MJA Festival schedule
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- Dylan sideman Denny Freeman is worth the whole ticket
MJA Festival schedule
Charleston Post Courier (subscription) – Sep 23, 2007
For information and reservations call Joseph Blake 568-0154. JHN STREET JAZZ: Live jazz music and fine arts featuring Charleston’s first lady of jazz Ann Caldwell and her ensemble Loose Fit. Cool relaxing jazz at Gallery Chuma 43 John St. $20 students $15 with ID.
Hyde Park betting music will lure crowds to festival: Hyde Park…
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 23, 2007
So does the creativity of the staging for these artists will play in some of Hyde Park’s most distinctive venues bringing hard-hitting jazz improvisation to rooms where it does not typically unfold such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic Robie House. Hyde Park not only is rediscovering its jazz past it seems but officially embracing it as a lure for local tourism. “There are so many people in Chicago who simply don’t go south of Roosevelt Road” says James Wagner president of the Hyde Park Jazz Society which programmed the new festival. “n the North Side a lot of people just don’t think of it. ” Adds Judith Stein another festival planner “So many people know the Museum of Science and Industry and don’t think of Hyde.
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Seattle Times – Sep 23, 2007
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Seattle Times – Sep 23, 2007
ne section is devoted to Scotland where his parents are from. The store has several cozy seating areas and a owner who enjoys sharing his labor of love with his customers. He recently added live jazz music to the bookstore on the first and third Friday nights of each month. “I wanted to create a place where people can sit down and relax” Charles said. “I call it the bookstore at the edge of the world. For more information about Baker Street Books visit.
Jeff Lofton: ‘An Evening of the Music of Miles Davis’
Austin 360 – Austin 360 (subscription) – Sep 23, 2007
Profile AA-S Best Bet: Listen up Miles Davis fans. Local jazz group the Jeff Lofton Quintet brings “An Evening of the Music of Miles Davis” to the historic Victory Grill tonight. Lofton who debuted his self-produced “Jazz Therapy” in 2005 has been playing jazz trumpet for nearly thirty years. The virtuoso studied music composition and jazz at the University of South Carolina and has performed with the likes of Jim Mings Ron Westray Wycliff Gordon (of the Wynton Marsalis septet) and Fred Wesley (of James Brown’s horn section) among many others. — Shannon McGarvey AA-S Best Bet: According to Jeff Lofton’s biography he studied music composition and jazz at the University of South Carolina and has played the trumpet for almost 30 years. With decades of experience under his belt Lofton has performed in music venues across Chicago and New York City and released his first jazz album “Jazz Therapy” in 2005… Local jazz group the Jeff Lofton Quintet brings “An Evening of the Music of Miles Davis” to the historic Victory Grill tonight. Lofton who debuted his self-produced “Jazz Therapy” in 2005 has been playing jazz trumpet for nearly thirty years. The virtuoso studied music composition and jazz at the University of South Carolina and has performed with the likes of Jim Mings Ron Westray Wycliff Gordon (of the Wynton Marsalis septet) and Fred Wesley (of James Brown’s horn section) among many others. — Shannon McGarvey AA-S Best Bet: According to Jeff Lofton’s biography he studied music composition and jazz at the University of South Carolina and has played the trumpet for almost 30 years. With decades of experience under his belt Lofton has performed in music venues across Chicago and New York City and released his first jazz album “Jazz Therapy” in 2005. Lofton’s self-produced album is said to mix old and news styles of jazz in the convention of Miles Davis Dizzy Gillespie and John Coltrane. “Jazz Therapy” also includes Roland Haynes on piano Reggie Sullivan on bass and Kenneth Salters on drums.
Chopteeth: Concerts and Music Events on washingtonpost.com’s City…
Washington Post – Sep 23, 2007
“I thought he was insane” says Shereikis. (In fact the band takes its name from a Kuti song meaning “crazy person. “) “But my one stipulation was that we mix it up with rumba highlife jazz and other kinds of music. We play a lot of Fela’s music but we’re going in a new direction. ” As the band has grown to include members such as Kenyan singer Anna Mwalagho the superb trumpeter Justine Miller and reedman Mark Gilbert (who’s played with everybody from the Temptations to Root Boy Slim) the influences have expanded even further. The band’s first CD — planned for release by the end of the year — will be “a strange new crop of songs” says Shereikis. Reinventing Afrobeat may be the key to its survival its proponents say.
Dylan sideman Denny Freeman is worth the whole ticket
Providence Journal – Sep 23, 2007
The man’s an exquisite player — more about style and tone and taste than sheer speed. Freeman loves chords and space. He has a broad range of tastes: jazz silky ballads surf music ’60s wah-wah pedal. And he has a great ear for the blues. Freeman is a charter member of the Austin blues scene. The Vaughan brothers have known him as a friend a bandmate a roommate and mentor. Freeman lived a blues life for a long time playing music at night doing construction work during the day.