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Jazz Festivals
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Sunday, 13 August 2006 |
 Charnett Moffett
The BeanTown Jazz Festival features more than 15 performances on three
stages, including national acts and homegrown powerhouses, a family
entertainment area on Carter playground, a VIP jazz tent, and more than
50 vendors offering food, arts, and crafts. Prostate cancer awareness
and research organizations will be on-site at Saturday's festival to
create awareness for their programs and recruit volunteers. On-site
donations and proceeds go to Berkee's Scholarship Fund and Boston
Medical Center's Prostate Cancer Screening Initiative.
BeanTown begins, as it did for the first time last year, with a Friday
night opening
concert in the Berklee Performance Center. The 2006 festival will begin
with a
performance by legendary pianist McCoy Tyner, leading an all-star group
in "The
Story of Impulse," a retrospective of some of the definitive works of
that seminal
label, and of jazz itself. The group is Tyner with Charnett Moffett, Eric Kamau Gravatt, Dave Liebman, Wallace Roney, Steve Turre and Donald Harrison. |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Tuesday, 08 August 2006 |
 Hiromi
Thr 27-year-old pianist, Hiromi has
impressed such notables as Oscar Peterson, Chick Corea and Ahmad Jamal
(who
now manages her career). Hher Telarc debut (Another
Mind) in 2003 and the two that followed (Brain in 2004; Spiral in
2005) have had received critical aclaim. Says mentor/producer/manager
Jamal, "Hiromi is changing the
musical landscape. Her music, charm and spirit let her soar to
unimaginable heights. She is nothing short of amazing." A native of
Shizuoka, Japan, Hiromi started playing piano at age 5, was performing
in public by age 12, and at 14 performed with the Czech Philharmonic.
She eventually enrolled at Berklee in Boston, and has been touring the
world, performing for sell-out crowds ever since. |
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Wednesday, 02 August 2006 |
 Kurt Elling
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Wednesday, 02 August 2006 |
 Buckwheat Zydeco
Some of the musical highlights of the 2006 Detroit Jazz Festival
include an explosive opening evening Friday featuring The Funk Brothers
and Temptations Revue starring Dennis Edwards at Campus Martius Park,
Taj Mahal, Joan Osborne, Sergio Mendes and Brazil 2006, Ahmad Jamal,
the Lewis Nash Quartet in a tribute to Tommy Flanagan, Richie Havens,
Dr John, Diane Schuur, Lou Donaldson w/Dr. Lonnie Smith, the Holmes
Brothers, Buckwheat Zydeco, Joe Locke, Mose Allison, Marcia Ball,
Gerald Wilson Big Band and more. (A complete schedule follows).
The 27th Annual Detroit International Jazz Festival will close both
directions of Woodward Avenue from Hart Plaza to Campus Martius,
presenting over 100 musical acts on six stages. Last year the festival
expanded from its core jazz programming to embrace more musical forms
on more stages; Blues, Gospel, R&B, Zydeco, and of course, a
liberal helping of Motown soul. The city rejoiced, delivering record
attendance and concession sales for the festival. |
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Tuesday, 01 August 2006 |
 Eric Kamau Gravatt © Andrea Canter
George Wein, 80-years old, has produced the festival since it's
inception in
1954, added, "I'm as proud of the 2006 JVC Jazz Festival Newport as any
event I've ever created. It represents a total picture of what the jazz
scene is in America today." |
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