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Chicago Blues Festival a Howlin' Success
by Sandy Ingham
2007 Chicago Blues Festival Grant Park Chicago, Illinois June 7-10, 2007 If a visitor from another planet had happened into Grant Park in Chicago late Sunday night June 10, heard the music pouring forth from the stage during a 97th birthday salute to the late, great Howlin' Wolf, and seen ...
Jazzfest: Big Boost for Battered New Orleans
by Sandy Ingham
2007 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival New Orleans, Louisiana April 26, April 27-29, May 4-6 Jazzfest is such a joyous occasion--a 10-day marathon reunion of friends and families from around the world who revel in the music, the food and the other pleasures of New Orleans--that it's hard to reconcile ...
IAJE 2007 Conference Explores Future of Jazz
by Sandy Ingham
It began with an inspirational talk by pianist Danilo Perez on how jazz can be a unifying force in the world, spawning creativity and collaboration that just might help solve the seemingly intractable problems of poverty, global warming and war. It ended with an inspiring performance by Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra of the antiwar suite ...
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra/Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Band at New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, Nov. 25
by Sandy Ingham
Back in the day, this battle of the bands at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark would have been declared a TKO before the first note sounded. In this corner, the heavyweight champions, the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, boasting legendary names--Moody, Heath, D'Rivera, Slide Hampton--playing beloved classics by Dizzy, Monk, Golson et al. ...
Big Easy at Play: Cape May Jazz Festival, Cape May, NJ November, 10-12
by Sandy Ingham
Cape May Jazz Festival Cape May, NJ November 10-12, 2006 Hearing jazz singer Germaine Bazzle is likely to be one of the best experiences you'll ever have...if you get lucky in New Orleans. But a couple of thousand visitors to the Cape May Jazz Festival, Nov. 10-12, didn't have to trust their ...
Ellington Festival: A Capital Idea
by Sandy Ingham
Duke Ellington Jazz Festival Washington, D.C. October 5-6, 2006When a nor'easter came barreling up the Atlantic Coast on Oct. 5-6, the folks behind the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival in Washington, D.C., did what jazz people do best. They improvised.So the all-day free festival planned that Saturday on the National Mall ...
Chicago Jazz Festival 2006
by Sandy Ingham
The Chicago Jazz Festival is the biggest free event of its kind anywhere, and it also likes to boast about the broad spectrum of music it offers... everything from the roots to the far-out branches (but no “smooth" jazz, thank good ness). It lived up to its billing on both counts over Labor Day weekend.An ...
What a Wonderful Satchmo Summerfest
by Sandy Ingham
It's been 105 years since Louis Armstrong came onto this Earth, and 35 years since he left it, and yet the music he created and laughter he inspired continue to bring enjoyment to listeners today. That's especially true in his hometown of New Orleans which, despite the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, staged its sixth annual Satchmo ...
Chicago Blues Festival 2006
by Sandy Ingham
The 2006 Chicago Blues Festival had plenty going for it--a galaxy of great local stars, several guests from the New Orleans diaspora and other blues outposts, a half-dozen stages with music from noon till 10 p.m., the usual array of food and drink vendors and assorted stands selling everything from souvenirs and T-shirts to air travel ...
New Orleans Jazz Fest: Guilty Pleasures in a Surreal Setting
by Sandy Ingham
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, Louisiana April 28-30 & May 5-7, 2006 They said it couldn't be done. After Hurricaine Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, many doubted the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest would go on this year as it has every April and May since ...
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