The 37th annual Savannah Jazz Festival kicks off with some of the city’s finest, and youngest, musicians.
Savannah Jazz Festival
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Latin People Time brings classic Salsa sound to Savannah Jazz Festival
THE SAVANNAH JAZZ FESTIVAL brings a great variety of music to local stages over the next two weeks — not all of it the typical idea of what jazz is. […]
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Eric Gales’ guitar love affair
He’s had major label deals, done big tours and festivals, and consistently released albums of original music that fuse a wide range of genres
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Savannah Jazz Festival: Carmen Bradford
Bradford took an interest in singing when she was just four or five
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Editor’s Note: The arts are still our best investment
The City rightly and responsibly expects cultural organizations to diversify their funding streams and not be overly reliant on taxpayer largesse. Most administrations, however, have seen the value of the investment not only for political purposes, but also because it’s just the right thing to do.
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The Grinch That Stole Culture?
LOCAL arts and cultural organizations got an unpleasant holiday surprise late last week in the form of an unexpected, across-the-board proposal to slash City arts funding. The $200,000 cut, part […]
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Savannah Jazz Festival: A new generation
Pack a picnic, round up some friends, and feel the breeze on your skin as world-class jazz bathes the Forsyth Park lawn
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Talking with… Teddy Adams
SAVANNAH TROMBONIST Teddy Adams just finished the first draft of a book chronicling his career in jazz. And there’s a chapter in it called “Conversations.” “There’s a lot of trivia in […]
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Fall Arts Preview: Festival Calendar
Oktoberfest Oct. 3-5, River Street Weiner dogs, German beer, oompah bands. And pretzels! www.riverstreetsavannah.com 33rd Annual Savannah Jazz Festival Sept. 21-27 Forsyth Park, Habersham Village, B&D Burgers Headliners Sept. 27: […]
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Doug and Jean Carn: The First Couple of Black Jazz
“There was this engineer who had his own mixing studio in his house in Santa Monica,” Doug Carn recalls. “He mixed for motion picture soundtracks, and he charged $200 an hour. And I had $200. I said ‘The album is 52 minutes long.'”
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Savannah Jazz Festival: Tom Scott
“I had done that one record with Joni Mitchell, and she said ‘Listen, will your band record on my next album?'” he recalls.
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Guitarist Martino to headline 2011 Savannah Jazz Festival
Guitarist Pat Martino will headline the 2011 Savannah Jazz Festival, Sept. 24 in Forsyth Park. That’s the penultimate day of the always-free musical celebration, which will open on Sept. 18 […]