Jan 21, 2025 7:54 PM
Southern California Fires Hit the Jazz Community
Roy McCurdy and his wife had just finished eating dinner and were relaxing over coffee in their Altadena home, when he…
The 2007 JVC Jazz Festival - New York takes over the city June 17–30 with more than 300 artists in nearly 200 concerts and events at 28 venues in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and reaching as far as Philadelphia.
Festival highlights include 80th birthday celebrations for Eartha Kitt and Lee Konitz; 70th birthday festivities for Ron Carter and Nancy Wilson; the return of Patti LaBelle and Cesaria Evora; salutes to Benny Carter, Ruby Braff, Jimmy McPartland and Phoebe Jacobs; a concert pairing with Branford Marsalis and Joshua Redman at The Town Hall; and six free concerts at New York City and Philadelphia.
“Every year, it gets more challenging to present a great festival; but every year, I believe we succeed,” said George Wein, chairman of Festival Productions. “This year, visitors can count on two weeks of outstanding music featuring some of the best of traditional, straight-ahead, contemporary, Big Band, Second Line, R & B, Latin, world music and more.”
Tickets are now on sale.
For more information and the complete schedule of events, visit: www.festivalproductions.net
Gerald and John Clayton at the family home in Altadena during a photo shoot for the June 2022 cover of DownBeat. The house was lost during the Los Angeles fires.
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