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2004 Iowa City Jazz Festival
by Cassie Hart
Although the 2004 Iowa City Jazz Festival (ICJF) has already passed us by, jazz fans looking ahead and planning festival trips for next summer may find this overview informative. Held each year during the first weekend in July, the ICJF is a wonderful opportunity for families, students, and the general public to hear world-class musicians in ...
Tomasz Stanko In Ann Arbor
by C. Andrew Hovan
One of Europe's most renowned individualists, Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko has experienced somewhat of a comeback since releasing his ECM album The Soul Of Things about two years ago. His first US tour in support of the disc brought rave reviews, both in terms of the further solidification of Stanko's unique style and for the discovery ...
Count Basie?s Centennial Celebration
by Jim Santella
Dianne Reeves, Ernestine Anderson, Jon Hendricks, Diane Schuur, and the Count Basie Orchestra The Hollywood Bowl Hollywood, California July 28, 2004 Everybody thought the Basie band would be playing all those familiar songs that left their imprint on jazz history. After all, The Count Basie Orchestra, by design, intends ...
2004 Festival of New Trumpet Music
by Steve Robinson
The 2004 Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) will be held throughout the month at various participating Manhattan venues. As the name implies, this festival will feature new compositions and innovative musical configurations and musical settings, intended to constitute as a whole what trumpeter Roy Campbell (trumpeter, co-founder and co-curator of the festival) terms the “United ...
Joao Bosco in Cleveland
by C. Andrew Hovan
Night Town Cleveland Heights OH July 2004 Fresh off a summer tour that included a 20-city stint through Europe and gigs in Japan and Africa, Brazilian master Joao Bosco and his quartet held forth for two consecutive evenings at Night Town and Cleveland was blessed to be one of only three ...
2004 Vancouver International Jazz Festival
by Josephine Ochej
It could be (and has been) said that it's not a true festival in Vancouver if either revered trumpeter Dave Douglas or predictably unpredictable percussionist Han Bennink is not in attendance, but we've survived the last couple of years without them just fine. Which is, of course, not to say that they're not welcomed back with ...
Newport 50th Anniversary Celebration: A Preview
by Victor L. Schermer
To our readers: All About Jazz is planning extensive coverage of the Newport Jazz Festival Festival: August 11th through August 15, 2004. As have the first Newport event in 1954 and many of the annual concerts since, this 50th Anniversary Event represents a landmark in the history of jazz and will include a litany of outstanding ...
The 2004 Puerto Rico Heineken JazzFest
by Javier AQ Ortiz
The 14th edition of the Puerto Rico Heineken JazzFest 2004, dedicated to Gato Barbieri, was held at the Tito Puente Amphitheater on June 3-6. Musical festivities, however, started at the stylish lobby of the San Juan Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino with guitarist Steve Khan dropping as a somewhat surprise guest on June 2. Index: Day ...
Caramoor Jazz Festival Provides Great Music
by R.J. DeLuke
One could say that the first day of the 2004 Caramoor Jazz Festival on July 31 in Katonah, NY, belonged to the wonderful Hank Jones, who turned 86 that day and showed his faultless technique on piano in the event's fine closing set. But the day perhaps really belonged to Joe Lovano, the festival's artistic director, ...
Kent Jordan: Out of This World
by Tod Smith
It could be argued that Kent Jordan's new Funkshenal Art Media release Out of This World is not new at all. Jordan, who originally recorded this CD for another record label over ten years ago, withdrew it in 1994 when it became apparent that he and the label could not come to terms over the project's ...
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