 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.
 Christian McBride Saturday's outdoor festival, which runs from noon to 7:00 p.m. at
the corner of
Columbus and Massachusetts Avenues, will fill three stages. The
Sovereign
Stage is the festival's main stage, and here alto saxophone giant Kenny
Garrett
and critics' favorite vocalist Carmen Lundy will each perform with
their quartets.
They'll be followed by the Christian McBride Situation featuring Oliver
Lake, as
well as Patrice Rushen and turntablist DJ Logic.
In a BeanTown first, Marsalis Music, the Cambridge-based record
label begun by
saxophonist and composer Branford Marsalis, a Berklee alumnus, will
have a
stage dedicated to its acts. Expected to appear on the Marsalis Music
Stage are
drummer and Miles Davis alumnus Jimmy Cobb, guitarist and vocalist Doug
Wamble, and rarely heard master drummer Michael Carvin.
The Global Stage will showcase artists with personal or stylistic
ties to other
shores. Benin-born guitarist Lionel Loueke, who has worked with Herbie
Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Terence Blanchard since leaving Berklee in
1992,
will bring his Gilfema trio. Dynamic Cuban pianist Omar Sosa will
present his
quartet, and the Unwrapped All-Stars will give forth with their unique
brand of
jazz/hip-hop fusion.
The festival's web site is www.BeanTownJazz.org.
2006
SCHEDULE:  McCoy Tyner Friday,
September 29
The Story of Impulse Records
The McCoy Tyner Septet with Charnett Moffett, Eric Kamau Gravatt, Dave
Liebman, Wallace Roney, Steve Turre, and Donald Harrison
8:15 p.m.
Berklee Performance Center
Saturday, September 30
BeanTown Jazz Festival
12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Boston's South End
Columbus Avenue (Massachusetts Avenue to Burke Street)
(Please note: Times are tentative and subject to change.)
Live Music on Three Stages:
Sovereign Stage (Columbus Avenue)
12:15 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Mike Tucker
1:15 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
Ellen O’Brien
2:20 p.m.–3:35 p.m.
Kenny Garrett Quartet
4:00 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
A Christian McBride Situation
5:35 p.m.–6:50 p.m.
Carmen Lundy and the New Songbook Artists
Global Stage (Columbus Avenue near Massachusetts Avenue)
12:00 p.m.–1:15 p.m
Omar Sosa Trio
1:30 p.m.–2:15 p.m.
Antonio Jackson & Friends
2:35 p.m.–3:50 p.m.
Lionel Loueke's Gilfema
4:10 p.m.–4:55 p.m.
Hot Like Fire
5:15 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
Unwrapped All-Stars featuring Dennis Nelson
Marsalis Stage (On Field)
12:20 p.m.–1:05 p.m.
NEC Jazz Composers Ensemble
1:25 p.m.–2:40 p.m.
Jimmy Cobb (Javon Jackson)
2:55 p.m.–3:40 p.m.
Delfeayo Marsalis (Berklee student group with Delfeayo)
4:00 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
Doug Wamble Quartet
5:35 p.m–6:50 p.m.
Mike Carvin Quintet
Sunday, October 1
Berklee Presents
Sunday Gospel Jazz Brunch with Kendrick Oliver's New Life Orchestra,
featuring Kevin Mahogany
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Colonnade Hotel
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