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2nd Annual Chinatown Music Festival
The 2nd Annual Chinatown Music Festival in San Francisco's Chinatown on Sunday, September 25, 2011. The Festival will feature free performances by Jest Jammin,' Genryu Arts, Sherlin Chan & The Star Valley Children's Choir, Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco led by John Calloway, Charlie Chin, San Francisco Guzheng Society and the world-premiere of “Portrait ...
Monty Alexander Jazz Festival Lights Up Labor Day Weekend
Easton, Maryland—On Labor Day Weekend 2011 the second annual Monty Alexander Jazz Festival brings legendary jazz pianist Monty Alexander to the historic Avalon Theatre in Easton. The two-day event offers performances by both seasoned and fast rising stars of national and international acclaim. The town provides a picturesque and tranquil background for the jazz festival. Townies ...
Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2011
2011 Tanglewood Labor Day Weekend Jazz Festival, September 2-4 Judy Carmichael's Jazz Inspired with actress Blythe Danner and special guests from the worlds of Jazz, Broadway, and Hollywood to take place September 3 at 2pm Angelique Kidjo, Dianne Reeves, and Lizz Wright Featured in Sing the Truth with all-star band Geri Allen, Terri Lyne Carrington, James ...
Long Beach Funk Fest: Fred Wesley, Zigaboo, Katdelic
SUMMER AND MUSIC ANNOUNCES LINEUP FOR 3RD ANNUAL LONG BEACH FUNK FEST Summer And Music (SAM) has officially announced the line up for its third annual Long Beach Funk Fest (LBFF), which takes place on Saturday, August 20, 2011, from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Pine Avenue and the Promenade between Broadway and 3rd Street ...
Jazz With Strings Attached at the Newport Jazz Festival
NEWPORT, RI—Saxophones, trumpeters, drummers, and keyboards; those are the traditional instruments you often hear in every era of jazz, and, most likely at every jazz festival. But along the way, the stringed instruments have also made their mark. Guitarists like Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass; violinists like Ray Nance and Stephane Grappelli, and bassists like Ron ...
Newport Jazz Festival Saxophone Summit!
NEWPORT, RI—Jazz is the ultimate music of collaboration—or, as they say in today's younger generation, “collab." For six decades, George Wein's Newport Jazz Festival® —now presented by Natixis Global Asset Management—has been the scene of many exciting and historic mash-ups featuring saxophonists. This year's edition of the festival exhibits an unprecedented array of sax masters old ...
Four Generations of Jazz Pianists Perform at Newport Jazz Festival
NEWPORT, RI—No other instrument in jazz is as complex and comprehensive as the piano. By extension, the pianists who play it represent all of the vivid and varied complexities of the art form, from the percussive pianisms of Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, to the get down grooves of Horace Silver, and the harmonic hurricanes generated ...
Veteran Jazz Stars Shine at Newport Jazz Festival on August 5th
NEWPORT, RI—Real jazz is music for grown-ups, played by grown-ups. And, as the impressive array of artists assembled at the 2011 Newport Jazz Festival Presented by Natixis Global Asset Management aurally illustrates, with rare exceptions, most musicians arrive at their own sound when they hit their thirties and forties. So when you see them, it's not ...
Berklee's Mario Castro Quintet performs at the Newport Jazz Festival
Boston, MA—Berklee College of Music's Mario Castro Quintet will perform at the 57th annual Newport Jazz Festival, which features some of the most innovative acts in jazz, on four stages, over three days. Castro's band, composed of some of Berklee's finest musicians, has been a regular fixture at Wally's Café, the legendary Boston club where many ...
U City Jazz Festival to be Held Saturday, September 24 in Heman Park
The municipality of University City will present the first ever U City Jazz Festival from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Saturday, September 24 at Heman Park, 7210 Olive Blvd. The free outdoor concert will feature performances from singer Jeanne Trevor, Latin jazz group Clave Sol, and the Classical Jazz Quartet (pictured), plus a tribute to John ...
