Here’s the Ticketpro link to this rather exciting event. You can buy them NOW. They are $35/$30 each. The event is Friday, July 9th, 2010 at the Festival Tent. I just bought mine. I can’t afford it and I don’t care. I’m SO EXCITED JUST THROW ME IN JAIL. More jams below.
Atlantic Jazz Festival
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Best Festival
The 2009 edition of Jazzfest was a huge blast, says executive director Sarah Watling. “It was definitely resonating with people,” she says, name-checking Belle Orchestre and The Bad Plus as just a couple of the highlights. “Opening with Kenny Garrett was an amazing night for fans,” she adds. Looking forward, 2011 is the 25th anniversary […]
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Jazz Fest review: Haggai Cohen Milo: The Secret Music Project
Friends, the secret of The Secret Music Project can now be revealed. Last night in the Sonic Temple’s intimate surroundings, Israeli composer/bassist/improvisor Haggai Cohen Milo revealed over a set of ridiculously infectious music that he’s in the soul restoration business. Yessiree. He is! Bandmates, exquisitely talented Spanish pianist Alex Conde Carrasco, Keita Ogawa, a flash-hand […]
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Jazz Fest review: V16
Stylishly boho in a loose-fitting dark, patterned shirt and soigne red scarf, Mister V16 himself stood behind a drum kit to address an anticipatory audience thronging the Festival Tent last night. Said Jerry Granelli, “We’re gonna play some music off our new CD (V16:Vancouver ’08)–a beat- and music we haven’t heard either.” Big laugh. Brandishing […]
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Jazz Fest review: Felix Stussi 5 with Ray Anderson
Swiss-born composer/bandleader/pianist Felix Stussi took the Delta Halifax’s Baronet Ballroom bandstand last night accompanied by a crack cadre of exceptional young Quebec musicians: Alexandre Cote and Bruno Lamarche on saxes, Clinton Ryder on double bass and drummer Isaiah Ceccarelli. Slide trombonist Ray Anderson was in from NYC. In a quote, Stussi said: “I have always […]
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Jazz Fest review: Spontaneous Combustion: strings
Imagine, if just for a moment, how difficult it must be. Sure. You know you’re a hot, go-to musician. Heck, you’ve been matched up with three other hotshot players by one of the very best himself, Jerry Granelli. You’ve chatted with the other guys. Good guys. Ya instantly liked them. The potential’s there for a […]
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Jazz Fest review: Spontaneous Combustion: guitars geeks assemble!
Dashed from Kenny Garrett at the Festival Tent to 1313 Hollis Street to catch what I could of Spontaneous Combustion: guitars. Wonderfully, as I slipped in admidst performance, another full-house. Fleshing out the wrapt audience, a lot of “guitar geeks” in the “house”, as Jeff Torbert later informed me. You couldn’t help noticing them. Young. […]
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Kenny Garrett wows opening night Jazz Fest crowd
OK. Fooled me. Who’d have thunk it? An all-ages full-house (from my unofficial estimate), at the conclusion of last night’s Jazz Festival opener, jumping up and down. Pogo dancing. Bouncing their bonces. Hand-clapping. Hand-jiving. Pushing voices raw, bellowing in sing-along fashion an insidiously catchy Calypso-esque melody. All merrily exorted on by no other than the […]
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Atlantic Jazz Festival Shortlist
Valery Gore is not a pseudonym. At 26, the Fort Erie native strives for creative purity and truth. But it wasn’t always this way. “Coming from where I was at when I went to school, I was classically trained and I didn’t know anything about jazz,” she says, calling from her home in Toronto. “Maybe […]
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Burning questions for Granelli about Spontaneous Combustion
Last October, a reed-thin, restlessly imaginative, master percussionist approached the Atlantic Jazz Festival’s new artistic director Lulu Healy with a concept for a scintillating festival event. He proposed matching up musicians—all renowned for their musical jouissance (over-the-top enjoyment and pleasure), whiz-bang inventiveness and a no-self-doubt command of their instruments—to create music without preordained strictures. In […]
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My summer: Shauntay Grant, poet, broadcaster
Grant is a performer who has been writing and singing as long as she can remember. After high school she did a music degree at Dalhousie and a journalism degree at King’s. She now works at the music department of the CBC and hosts the CBC Radio One program All The Best. Her children’s book […]
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Hot Summer Guide: Concerts and music festivals
Paul McCartney July 11 A Beatle is coming to Halifax. Some come down on the man for his stand against the seal hunt—though it sounds like these days most blame the militancy on his ex-wife, Heather Mills—or some say that his wanting to change the order of the songwriting credits on “Yesterday” from Lennon/McCartney to […]