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Jazz at Lincoln Center launches the 2005-06 season with the Kansas City Festival |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Saturday, 27 August 2005 |
Celebrating the Jazz Tradition and Culture of "The Heart
of America" September 22-25
 Frank Wess, photo by Nancy Miller Elliott
The festival kicks off with Kansas City: K.C. and The Count
concerts featuring the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton
Marsalis and special guest saxophonist and flutist Frank Wess in Rose
Theater on September 22, 23 and 24 at 8:00pm.
Kansas City: K.C. and The Count featuring the Lincoln Center Jazz
Orchestra will be broadcast live on September 24 via radio partners
WBGO Jazz88.3FM in the New York City area at 8pm ET and KCUR-FM in
Kansas City at 7pm CT. XM Satellite Radio listeners nationwide will
also hear the concert broadcast on select XM channels.
Bobby Watson's Boogie-Woogie Jump Band and the Juilliard
Jazz Orchestra perform in The Allen Room on September 22, 23
and 24 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $40, $75, $130 and available at the Jazz
at Lincoln Center box office on Broadway at 60th St., by calling
CenterCharge at (212) 721-6500 or via www.jalc.org.
 Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
In the Atrium, Jazz at Lincoln Center hosts events to introduce jazz
lovers to the rich traditions, mouth-watering cuisine and libations of
Kansas City.
"We are thrilled that Kansas City's history and contribution to jazz
are being recognized by Jazz at Lincoln Center," said Mayor Kay Barnes,
Mayor of the City of Kansas City, Missouri. "Kansas Citians are very
proud of our Jazz heritage, which is rooted in our historic 18th &
Vine Jazz District, and we're honored that it is being highlighted at
this exciting event. Greats such as Charlie Parker and Count Basie
nurtured their talents on the streets of Kansas City, and today we
celebrate their accomplishments throughout our community. I encourage
jazz fans visiting the Kansas City Festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center
to make plans to visit to Kansas City for a real taste of our authentic
jazz history."
The complete schedule of Kansas City Festival events:
• Kansas City: K.C. and The Count
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Featuring guest
artists Frank Wess
Thursday-Saturday, September 22, 23 & 24, 2005, Rose Theater, 8pm
The LINCOLN CENTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA with WYNTON MARSALIS performs the
music of influential Kansas City jazz musicians, particularly the
legendary Count Basie and his spare signature piano style. Saxophonist
FRANK WESS, who played in Count Basie’s big band, joins the orchestra
to play some of the best of Kansas City’s boogie-woogie jazz. This
special Kansas City show integrates new talent inspired by rich
tradition.
Tickets: $30, $50, $75, $100, $130
• Kansas City: K.C. Boogie-Woogie
Bobby Watson's Boogie-Woogie Jump Band and the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra
 Bobby Watson
Saxophonist and bandleader BOBBY WATSON and the JUILLIARD JAZZ
ORCHESTRA (celebrating its centennial) come together to perform some of
the best of Kansas City’s boogie-woogie jazz. Bobby Watson’s
Boogie-Woogie Jump Band brings these swingin’ sounds and this
distinctive Kansas City style - famed for its percussive piano sound -
to The Allen Room.
Tickets: $40, $75, $130
• Jazz 101: Kansas City: Swing Territory with Loren Schoenberg,
Executive Director of the Harlem Jazz Museum and Grammy Winning Writer
Wednesdays from September 21-November 8, 2005, Edward John Noble
Foundation Studio, 6:30 – 8:30pm
Take a trip to Kansas City without ever leaving Frederick P. Rose Hall.
This class will provide insight to the first city celebrated in Jazz at
Lincoln Center’s season “Jazz from Coast to Coast” and the musicians
that were responsible for the unique Kansas City sound.
Registration fee: $240
• Basie, Blues & Beyond: Karrin Allyson, Nancy King &
Friends
 Karrin Allyson
As part of the Diet Coke Women in Jazz Festival, Kansas City native
Karrin Allyson join other spectacular women onstage during this
celebration of the great contributions women performers have made to
jazz music.
$30 cover charge.
• Smokestack Lightning Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue
Country by Lolis Eric Elie Photographs by Frank Stewart
Book Signing by Frank Stewart
Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005, Atrium, 6pm
Photographer Frank Stewart signs copies of this book on restaurants and
barbecue joints around the country, stirred together with legends and
bits and pieces of barbecue history.
