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  • WBGO Travel: Newport Jazz Festival Day Trips

    May 1, 2013. Posted by Brandy Wood.

    Add new comment | Filed under: anat cohen, Bill Charlap, chick corea, eddie palmieri, Esperanza Spalding, gregory porter, hiromi, jim hall, joshua redman, marcus miller, newport, Newport Jazz Festival, Robert Glasper, roy haynes, terence blanchard, wayne shorter, wbgo, WBGO Travel

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    WBGO Travel invites you to hop aboard the bus from either New York City (Jazz at Lincoln Center, 10 Columbus Circle) or Boston (Wally's Jazz Café located at 427 Massachusetts Avenue) for a direct ride to the front gate of the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island on Saturday August 3 or Sunday, August 4. This excursion includes: admission to the festival for the full day plus food & beverage vouchers for the Louis Jadot Café on the festival grounds.

    Saturday musical line-up highlights include:

    • Esperanza Spalding - Radio Music Society
    • Wayne Shorter's 80th Birthday Celebration
    • Robert Glasper Experiment
    • Gregory Porter
    • Terence Blanchard Quintet
    • Bill Charlap Trio with special guests Bob Wilber & Anat Cohen
    • Marcus Miller

    Sunday musical line-up highlights include:

    • Chick Corea & The Vigil with Christian McBride, Tim Garland,
    • Marcus Gilmore, & Charles Altura
    • Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra
    • Dizzy Gillespie™ Big Band under the direction of Paquito D'Rivera
    • Hiromi: The Trio Project with Anthony Jackson & Steve Smith
    • Joshua Redman Quartet
    • Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band
    • Jim Hall Quartet with Scott Colley, Lewis Nash and special guest Julian Lage

    Visit newportjazzfest.net for full listing.

    Details of RT New York City to Newport trip:

    • Bus trip available Saturday and Sunday – board the bus at 5AM at Jazz at Lincoln Center (10 Columbus Circle NY, NY) located at The Time Warner Building at the front circle.
    • Return Bus will depart from Newport Festival Front Gate at the end of the days concert festivities, approximately 7 PM and take guests back to Jazz at Lincoln Center
    • Bus will have wifi, restroom, reclining bucket seats and Newport Jazz Festival themed movie.
    • Meal vouchers are valued at $20 and can be used for food & drink at the Louis Jadot Café located on the festival grounds.

    Details of RT Boston to Newport trip:

    In partnership with JazzBoston a nonprofit advocacy organization that connects, supports, and promotes the entire Greater Boston jazz scene, we are pleased to offer a RT bus trip to the Newport Jazz Festival.

    • Bus trip available Saturday and Sunday – board the bus at 8AM at the historic Wally's Jazz Café located at 427 Massachusetts Avenue (accessible by T and bus - Orange Line to Mass. Ave. Station, Green Line to Symphony Station, or #1 bus to Columbus Ave). Arrive at Wally’s between 7:30 and 8AM for coffee and donuts compliments of JazzBoston.
    • Return Bus will depart from Newport Festival Front Gate at the end of the days concert festivities, approximately 7 PM and take guests back to Wally's Jazz Café.
    • Bus will have wifi, restroom, reclining bucket seats and Newport Jazz Festival themed movie.
    • Meal vouchers are valued at $20 and can be used for food & drink at the Louis Jadot Café located on the festival grounds.

    Festival Gates open at 10AM, Saturday Festival Music Program: 10:45AM-7PM, Sunday Festival Music Program: 11AM-6:45PM

    Rates & Reservations:

     

    New York/Newport
    WBGO Member & partner (with code) price per person: $215
    Non-Member price per person: $235

    Boston/Newport
    WBGO Member & JazzBoston partner (with code) price per person: $175
    Non-Member price per person:     $195


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    For questions or reservations call 973-624-8880 x269 or email events@wbgo.org. Please indicate either New York or Boston origin

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    © 2013 WBGO

  • Great Live Moments - Michel Petrucciani

    April 28, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.

    Add new comment | Filed under: bassist, big sur, blue note records, bones disease, cerra, charles lloyd, death in 1999, eliot zigmund, glass bones, jazz world, jim hall, Listening Post, Live Music, michel petrucciani, montreux, morning sunrise, one of my favorites, ron mcclure, thon, three feet, wayne shorter, wbgo jazz

    Michel Petrucciani

    In 1985, Dorthaan Kirk presented Jazz-a-Thon, a marathon of live music that doubled as a fundraiser for WBGO. It attracted some of the jazz world's biggest talent.
    Pianist Michel Petrucciani was both the smallest and largest that jazz had to offer that year. He was three feet tall and little more than fifty pounds, due to osteogenesis imperfecta, the rare "Glass Bones" disease. Yet he had one of the greatest commands of the piano - one that was classically virtuosic, effusively romantic, and heavily improvised. By this time, Michel had recently toured with Charles Lloyd, whom Petrucciani had nudged from retirement at California's Big Sur. Michel was now on the east coast, with his own band. Specifically, he was the Ritz in New York, with bassist Ron McClure and drummer Eliot Zigmund. Petrucciani had just signed with the recently revived Blue Note Records. In December of 1985, he recorded his extraordinary debut for the label, Pianism, followed by one of my favorites, Power of Three, a live concert from Montreux with Wayne Shorter and Jim Hall. Michel Petrucciani played until his death in 1999, age 36.
    Listen to "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise," from the WBGO Jazz-a-Thon.

    You can also read Steve Cerra's blog post about Michel Petrucciani here.
    -Josh

    © 2008 WBGO

  • Jimmy Giuffre Dies at 86/An Update on Jim Hall

    April 26, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.

    Add new comment | Filed under: arts music, jazz, Jazz Community, jim hall, jimmy giuffre, Listening Post, Masters, nytimes, obituary, Video, wbgo

    Jimmy Giuffre died on Thursday, a few days shy of his 87th birthday. Fans of jazz know Giuffre as the composer of the Woody Herman hit, "Four Brothers." Beyond that, Giuffre had a unique mind for music. As I listened to Sonny Rollins' "A Night at the Village Vanguard" yesterday, a record without piano or chordal instrumentation, I thought about how demanding it is to make music like that. Jimmy Giuffre was among one of the first to try, on his record Tangents in Jazz.

    I've always liked "The Train and The River," another Giuffre work that people describe as folk-chamber-jazz. When you listen to this, you might suspect that some musicians today like Bill Frisell owe a lot to Jimmy Giuffre. Yes, they do. Anyway, here are two versions of Giuffre's trio playing "The Train and The River," one from the television program The Sound of Jazz:

     

    Then, the great trio of Giuffre, trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, and guitarist Jim Hall, from the Newport Jazz Festival documentary, Jazz on a Summer's Day.

    One of the Jimmy Giuffre Three members, Jim Hall, has undergone back surgery for the last couple of months. He has been rehabilitating, and is expected to be released on Tuesday. WBGO wishes the distinguished guitarist and NEA Jazz Master a speedy recovery. Check out Jim Hall's Great Live Moment while you're here.
    -Josh

    © 2008 WBGO