City Newspaper's guide to the 2009 RIJF. All the bios, interviews, schedules, and details you need to enjoy the festival, which runs June 12-20 in downtown Rochester.
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The name may be new - it's now called the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival - but as always, the RIJF offers plenty of bang for your buck. The 2009 edition will feature more than 100 artists and groups converging on Rochester for nine...
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The full day-by-day schedule for the 2009 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, taking place June 12-20.
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City Newspaper's takes on the nearly 100 acts playing as part of the 2009 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (June 12-20).
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FRIDAY, JUNE 12 4:30 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 5:15 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 5:30 p.m.: Jazz Mandolin Project Harro East Ballroom The Jazz Mandolin Project's Jamie...
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SATURDAY, JUNE 13 4:30 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 5:15 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 5:30 p.m.: Benny Goodman Salute w/Ken Peplowski Harro East Ballroom The undisputed...
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SUNDAY, JUNE 14 4:30 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 5 p.m.: WXXI Jazz Films Eastman Theatre Once upon a time in the 1970's, top national jazz musicians made regular visits to the Rochester, and WXXI TV filmed...
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MONDAY, JUNE 15 4:30 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 5:15 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 5:30 p.m.: Cedar Walton Quartet Harro East Ballroom From his early days with Kenny...
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TUESDAY, JUNE 16 4:30 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 5:15 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 5:30 p.m.: Holly Cole Harro East Ballroom If you're not hip to her already, Holly...
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 4:30 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 5:15 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 5:30 p.m.: Bonerama Harro East Ballroom Bonerama: almost as fun to say as it is...
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THURSDAY, JUNE 18 4:30 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 5:15 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 5:30 p.m.: Alex Acuna 3 Harro East Ballroom Acuna takes traditional Latin rhythms...
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FRIDAY, JUNE 19 4:30 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 5:15 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 6 p.m.: Half Ton Horns Jazz Street Stage Specializing in true-to-the-original...
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SATURDAY, JUNE 20 4:30 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 5:15 p.m.: Rochester Area High School Jazz Bands Jazz Street Stage 6 p.m.: Rochester Metro Jazz Orchestra Jazz Street Stage 6 p.m.: Joe Lovano...
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If you're a jazz aficionado coming to Rochester for the jazz festival, there are plenty of hotel, travel, and dining options for you to choose from. Visit Rochester -- formerly known as the Greater Rochester Visitors Association -- is a good...
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It would be difficult to name a late-20th-century American songwriter with more classics under his belt than Smokey Robinson. Tunes like "The Tracks of My Tears," "I Second That Emotion," and "The Tears of a Clown" made Robinson's group, The...
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Frenchman Stephane Wrembel calls his music "gypsy jam," a hybrid of world music dominated by his gypsy guitar. At the heart of this music, and in the heart of Wrembel, stands Django Reinhardt, the undefeated master of gypsy jazz guitar....
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The scene is the Newport Jazz Festival, 1958. One great act follows another, including Thelonious Monk and Dinah Washington. Then Chico Hamilton's group takes the stage and begins the ballad "Blue Sands." Playing a hypnotic pattern with mallets,...
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Each year's Rochester International Jazz Fest has its darling; that one artist, that one show, that one moment that has everyone going ga-ga. Norah Jones floored 'em at Max, Mamadou Diabate and his koto put a soundtrack to splendid...
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When a beautiful singer invites you back to her hotel room after the show, as Tessa Souter did at the 2007 RIJF, it could pose a moral dilemma for a married man. But it didn't. Souter had received such a warm reception from the overflow...
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At the age of 25, pianist Aaron Parks is already a veteran of the jazz scene. After years on the road with top artists, he recently released his debut album on the prestigious Blue Note label. One listen to "Invisible Cinema" is all it...
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