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Jazz In Marciac Festival: Day 2
by Mark Sabbatini
Only 50,000 of the estimated 180,000 attendees at the Jazz In Marciac Festival see the featured top-name concerts in the ultra-modern performance tents. That leaves a lot of people wandering the streets of this tiny 13th century village seeking entertainment. Much of it comes during free performances in the Marciac Cote Jardin center square and the ...
Jazz In Marciac Festival, Day 1
by Mark Sabbatini
If the Great Salt Lake is the ultimate vacation disaster for slugs, Marciac might be the equivalent for ducks. There are more fois gras stands in this southwest region of France than Seattle has coffee shops, along with plenty of other ways to purchase waterfowl in various sliced, canned and pureed ways. Forget beer and ...
The 2005 Aarhus International Jazz Festival
by Mark Sabbatini
As the rest of the world reaches its exhaustion point for Danish jazz, Aarhus is just warming up. About 200,000 people descend on Copenhagen for 10 days in July for more than 500 concerts during the city's world-famous festival. It's a nonstop barrage of everything from all-stars to “unplanned events that spill over into ...
Dutch Jazz and Performers at the 2005 North Sea Jazz Festival
by Mark Sabbatini
“There is a long jazz tradition in the Netherlands, from post-bop styles to a thriving avant-garde scene that developed in the 1960s. American jazz musicians have sometimes criticized Dutch jazz, arguing that it doesn't swing, or that it isn't sufficiently rooted in the blues. But with its philosophical roots in absurdism and slapstick, it's one of ...
Free Jazz, eh? Scores of MP3s from North of the Border
by Mark Sabbatini
A pretty free exchange of ideas and culture seems to exist between the U.S. and Canada. As a college student in Washington right next to the border, I saw the young flock north for its lower legal drinking age and older folks camp at our malls in RVs every weekend so they could bargain shop.
Off the Main Stages at the 2005 North Sea Jazz Festival
by Mark Sabbatini
(Note: This is part of an ongoing series about jazz from lesser-known events and places around the world. Although the North Sea Jazz Festival hardly qualifies, this article focuses on performers getting the “small print" treatment - and sometimes not even that - at the bottom of the schedule. Big-name acts were deliberately avoided - with ...
Montreal's OFF Jazz Festival 2005
by Mark Sabbatini
The Montreal Jazz Festival is billed as the world's largest, with more than 200,000 people watching 2,000 performers during 10 days. But National Post columnist Graeme Hamilton notes that while flower-shaped mangos and massage booths are everywhere, actually finding jazz can be difficult. “For every Pat Metheny there is a Paul Anka, and for every Sonny ...
Saskatchewan Jazz Festival 2005
by Mark Sabbatini
Haggling as a hemp dealer in the park is a strange initiation for a jazz festival volunteer. But tackling the unexpected head-on is vital for a group whose composing and improvisation skills are frequently equal to the performers on stage. Besides, like musicians who can make “So What" forgettable or funky, what counts is how the ...
The 2005 Medicine Hat Jazz Festival
by Mark Sabbatini
(Note: This is part of an occasional series looking at jazz festivals and culture in lesser-known locations around the world.) Jimmy Bosch went from playing in front of 20,000 people at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to fewer than twenty at a small theater in “The Gas City" of Canada. He was rushed there straight ...
Performers at the Medicine Hat Jazz Festival
by Mark Sabbatini
(Note: This is part of the occasional “Back Roads Beat" series about jazz at lesser-known festivals and locations around the world.) Theresa Sokyrka might be hard to get tickets for, but getting saturated by her live performances is easy. The runner-up of “Canadian Idol 2" was the headline act at the 2005 Medicine Hat ...
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