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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 ...
The Oslo Jazz Festival 2011 Program is Complete
The Oslo Jazz Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, and having confirmed Humcrush/Sidsel Endresen, Fredrik Kronkvist Quartet and Desafindao, the anniversary program is complete. The festival is also proud to announce this year's Young Star and Showcase bands. Keyboardist Ståle Storløkken (Supersilent) and drummer Thomas Strønen (Food) are Humcrush. As a duo Storløkken and Strønen ...
George Wein’s Foundation Already Set for Newport Festivals in 2012
By Dan Kassell As impresario and swing jazz pianist, George Wein is best known for creating the first Newport Folk Festival (NFF) in 1954 and Newport Jazz Festival (NJF) in 1959, supported almost entirely by jazz fans Louis and Elaine Lorillard and, at that point in time, nonprofit entities. In a telephone interview, just before this ...
Roxbury International Film Festival Runs in Boston July 28 Through July 31
The 13th annual Roxbury International Film Festival is taking place in Boston from Thursday, July 28 to Sunday, July 31, 2011 in various cultural venues around the city. Produced by The Color of Film Collaborative, RIFF was launched in 1999 to celebrate films written, produced and directed by filmmakers of color. The opening night film, The ...
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