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ParisJazz Festival 2006
by Patricia Myers
Ahmad Jamal, Yusef Lateef, Sarah Morrow and the American All-Stars Paris Jazz Festival 2006 Paris, France When Ahmad Jamal walked on stage at the Paris Jazz Festival, a crowd of 15,000 stood to applaud and cheer even before the 76-year-old pianist played a note. The concert was the best twin bill of ...
28th Playboy Jazz Festival
by Patricia Myers
28th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival Hollywood Bowl Hollywood, CA June 17-18, 2006 The 28th annual Playboy Jazz Festival delivered much more pure jazz than in recent years, focusing on New Orleans roots and Latin influences rather than crossover and contemporary sounds. Having reviewed this festival since the early '80s, ...
27th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival
by Patricia Myers
27th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival June 11-12, 2005 Hollywood Bowl, California Although the “pure element of its name further erodes every year, the annual Playboy Jazz Festival always plays to nearly sold-out crowds. That's because most of the 18,000 listeners are there to party first and enjoy the performers as a secondary ...
Paris Jazz Diary
by Patricia Myers
PARIS, France--Americans nostalgic for jazz sounds of the '40s to the '60s will find a trip to Paris as satisfying as enjoying the cuisine and viewing the Eiffel Tower. Classic and mainstream jazz is played in a dozen nightclubs by French and European musicians, along with Afro-Cuban, Brazilian and contemporary genres. In my notes from two ...
North Sea Jazz Festival 2004
by Patricia Myers
29th North Sea Jazz Festival The Hague, The Netherlands July 9-11, 2004 The North Sea Jazz Festival is not for the weak or the meek. More than 200 concerts in the sprawling Congress Centre featured top jazz musicians as well as blues, soul, R&B, crossover and world-music artists, plus numerous student ensembles. ...
26th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival
by Patricia Myers
A diverse roster ranging from top jazz musicians to blues, soul, R&B, crossover and world-beat music filled the Hollywood Bowl for the 26th annual Playboy Jazz Festival, June 19-20. During the quarter-century that I've reviewed this festival, programming has mixed jazz legends and emerging talent from many musical genres. The main jazz lineup included Wynton Marsalis, ...
