Category: Festivals

2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival July 1-3

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Now in its 26th edition, the Iowa City Jazz Festival (July 1-3) boasts a line up of who’s who in modern jazz, featuring internationally renowned artists Vijay Iyer, Poncho Sanchez, Miguel Zenon, Allison Miller, Larry Fuller, David Berkman, Marquis Hill, Edmar Casteneda, and Akiko Tsuruga with Jeff Hamilton. The Iowa-Minnesota Festival Exchange, launched a year […]

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Ron Carter Appointed Artist-in-Residence for the 2016 Detroit Jazz Festival

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The Detroit Jazz Festival, the world’s largest free jazz festival, announced that legendary bassist, cellist, composer and Detroit native Ron Carter will be its 2016 Artist-in-Residence. An alum of the great ensembles of Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Wayne Shorter, Carter is the most-recorded jazz bassists of all time. Said Carter, […]

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