The 12th Annual Morristown Jazz & Blues Festival returns to the Morristown Green in September with outstanding jazz talent. Don't miss this great and FREE annual event! Here is this year's lineup:
- James Langton’s New York All-Star Big Band featuring Dan Levinson 12-2pm
- Frank Vignola’s Guitar Night at Birdland Band 2–4pm
- Bria Skonberg Quintet 4–6pm
- Veronica Lewis 6–8pm
- The Walter Trout Band 8–10 pm
Once again, thanks to Mayor Tim Dougherty and the Town of Morristown, music fans of all ages will enjoy great music starting at noon. Ample parking is available in the many public lots and the train station is just a couple of blocks away.
For the second year, the event pays tribute to Linda Smith and Mike Fabrizio the festival's founders who sadly passed away in 2021.
Jerry Dantzic (1925-2006) was a photojournalist from the early 1950s whose images are featured in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The International Center of Photography, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and MoMA, among others.
A pioneer in color panoramic photography, Dantzic won two Guggenheim Fellowships and had many solo and group exhibitions—including a featured show at MoMA. His photographs have been published in The New York Times, Life, LOOK, the Saturday Evening Post, Vanity Fair, and others. As an adjunct professor of photography for many years at Long Island University and at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, he lectured on art at many other institutions.
Also through August 21st: Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection highlights more photographs of jazz musicians captured by photographers who are as dynamic as their subjects. The collection of images portrays jazz music and its practitioners as honest, sensual, and improvisational; a genre historically at the forefront of African American music.
Hear the next generation of powerhouse jazz vocalists at “The SASSY Awards,” honoring the legacy of Sarah Vaughan at the 11th Annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. Better yet, get enter the contest!
The competition recalls the humble beginnings of legendary jazz singer/NEA Jazz Master Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990) who, back in 1942, was a Newark teenager and winner of an amateur singing contest at the Apollo Theater.
Solo vocalists from around the world are encouraged to submit their entries before September 6, 2022, by visiting SarahVaughanCompetition.com.
In the Fall 2022, the top five finalists will be announced followed by a star-studded final performance on the iconic NJPAC stage.
The first-prize winner of The SASSY Awards will receive a $5,000 cash award, second-place $1,500, and third-place $500.
- For the second consecutive summer, The Newark Museum of Art partners with New Jersey Symphony to bring you a vibrant outdoor series of concerts in the Alice Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden. NMOA music programs span across jazz, gospel, blues, and Broadway tunes (for adults and kids) and are curated by Visiting Curator of Performing Arts, Daryl Stewart, and WBGO host, Sheila Anderson.
- 8/3: Summer, Time and Jazz
- 8/6: Simply Simone – The Music of Nina Simone
- 8/11: A Night of Jazz and Soul with Patience Higgins and the Sugar Hill Quartet
Ticket sales will not be available on-site and must be from the Museum or Symphony website. Food and refreshments will be available for purchase, courtesy of local vendors.
Also at the museum through August 21:
The Hudson Valley Jazz Festival celebrates it’s 13th season on August 18-21 featuring Hudson Valley NY's resident jazz musicians. The event has been graced by jazz greats, Arturo O’Farrill, Bill Evans, Dave Liebman, Wallace Roney, The Vanguard Orchestra and many other top-flight artis.
Performances are produced by and at local venues with guidance and scheduling from the festival.
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This ensemble embraces a broad stylistic swath of jazz, Latin and Brazilian idioms and experiments with diverse instrumental combinations from intimate ensembles to full scale large groups.
Bill O’Connell – piano and Fender Rhodes, Lincoln Goines – bass, Robby Ameen – drums with special guests Randy Brecker – flugelhorn, Craig Handy – alto sax, Conrad Herwig – trombone, Andrea Brachfeld – flute, and Dan Carillo – guitar.
Since his debut album New Horizon, SteepleChase has been bassist, Steve LaSpina’s main outlet for his marvelous compositions. This is his 12th album as leader, and explores some of his old tunes, as well as new works. It gives the listener a rare opportunity to experience how original compositions in jazz develop after decades of live performance on stage. PERSONNEL: Steve LaSpina - bass, Joel Frahm - tenor & soprano saxophone, Luis Perdomo - piano, and Eric McPherson - drums.
Drummer, Reggie Quinerly, offers his latest album as a fond good-bye as he relocates to Los Angeles. The quintet of trumpeter Antoniene Drye, tenor saxophonist John Ellis, pianist John Chin, and bassist Sean Conly, recorded their seven tracks together in one room, old school.
Veteran alto man Andy Fusco has appeared on many sessions over the years including his work with the Buddy Rich big band and sideman duties with the likes of Walt Weiskopf and drummer Steve Smith. Bravo to Steeplechase Records who have given him the opportunity to record an album a year with this being his fifth release.
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Ken Peplowski Needs Our Help
Downbeat Magazine called Ken Peplowski "brilliantly entertaining" and his fans around the world agree. Ken is as at home on the concert stage as he is an intimate jazz club. Wherever you have seen him, he has given each of us tremendous pleasure with his masterful clarinet and saxophone playing and his warm, funny personality.
A dear friend and renowned jazz guitarist, Frank Vignola, has created a Go Fund Me Campaign, to help Ken get through his arduous, exhausting treatment for cancer, and we hope you will give him your generous support at the link below.
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