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- 52nd Monterey Jazz Festival Pr...
Monterey Fairgrounds
Sunday, September 20 at 11:00am - 52nd Monterey Jazz Festival Pr...
Monterey Fairgrounds
Saturday, September 19 at 11:30am - 52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Fest...
Monterey Fairgrounds
Friday, September 18 at 6:00pm - Next Generation Jazz Orchestra...
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Wednesday, July 15 at 6:00pm
Monterey Jazz Festival MJF Artist-in-Residence update: 2006 AIR Kurt Elling performs at the White House on 11/24/09!
www.examiner.com
Guess who’s singing at dinner? Tuesday night, when President and Mrs. Obama welcome the prime minister of India to their first State Dinner, poll-topping Chicago vocalist Kurt Elling will take the stage to provide the entertainment.
Monterey Jazz Festival The MJF/52 Showcase Artist, Joe Lovano, recently broke BOTH his arms in Europe. Our best wishes to him for a speedy recovery.
jazztimes.com
While on tour in Europe, saxophonist Joe Lovano suffered injuries in two separate incidents and ended up with both arms broken.
Monterey Jazz Festival Jazzwest.com slideshows are complete! Enjoy these photographs from the 2009 Monterey Jazz Festival, featuring jazz photographers Stuart Brinin, Ronald Davis, Robert Holt and Wayne Saroyan.
www.jazzwest.com
JazzWest.com :: Celebrating the Best in Bay Area Jazz with exclusive news, artist profiles, concerts and more
Monterey Jazz Festival A trombonist is our first confirmed MJF/53 artist.
Monterey Jazz Festival Please check out our newly-updated Digital Music Education Project, which features interviews with MJF artists -- recorded at the Festival each year!
www.montereyjazzfestival.org
MJF's Digital Music Education Project features interviews with top jazz artists, including the music that influenced them most, their recommendations of music every jazz player and fan should experience, and tips they've learned on their instruments to benefit other musicians.
Monterey Jazz Festival Only two more days for the free iTunes downloads! Expires November 15, 2009.
www.montereyjazzfestival.org
The Monterey Jazz Festival has teamed up with iTunes once again to offer our fans a special gift -- exclusive iTunes downloads, good for 8 free songs from Monterey Jazz Festival artists and more!
Monterey Jazz Festival An announcement for the Next Generation Festival in the Salinas Californian -- If you have heard deserving and talented young musicians, please let them know!
www.thecalifornian.com
The Monterey Jazz Festival has announced that the sixth annual Next Generation Festival, featuring the nation’s most talented middle school, high school, conglomerate school, and college jazz musicians and vocalists, will be held April 9-11 in downtown Monterey.
Monterey Jazz Festival Artist-In-Residence update: Here is a live broadcast from the famed Village Vanguard in New York City by MJF/51 Artist-In-Residence, Christian McBride, with his "Inside Straight" group -- which was so named after their performance on the Jimmy Lyons stage at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 2008. Thank you to NPR and WBGO!
www.npr.org
What do you do when you're one of the world's top bassists, adept in all styles related to jazz, and you get a craving to play the Vanguard again? If you're Christian McBride, you assemble a top-notch, straight-ahead acoustic quintet specifically for the purpose.
Monterey Jazz Festival Oakland Examiner's Brian McCoy has a wrapup of MJF/52 in this article from 9/21/09.
www.examiner.com
The sweetest, saddest day of the year – the Monday after the Monterey Jazz Festival.Sweet for any number of reasons, most notably that you wake up in foggy Monterey with the Sunday night session still ringing, so to speak, in your ears. ...
Monterey Jazz Festival And another late one from MJF/52, David Becker for the Bay Area Jazz Examiner, from 9/21/09. Brubeck, Wynton, Toshiko Akiyoshi.
www.examiner.com
Yes, jazz needs new blood to remain vital. But I've never been more appreciative of the value of seasoned pros than after enduring some of the Monterey Jazz Festival's grating stabs at modernism.
Monterey Jazz Festival Here is an article I missed from MJF/52, from the Monterey Bay Restaurant Examiner, with a focus on all the food on the grounds!
www.examiner.com
The Monterey Jazz Festival food venues kept the party going while guests roamed from one music scene to another. The first night there were long lines in front of the Cuban/Caribbean kitchens and the Chowder Mobile, which never seemed to hurt for attention.
Robert Daggett I am doing a paper on the event and i was wondering. Who organizes the event? How many personnel are required for a successful event? What is the evaluation Process and who is involved. If any one can help me that would be greatly apprectiated.. if you have any contact info. that would be great!! Thanks!!!
Monterey Jazz Festival An article by Nat Hentoff for the Wall Street Journal about 2008 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra member Hailey Niswanger. Go!
online.wsj.com
With her new CD, 19-year-old saxophone phenomenon Hailey Niswanger answers the question, 'Can jazz be saved?'
Tess Coleman I was lucky enough to attend this year on the Friday and Saturday. You can read about the artists I saw on my blog! http://tesssmusicblog09.blogspot.com/ earlier in the blog I did some reviews of the Monterey blues festival from June.
tesssmusicblog09.blogspot.com
The Monterey Jazz Festival is the longest running festival in the world. It has been 13 years since I attended this festival so it was wonderful to arrive on perfect day and soak up all the great jazz on offer. ...
Monterey Jazz Festival Do you live in or around the Monterey Peninsula? Please take our local residents survey!
www.montereyjazzfestival.org
In order to serve our local community better, the Monterey Jazz Festival would like to get to know our local residents better. We've joined with our colleagues at Monterey Institute of International Studies to develop and undertake a survey of local residents regarding the Monterey Jazz Festival.
