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JazzWeek in Boston April 21st-29th |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 14 April 2007 |
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Page 1 of 2  Grace Kelly 4/37 @ Borders
Scheduled to tie into the Smithsonian Institution’s national observance of April as Jazz Month and culminate in a birthday tribute to Duke Ellington, born on April 29, Jazz Week is being directed and promoted by JazzBoston but produced independently by participating musicians, presenters, clubs, educational institutions, community centers, and other organizations. It is in every way the product of a collaborative effort by representatives of Boston’s entire jazz community, who have joined together to spread the word about the vital jazz scene that exists in Boston and keep it growing.
 Frank Morgan © Andrea Canter
The original concept for this kind of citywide celebration dates to 1973 when the Jazz Coalition took jazz into all sorts of neighborhood settings as well as large concert halls with the first-ever Boston Jazz Week. JazzBoston believes the time is right for a 21st-century revival of the spirit and multifaceted sounds that a Jazz Week 2007 can bring to our city. Composer and trumpeter Mark Harvey, who was one of the leaders of the original Boston Jazz Week, is co-leading the 2007 Jazz Week team along with singer Marianne Solivan. The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, which Harvey founded and directs, will close the week with a Duke Ellington tribute featuring pianist Ran Blake at the Museum of Fine Arts on April 29.
Jazz Week will kick off with an “All-Star Jazz Blowout” concert on April 21 at Berklee Performance Center featuring drummer Max Weinberg, Band Leader of NBC TV's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien," along with Phil Wilson directing the first-ever all-star band of faculty and students from Berklee, NEC, Harvard, MIT, Wellesley, Longy, and Brandeis. The concert will also mark the reunion of Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet with Allan Chase, Cercie Miller, Tom Hall, and Joel Springer. Part of the proceeds from the show will go to the Habitat for Humanity Musicians Village in New Orleans.
Among the other highlights of the week, a free “Perspectives in Jazz” seminar series will be held on weekdays at the Boston Public Library and cover topics such as “Jazz Cross-Currents,” “Jazz in the South End: Then and Now,” and “Jazz: Black America’s Gift to the Nation and the World.” Panelists include Joe Lovano, Al Vega and Leonard Brown.
A pair of “JazzBoston Family Initiative: Jazz for All Ages” events will bookend Jazz Week, the first on April 22 at the Center for Latino Arts in the South End, featuring percussionists Anita Quinto and Marcus Santos; and the second on April 29 at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education with vocalist Dominique Eade.
The new Borders bookstore in the Back Bay will host five nights of free in-store jazz concerts from 7 to 8 p.m. on April 23 to 27. Among the performers will be 14-year-old Brookline saxophonist Grace Kelly. And the new Beehive music club at the Boston Center for the Arts on Columbus Ave. in the South End will open its doors during Jazz Week.
A number of unique collaborations are also on tap. Turkish multi-instrumentalist Mehmet Sanlikol teams with trumpeter Tiger Okoshi at Suffolk University’s C. Walsh Theater for “An Eastern Ritual of Love” on Apr. 24. “Freex to Geex 2007,” presented by the Boston Cyberfest and the Music Synthesis department of Berklee College of Music, will explore the worlds of computer music sounds, live video and improvised music at Fenway Recital Hall on April 29. And “A Moment in Chaos,” presented in conjunction with the Cambridge Science Festival, will feature animated films by Kate Matson with improvisation by Phil Scarff, John Funkhouser and others on April 24 at the Volpe Transportation Building, Cambridge.
Other artists based in Boston and beyond who will be performing during Jazz Week include Ellis Marsalis, Frank Morgan, Lyambiko, Salim Washington, Marianne Solivan, Jerry Bergonzi, Nat Simpkins, Yoron Israel, Henri Smith, Avishai Cohen, Deborah Henson-Conant, Charlie Kohlhase, George Garzone, James Merenda, Tiger Okoshi, Eric Hofbauer, Lisa Thorsen, Tim Ray, and Dave Clark.
Complete schedule follows:
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