The Countdown Continues… 10 Reasons to Attend the Jazz Festival The Healdsburg Jazz Festival kicks off officially on Friday June 4, and continues for a week and two weekends with headliners and sidelights, events large and intimate. Some of our stars are flying in from the Big Apple, some from L.A., but some are our friends and neighbors. Which brings us to another of 10 Reasons to Attend the Healdsburg
Art of the Solo Guitar A tribute to the late Jimmy Wyble Dedicated to the memory of Taku Sakashta Oscar Castro-Neves, Romero Lubambo, Sid Jacobs, Bobby Vega, Ricardo Peixoto, Randy Vincent, Christian Foley-Beining, Kai Devitt-Lee and Kevin O’Neal (with vocalist Patrice Quinn) Morning Workshop | Benefit Auction Location Healdsburg Time: Noon to 3 pm Tickets $15.00, $10.00 for students and seniors (65+) Event sponsors: Healdsburg Guitar Festival, Allied Lutherie Following the
Art of the Solo Guitar Morning: Guitar Workshop Afternoon Concert | Benefit Auction Workshop: Making Music Part of Your Life Time: 10 am to noon Location: Announced upon confirmed registration Information and registration: 707 431-0125 Free to all students of primary or secondary school age with an interest in music. Presented by Ribbecke Guitars and Jazz Masters Workshop Instructors: Bobby Vega and Tom Ribbecke Bassist Bobby Vega and guitar maker Tom
Oscar Castro-Neves | Leny Andrade & Romero Lubambo | Claudia Villela | Brasilia “Stars of Brazil” Sunday June 6 – Bossa Nova on the Green Location: Recreation Park Address: Piper at University, Healdsburg Two shows: 12:30 – 6:30 pm Tickets: $30 General, $20 Students or Seniors (65+), Children 10 and under free Oscar Castro-Neves Quartet “Oscar can capture the soul of Brazil in a few guitar chords, all the joy
Jason Moran | Gretchen Parlato | Dafnis Prieto “Keepers of the Flame” Jason Moran Trio with special guest Bill Frisell Location: Rodney Strong Vineyards Address: 11455 Old Redwood Highway, Healdsburg Time: 2 pm, gates open at 1 pm Tickets: $45.00, $30.00 for students & seniors (65+) Children 10 and under are free Jason Moran emerged in the late 1990s in the quartet of altoist and ace talent scout Greg Osby,
Our Saturday Night at the Raven concert brings bass legend Charlie Haden back to town, with two musicians his rare equal — Geri Allen on piano, and Ravi Coltrane on sax. It’s sure to be a night with deep genetic ties to the origins and furthest expressions of jazz.
Friday Night at the Raven Esperanza Spalding Group Tacuma King and the Children’s Percussion Workshop Location: Raven Theater Address: 115 North Street, Healdsburg Time: 8:00 pm (please note start time) Tickets: $45 General, $65 Gold Circle “Whether exploding into vocalese or making her bass solo sound like a horn, she’s a spark plug who dances as she grooves through a funked-up and rocked-out repertoire.”—Billboard From Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie
Benefactors Dinner and Concert George Cables Trio with Craig Handy and the Healdsburg High School Jazz Band Location: Coppola Winery Address: 300 Via Archimedes, Geyserville Time: 6 pm Tickets: Limited availability, by invitation only As a special thank you to our benefactors this year, the Healdsburg Jazz Festival will be hosting a Benefactor’s Dinner at the newly remodeled Francis Ford Coppola Winery. Supporters of the Festival will glimpse the Coppola winery
Wednesday at the Raven George Cables Trio with Shea Breaux Wells and the Christian Foley-Beining Quartet featuring Paul McCandless Location: Raven Theater Address: 115 North Street, Healdsburg Time: 7:30 pm Tickets: $15 General, $10 Students or Seniors (65+) George Cables, the inimitable pianist dubbed “Mr. Beautiful” by altoist Art Pepper, has played an essential role in the Healdsburg Jazz Festival since the beginning. A creative foil for jazz’s most prodigious
Free Concert in the Plaza Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco Location: Recreation Park Address: Piper at University, Healdsburg Time: 6 – 8:00 pm Free concert The town of Healdsburg is well known for its yearly series of free concerts, Tuesdays in the Plaza. It’s been a tradition for over a decade that the official kick-off of this series features jazz from the Healdsburg Jazz Festival. 2010 is no
Stars of Brazil Bossa Nova on the Green Oscar Castro-Neves & Friends Leny Andrade and Romero Lubambo Duo Claudia Villela Band and Brasilia Location: Recreation Park Address: Piper at University, Healdsburg Time: 12:30 – 6:30 pm (one show) Tickets: $30 General, $20 Students or Seniors (65+), Children 10 and under free In the five decades since bossa nova burst onto the international music scene, Brazil has enriched the world with
The Future Is Now! Jazz Visionaries Join Forces in Wine Country Rising stars and veteran masters to fill Healdsburg with virtuoso performances in the Festival’s 12th Season Healdsburg, Calif. — Jazz’s dizzying rate of evolution means that every five or six years a new generation takes root. Healdsburg presents a thrilling international cast of improvisers, from artists who defined their era half a century ago to today’s most innovative musicians,
March 17, 2010 Dear Music Lovers, During a recent trip to New York, I had the great fortune to experience a thriving and vibrant jazz scene. The fuel for this scene was being generated by dozens of young artists, some of whom I’d never heard of. I was amazed by the fresh sounds of such talent as Jason Moran, Gretchen Parlato, Dafnis Prieto and Peter Apfelbaum. Their performances were so
“Ackamoor’s name might now be spoken with the same hushed reverence afforded such other cosmic travelers as Alice Coltrane, Don Cherry & Pharaoh Sanders.”
Happy Hour, a virtuosic collective acclaimed for its unique three-horn sound, will donate the proceeds of its February 5 concert at the Jazzschool in Berkeley to support Haitian Relief Efforts.