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12th Annual West Coast Jazz Party: 3 Full Days of Straight Ahead Jazz Print E-mail
Written by LAjazz.com   
Friday, 18 August 2006
The 12th Annual West Coast Jazz Party will take place Labor Day weekend (August 31-September 3) at the Irvine Marriott Hotel in Irvine. Seventy artists from the United States and Japan, including three big bands, will perform over four nights and three full days of straight ahead jazz. Performances each night will center on a large stage in the Marriott's Grand Ballroom beginning at 7:00 p.m., and conclude with an acoustic lobby bar session. Late afternoon lobby sessions will also feature two to three artists together in an acoustic setting.
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Scheduled performers for the Thursday, August 31 Grand Opening Sessions are the Ken Peplowski-Dave Frishberg Quartet and the Dena DeRose Trio. Friday's performers are Wycliffe Gordon and Scott Whitfield, the Houston Person Quartet, Byron Stripling, Bill Mays, the Organ Magic Trio with Jeff Hamilton, Houston Person, and from Japan, Atsuko Hashimoto. A new feature of this year's festival will be a Saturday morning screening of Ken Koenig's Jazz On The West Coast - The Lighthouse, with Ken Koenig, Howard Rumsey and Ken Poston discussing the film and answering questions. Saturday's performances will feature Butch Miles and his sextet, the Dena DeRose Trio with Jeff Hamilton, Dave Frishberg, Ken Peplowski and Chuck Redd. Closing out the day will be the "Saturday Night Dance with Houston," featuring Houston Person, Tamir Hendelman, Byron Stripling, Lynn Seaton and Jeff Hamilton. Sunday will close the festival with the Jeff Hamilton Trio, musician's comic Pete Barbutti, and a tribute to Buddy Rich starring Bobby Shew and Peter Erskine with an All-Star Alumni Big Band.

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