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Sedona Jazz on the Rocks Festival 2010
by Patricia Myers
Sedona Jazz on the Rocks FestivalPoco Diablo ResortSedona, AZ October 2, 2010 After a year's hiatus due to financial problems, the 29th Sedona Jazz on the Rocks Festival promised a “ReJAZZination," aimed at boosting attendance by having more blues and R&B. Unfortunately, the festival's original jazz focus suffered because the sounds ...
Sedona Jazz on the Rocks returns after one-year hiatus
By Patricia Myers Sedona, AZ—- It's being termed the “re-jazzination" of the Sedona Jazz on the Rocks Festival, the outdoor event returning after a year's hiatus related to financial issues. The daylong program on Saturday, Oct. 2, is aimed at increasing attendance by moving beyond the modern and contemporary jazz formats of the past 28 years ...
10th Annual Prescott Jazz Summit, August 27-29, 2010
The Prescott Jazz Summit in Prescott, Arizona, will mark its 10th year by presenting musicians from California and Arizona during the three-day weekend of events in concert halls, theaters and outdoors. The event was conceived and is organized by Mike Vax, former Stan Kenton Orchestra trumpeter. The festival is a benefit with net proceeds going to ...
2009 Paris Jazz Diary
by Patricia Myers
Paris, France: Proof-positive that the jazz scene here is still thriving came via five encores for 91-year-old pianist Hank Jones during the Jazz a la Villette Festival, and the crowds of enthusiastic listeners that filled small jazz clubs night after night. During my annual stay in the City of Light, I planned outings to ...
30th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival
by Patricia Myers
30th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival Hollywood Bowl June 14 and 15, 2008 The 30th annual Playboy Jazz Festival, one of the largest and longest-running jazz festivals in the nation, offered an action-packed 22-act mix of mainstream, contemporary, Latin, blues, big band and R&B sounds. The two-day event has ...
Paris Jazz Diary Summer 2007
by Patricia Myers
Paris Jazz Diary 2007PARIS, France Proof that jazz is an international language was evident all summer in the cosmopolitan city of Paris, where people of all nationalities and ages come together to perform and/or listen. The past 11 summers that I've spent here and in other parts of Europe have convinced me that Europeans ...
29th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival
by Patricia Myers
Playboy Jazz Festival Hollywood Bowl Hollywood, California June 16-17, 2007 The 29th annual Playboy Jazz Festival sustained its reputation for staging an eclectic musical mix, but this time featured twelve straight-ahead jazz sets for more than half the lineup during the two-day event in the Hollywood Bowl. The festival's balanced ...
Sedona Jazz on the Rocks 2006
by Patricia Myers
Sedona Jazz on the Rocks Sedona, AZ September 21-24, 2006 Paquito D'Rivera's Afro-Cuban energy fueled the daylong outdoor festival of the 25th annual Sedona Jazz on the Rocks weekend, aided by dazzling guitarist Earl Klugh, story-telling bluesman Doug MacLeod and a pair of scintillating singers, Rene Marie and Barbara Morrison. ...
Paris Jazz Diary 2006
by Patricia Myers
Paris, France I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles... with jazz! The City of Light certainly was sizzling with unusually high temperatures during the first three weeks of July, but that didn't deter me or other jazz fans from going to sometimes-sweltering clubs. In Paris, jazz is the international language, bringing together people of ...
Remembering Maynard at "Stratospheric" 2004
by Patricia Myers
Maynard Ferguson grinned with delight as the sounds of “Blue Birdland roared from a big band of 14 trumpeters. When the chart ended, he climbed on stage and declared, “Finally, somebody got it right! We don't need those funny instruments like saxophones and trombones! MF's classic wit and charisma were bonus elements of the four-day production ...