• Celebrating Bird and Kansas City Jazz with Charles McPherson
Friday-Sunday, September 23-25, 2005, Jazz Standard at 116 E. 27th St.,
NY, New York, 7:30pm and 9:30pm, with an additional 11:30pm set on
Friday and Saturday.
 Charles MCPherson, photo by Andera Canter
Music Charge: $30 Friday & Saturday / $25 Sunday
Tickets can be purchased at www.ticketweb.com or by calling Jazz
Standard at 212-576-2232.
• Jazz Battle
Featuring guest jazz musicians
Saturday, September 24, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, 1pm, 2pm and 3pm
Free to the public and to jazz lovers of all ages, this battle features
some of today's top jazz soloists, duking it out in the hottest jazz
club in the city.
Admission is free and on a first come, first served basis.
• Valaida by Candace Allen Book Signing
Saturday, September 24, Border's at the Time Warner Center at Columbus
Circle, 2pm
Author Candace Allen will be on hand to sign her first novel, Valaida,
an exploration of 20s and 30s trumpeter Valaida Snow, her work, and the
taboos associated with women playing trumpets.
• Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop A History By Frank
Driggs and Chuck Haddix Book Signing by Frank Driggs
TBA
Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix signs copies of their book that tell all
the tales of an under-appreciated scene. The authors capture the spirit
and soul of the golden age of Kansas City jazz, from ragtime to bebop
and from Bennie Moten to Charlie Parker.
About jazz in Kansas City:
Jazz in Kansas City was born in the 1920s and continues today in clubs
and events held throughout the city. The roots of Kansas City jazz are
quite varied. Blues singers of the 1920s and ragtime music greatly
influenced the music scene. Settings such as dance halls, cabarets and
speakeasies fostered the development of this new musical style. In the
early days, many jazz groups were smaller dance bands with three to six
pieces. By the mid-1920s, the big band became the most common. While
jazz began in the 1920s with a bang, it flourished in the 1930s, mainly
as a result of political boss Tom Pendergast. During prohibition, he
allowed alcohol to flow in Kansas City. As an entertainment center,
Kansas City had no equal during these dry times. This "wide-open" town
image attracted displaced musicians from everywhere in mid-America.
Throughout the Depression, Kansas City bands continued to play while
other bands across the nation folded. The city was shielded from the
worst of the Depression due to an early form of New Deal-style public
works projects that provided jobs, and affluence, that kept the
dance-oriented nightlife in town swinging. Only in Kansas City did jazz
continue to flourish. At one time, there were more than 100 night
clubs, dance halls and vaudeville houses in Kansas City regularly
featuring jazz music. Legends like Count Basie, Andy Kirk, Joe Turner,
Hot Lips Page and Jay McShann all played in Kansas City. A saxophone
player named Charlie Parker began his ascent to fame here in his
hometown in the 1930s. In the history of Kansas City music, blues
formed the basic vocabulary for KC-style jazz. The blues originated as
a rural Black vocal music with a style improvised to the rhythms of
work. That early rhythm evolved and gave birth to the blues, and
eventually to Kansas City jazz, a kind of blues that jumps with a jazz
sound.
Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for-profit arts
organization dedicated to jazz. With the world-renowned Lincoln Center
Jazz Orchestra, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and a comprehensive array
of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for
the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round
schedule of performance, education, and broadcast events for audiences
of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and
international tours, residencies, weekly national radio and television
programs, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band
competition and festival, a band director academy, a jazz appreciation
curriculum for children, advanced training through the Juilliard
Institute for Jazz Studies, music publishing, children's concerts,
lectures, adult education courses and student and educator workshops.
Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, President
& CEO Derek E. Gordon, Executive Director Katherine E. Brown,
Chairman of the Board Lisa Schiff and Jazz at Lincoln Center Board and
staff, Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce hundreds of events during
its 2004-05 season. This is the inaugural season in Jazz at Lincoln
Center's new home - Frederick P. Rose Hall - the first-ever
performance, education, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz.
Jazz at
Lincoln Center
33 West 60th St., 11th floor
New York, NY 10023
www.jazzatlincolncenter.org
For more information, please visit www.jalc.org.
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