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Tanglewood Jazz Festival - Many Great Musical Moments
I've submitted my take on this year's Tanglewood Jazz Festival to JazzTimes. I'll advise here when it is published. In the meantime, suffice it to say that overall it was another interesting and exceptional festival with only a couple of disappointments. Fortunately, the great musical moments more than compensated for them. Paquito D'Rivera opened the weekend ...
Newport Festival Names Back Where They Belong
It sounds like the Newport Jazz Festival and Newport Folk Festival names are back in use by producer George Wein, starting with the 2010 editions.When Festival Network LLC bought Wein's longstanding company, Festival Productions Inc., less than three years ago, it acquired the rights to use the two names, as well. After Festival Network ...
A Jazz Piano Plus
When some things in jazz have been in retrenchment mode this year - festivals, magazines - here's a positive note for the future.Randy Weston will be featured in a solo piano concert October 12 at the Somerville Theater in Somerville MA, kicking off a series of annual concerts celebrating the legacy of Thelonious Monk ...
Jazz Travelers
To what lengths will fans go to hear great jazz?Depending on where you live, sometimes it's right around the corner or across town. Sometimes you drive for hours as part of a vacation trip, or fly many miles.This holiday weekend brings out all of those facets, as jazz festival goers are out ...
September Spirit
There is a lot of programming diversity going on near and far for jazz and jazz venues in September. These caught my interest. I know I will catch at least one of them in person. And it is a great time to confirm that jazzlives#September 2-- Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles - The original members ...
Jazz is Vibrant? Help Prove It, Twitter Style
You say you don't buy the tired old saw “jazz is dead"? It's time to show it's not so, and today's social networking craze is the way to help. Yes folks, it's Twitter time. #jazzlivesThere's a movement afoot to dispel the impression, which received substantial mileage through Terry Teachout's recent Wall Street Journal piece, ...
Berklee Honoring Brubeck at Monterey
On September 20, jazz great Dave Brubeck will have something in common with Bonnie Raitt, Sting, Loretta Lynn and Gloria and Emilio Estefan - an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee for their contributions to music and humanity.The Boston-based Berklee College of Music will present the pianist and composer with an honorary doctorate just ...
Tanglewood Twist
This Labor Day Weekend's Tanglewood Jazz Festival in Lenox MA has tweaked its programming a bit to further bridge jazz and classical music forms in this most likely spot to do so - the idyllic summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.The move began last year when Boston jazz pianist and composer Donal Fox ...
A Special Weekend Indeed
Once something goes away--or is threatened with going away--you find out how much it is appreciated. That was the case this past weekend for George Wein, whose jazz festival in Newport lived on, thanks to his efforts to ensure his Newport legacy survives.He had help from longtime staff, an army of fellow musicians, some ...
Go Newport
Going into 2009, we wondered whether the Newport Jazz Festival as we've known it all these years, would ever be back - given the financial straits of the Festival Network LLC, the upstart company that in 2007 bought George Wein's highly respected, well-oiled Festival Productions Inc. machine. Well, it's back, compliments of Wein's refusal to see ...
