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2008: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The demise of one of the world's premier jazz advocacy organizations topped the jazz world's headlines during 2008, a year that also saw several jazz festivals impacted by the worsening economy. Yet the music itself--and its makers--continue to survive if not thrive in many ways. Here's a look at notable happenings and achievements: ...
Cape May Jazz Festival, November 6-8, 2008
by Ken Franckling
Cape May Jazz FestivalCape May, NJNovember 6-8, 2008 For 15 years, the semi-annual Cape May Jazz Festival has been offering jazz-and-blues-filled weekends each April and November, to primarily East Coast jazz fans who flock to New Jersey's southernmost tip more for the music than the shopping, the colorful array of gingerbread Victorian houses, or ...
Newport 2008
by Ken Franckling
Newport Jazz Festival Newport, Rhode Island August 8-10, 2008 Jazz in every form was bubbling August 8-10 at the 2008 edition of the JVC Newport Jazz Festival, with a visible and aural increase in the post-rock jam sub-genre. The strength and diversity of the weekend's music showed that under new ownership, ...
Cape May Looks to the Future
by Ken Franckling
After producing 28 jazz festivals in 14 years, Cape May Jazz Festival Co-Founder Carol Stone and her team found themselves at a bit of a turning point when they began planning this spring's 29th edition. The festival has featured weekends each April and November that extend the tourist season in New Jersey's historic southernmost city. Over ...
Tanglewood Jazz Festival
by Ken Franckling
Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2007 Tanglewood Music Center Lennox, Massachusetts June 28 to September 3, 2007 Chronological balance and stylistic diversity helped imbue the 2007 edition of the Tanglewood Jazz Festival with extra pizzazz over Labor Day Weekend as the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home in the Berkshire Hills of western ...
Beantown Jazz Festival 2007: Celebrating Joyce Wein's Legacy
by Ken Franckling
"A Celebration of Jazz & Joyce," Beantown Jazz Festival Symphony Hall Boston, Massachusetts September 27, 2007 I doubt Boston has seen as many great jazz players on one stage for one concert since the old Jazz at the Philharmonic jazz all-star tours sponsored by producer Norman Granz decades ago. On ...
Newport Jazz Festival 2007
by Ken Franckling
2007 JVC Newport Jazz Festival Fort Adams State Park Newport, Rhode Island August 10-12, 2007 The spirit of late great jazz masters lives on through many of those who were influenced by them, and the 2007 JVC Newport Jazz Festival made those connections in a huge way. It was evident ...
27th Cape May Jazz Festival
by Ken Franckling
Cape May Jazz FestivalCape May, NJApril 20, 2007Pat Martino was the natural choice to lead the weekend's jazz guitar brigade when the 27th edition of the semi-annual Cape May Jazz Festival focused on the jazz guitar legacy with a tribute to Wes Montgomery. Guitarists featured in Cape May for the weekend included Teddy ...
2006: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
A year of triumphs, support, tragedies, controversy and great losses In the jazz world, 2006 was a year that defied a tidy little description. There was much going on, including the continuing efforts to rebuild New Orleans from the tragic and deadly aftermath of August 2005's Hurricane Katrina. Support initiatives for Crescent City ...
Cape May Jazz Festival, Nov. 10-12, 2006
by Ken Franckling
Cape May Jazz Festival Cape May, NJ November 10-12 Both communities are surrounded by water, and therefore are extra vulnerable to Mother Nature. New Orleans felt it in ways still unimaginable for most of us, despite the stories and the vivid broadcast images of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. Cape May, ...
