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Tri-C JazzFest 2003
by C. Andrew Hovan
Cuyahoga Community College Cleveland, Ohio April 2-13, 2003 Now in its 24th season, the nation’s premier educational jazz festival gets things swinging in Cleveland, a town better known for rock and roll, for a few weeks every spring. This year’s program was as eventful as in previous years, a fact that ...
Johnny Winter - The Legend Lives
by AAJ Staff
Toad’s Place New Haven, CT 4/25/2003 Johnny Winter is a living blues legend. These days he looks a bit frail as he was helped out to the front of the stage at Toad’s Place in New Haven, CT. He eased down into a chair set up in the front and stayed there ...
Thelonius Monk Intl. Jazz Competition
by Bob Jacobson
Imagine a really great jam session. The rhythm section: Eric Reed on piano, Robert Hurst on bass, Carl Allen on drums. The emcees: T.S. Monk, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. A beautiful room with good acoustics. Eleven horn players, all trombones. Except that they're all playing one at a time, that's pretty much what the 16th ...
2003 JVC Jazz Festival: A Look Ahead
by AAJ Staff
2003 JVC Jazz Festival New York June 15-28 George Wein , the grandfather of jazz festivals," announced this year's JVC Jazz Festival lineup with a little help from his friends. Bill Cosby was smiling brightly as this American icon threw his support behind the American art form of jazz. The festival is ...
Cape May Jazz Festival 2003
by Sandy Ingham
Clark Terry, one of the revered figures in jazz, was the guest of honor at the semiannual Cape May Jazz Festival April 4-6, playing two sets with his current quintet plus guest stars and three sets with former students calling themselves the Clark Terry Alumni Band. The opening night's first set was billed as a “roast,” ...
Off the Beaten Path - A Guide to What's Happening During Jazz Fest
by Tod Smith
I’d like to begin this column with the following disclaimer: the events represented here are only a sampling of what is going on in New Orleans during the two weeks of the Jazz & Heritage Festival. Trying to cover everything would require a body of work roughly the size of a Stephen King novel. But the ...
Larry Vuckovich and His Young at Heart Ensemble: Swingin
by Chris Hanke
The Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, located on the Pacific Ocean in Half Moon Bay, CA, was host to a phenomenal night of jazz performed by Larry Vuckovich’s All-Star San Francisco “Young at Heart” Ensemble on Sunday, March 30. This eclectic venue on the ocean was packed to the rafters, and was not disappointed by the ...
Steve Turre's Sanctified Shells Band
by Roy Strassman
Steve Turre Yoshi's at Jack London Square Oakland, CA Neither rain nor sleet nor lines around the block will deter the true jazz junkie from his due deliverance, and so it was last night at Yoshi's. Expecting to see an empty house, I was surprised to enter a bulging room ...
Ute Lemper Returns for One Night to The Royal Festival Hall, London UK
by Adeline Addruse
Ute Lemper returned again to the Royal Festival Hall bringing with her onto the stage something more than ever before. Her repertoire was taken mainly from her new album But One Day, consisting of compositions from Astor Piazzolla, Kurt Weill, Jacques Brel and which, for the first time, features Lemper's own works. The scene and ...
April-May 2003
by AAJ Staff
In this column: Fiona Burnett’s high octave octane New albums: Australian Art Orchestra, John Bell Trio, D’volv Please italicize album titles; use double quotes on song titles.Let's only use graphics that are currently on the web. Just send me the links to the graphics, not the files themselves. It will be a huge time ...

