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Current Jazz Events in the
Northwest
The
35th Annual IAJE Conference
will be held in Toronto, Canada January 9-12,
2008.
Passports will be required to re-enter the US
this year so plan ahead. Headliners acts include
New York Voices with Paquito D'Rivera, Martin
Taylor, Courteney Pine, Empirical, Kenny Werner
with Roseanna Vitro, Kurt Elling, Tierney
Sutton, Christian Scott, Smithsonian Jazz
Masterworks Orchestra, Barry Bromberg, Les
Projectionnistes and DMBQ.
IAJE Conference
Site.
Read Jazzoids' report on last January's 2007
IAJE Conference.
Check
out EMP's Jazz in January offerings with
a Latin theme: Michael Shrieve, Joe Santiago,
Jovin Santos Neto, Jerry Gonzalez and the
Fort Apache Band, and more.
Details.
Portland
Jazz Festival is declared by DownBeat
to have "moved into the upper echelon of US jazz
festivals". The 2008 February 15-22 headliners
include Ornette Coleman, The Bad Plus, Tord
Gustavsen, Nancy King, Joshua Redman, Bill
Charlap, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones,
and many others.
Get information from
PDX Jazz.
Seattle
Jazz Photo, "A Great Day in Seattle" -
Nearly 300 of Seattle's
professional jazz musicians gathered May 6th for
a "Great Day In Harlem"-style photograph on the
steps of Seattle City Hall. The attendees
represented the wide array of music that makes
up the Seattle Jazz Scene, from early Jackson
Street Days, to free improvised music, to modern
contemporary smooth jazz. Pulitzer-prize winning
photographer Daniel Sheehan snapped the official
shutter on the event. Posters are now available.
All of the proceeds from sales will be donated
to Musicares. For more information,
please visit
www.agreatdayinseattle.com.
A
great
line up
of upcoming
Jazz Alley performances include:
Ernestine Anderson, Poncho Sanchez, Sara Gazarek,
Pearl Django, Joey DeFrancesco, Peter White,
Marlena Shaw, Stanley Clarke, Chris Botti,
Eliane Elias, Mindi Abair, Duke Ellington
Orchestra, and
Holly Cole.
Details.
The Triple
Door presents
upcoming acts:
Les Nubians, Too
Slim and the Tail Draggers with the Underworld
Orchestra Horns,
Cyrus Chestnut, Jessica Williams,
Henry Butler, Thomas Marriott, Steve Tyrell,
Chris Botti, Matt Jorgenson+451
and more.
Details.
Recent features
Centrum's Jazz Port
Townsend was held July
27-28 at Fort Worden. Mainstage
performances included Houston Person Trio,
Banda Brothers Latin Jazz All-Stars, Joe Locke,
Roberta Gambarini, , the Festival All
Star Big Band with Gerald Wilson, Roy
Hargrove Quintet, and the Alma College
Percussion Ensemble.
Review and pictures coming
soon.
Read Jazzoids' review of last summer's
festival.
Roosevelt High School Jazz
Band takes top
honors again at the prestigious 2007
Essentially Ellington Competition.
Read
The Seattle Times article by Paul DeBarros.
The 2007 Portland Jazz Festival
was held February 16-25. Headliners included
Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Roy Hargrove,
Don Byron, Patricia Barber, Charles Lloyd,
Tomasz Stanko, Geri Allen, Kurt Elling, Branford
Marsalis, Jacky Terrasson and many
more. Jazzoid's review.
Read more recent features
here.
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