Weekend. One reason the four-day event is subtitled “A Love Supreme: The Detroit-Philly Connection" is the powerful legacy of bassists from those cities. In a sidebar piece leading up to the festival, Mark Stryker of The Detroit Free Press writes about their importance. If it ...
Obama to Speak at Hart Plaza; Detroit Jazz Fest Crew to Watch Clock
Leaders of the Detroit International Jazz Festival have been told that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is planning to speak at a Labor Day rally at 11 a.m. Monday at the main amphitheater at Hart Plaza -- just one hour before the festival is scheduled to kick-off its final day. “We really don't know what the ...
Jazz Speaks to the Soul
Vail Jazz Festival musicians wax poetic about a genre that defies definition VAIL, Colorado -- The definition of jazz has always been elusive. Ever since jazz emerged in the black communities of the South (most notably in New Orleans) in the late 1800s, it has been a style of music that relies heavily on improvising a ...
Terri Pontremoli is Lifting Detroit's Annual Jazz Fest to New Heights
Terri Pontremoli grew up as a gifted violinist in Cleveland, where she attended the Cleveland Institute of Music and, without skipping a beat, started teaching at the school at 21. A busy freelancer, she played for Cleveland Opera, accompanied entertainers like Sammy Davis Jr., worked as a studio musician and contracted pit bands for musicals and ...
Savoring Jazz and Wine: 20th Annual Herndon Labor Day Jazz and Wine Festival
Labor Day festival returns for 20th time Visitors to downtown Herndon this Labor Day will have an opportunity to exercise their love for music and Virginia wines if they choose to stop by the 20th Annual Labor Day Jazz and Wine Festival. The six-hour event will feature live performances from area musicians and a wine tasting ...
Tanglewood Season Closes with Annual Jazz Festival
With the end of August and the upcoming Labor Day holiday, a week of relative repose makes for a natural demarcation point between the musically hyperactive summer festival season and several imminent regional fall chamber and college series, which start up after Labor Day. I'll focus on several of those next week. Though Tanglewood, that colossus ...
Ode to Ornette
Chicago's certified jazz genius talks the deeper meaning of free jazz. By Ken Vandermark EDITOR'S NOTE: In 1959, a 29-year-old Ornette Coleman released his second album for Atlantic (and just his fourth in all), The Shape of Jazz to Come. The title told the simple truth: Coleman thought outside the bop and charted new territory ...
Legend, Rising Star Highlight Tanglewood Jazz Festival
Some critics use chronological age as a crucial standard for measuring talent, just as powerful publicity machines fixate on youth as a prime marketing point for peddling jazz products. But in the real world of the musicians themselves, there isn't any generation gap, no cultural chasm between Old Masters residing atop Mount Olympus and rising New ...
Chicago Jazz Festival Starts Today
Grant Park; Thu 28-Sun 31 When jazz fans scan this year's lineup, two names will jump off the page: Sonny and Ornette. Sonny Rollins (Pritzker Pavilion), who kicks off the fest Thursday night, may be the exemplar of bebop's thorny relationship to its past. At 78, Rollins remains a mercurial and thrilling live performer, refusing to ...
Best Bets for the Detroit International Jazz Fest
Detroit and Philadelphia have such similar jazz histories that the cities might well be twins separated at birth. Both reached their zenith of influence in the hard bop 1950s. Both graduated countless players to the national scene. Both produced R&B juggernauts, Motown and Philly soul. The 29th annual Detroit International Jazz Festival, which runs Friday through ...
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