…a sampling of Jazz news deserving of a post rather than a roll, a blogroll
The resurgent Omara Portuondo shared the spirit of Cuba at Dominion-Chalmers United Church in Ottawa, Canada, February 17, 2011. Produced by the Ottawa Jazz Festival, 79 year-old Portuondo returned to the Canadian capital on the heels of a sell-out concert with the Buena Vista Social Club. (Source: Ottawa Jazz Festival)
Omara Portuondo – Lead Vocal
Swami Jr. – Guitar and Musical Director
Harold Lopez Nussa – Piano
Felipe Cabrera – Double Bass
Andrés Coayo – Percussion
Rodney Yllarza Barreto – Drums
>>>> Monvelyno Alexis and Markus Schwartz’s Vo-Duo celebrated the birthday of Beatle, George Harrison, with a 35-minute long set at Mercury Lounge, New York on Sunday, February 13, 2011. (Source:Vo-Duo on Reverbnation)
>>>> Virtuoso trumpet player and jazz legend Arturo Sandoval, accompanied by his 18-piece orchestra performed Saturday, February 12, 2011 at the Ventura County Fairgrounds to headline the Ventura Music Festival. (Source: Jazz Police)
>>>> Martinique’s Jacques Schwarz-Bart presented The Quartet - Leon Parker, Baptiste Trotignon and Thomas Bramerie – at Duc des Lombard in Paris, France from February 2-4, 2011.
Turo takes on Bequia
When the calendar rolled over to January 26, 2011 in Bequia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the bold print at the top of it was the 8th Bequia Mount Gay Music Festival. Nestled in the midst of the Music Festival was another festival called the Mustique Blues Festival organised by Basil Charles and Dana Gillespie. Taken together, it was four days of ear candy held at various locations. (Now, name me another festival-in-a-festival, anywhere in the world!)
The welcome mat was laid out for a steelpan orchestra, Blues and Jazz ‘n’ Blues bands, a Rock, Hip-Hop and Pop band, a Jazz, Blues and Rock band and a String Band. In came a London Blues Band, a Blues pianist, a trumpeter and a guitarist from the US, a piano and sax duo from out of Europe and singer Marie Claire (Giraud) from the Commonwealth of Dominica. But it is to De Reef in Lower Bay on the second big night of the double-festival that we go for the Caribbean Clash. In one corner was the Caribbean’s saxiest man, virtuoso Barbadian saxophonist Arturo Tappin…
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