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The
Fifth Annual Wall Street Jazz Festival
When: Saturday
August 2, 2008 - 5:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Where: North
Front Street and Wall street, Kingston, New York
FREE
Schedule
for Saturday, August 2nd:
5:00-5:30:
The River Jazz Choir
5:45-6:45:
Jamie Baum Quintet
7:00-8:00:
Sweet Sue Terry Quartet
8:15-9:15:
Jenny Scheinman Quartet with Allison Miller
9:30-11:00:
Estrella Samba y Salsa
Directions
to the Festival
From the NYS
Thruway Exit 19 or Route 28: Take the Washington Ave. exit from the
traffic circle. For Free Parking and shuttle bus to Festival, go left
on Schwenk Drive. [map]
Wall
Street Jazz Festival Announces 2008 Line Up
On
Saturday, August 2nd, the Wall Street Jazz Festival will bring some
of the most exciting acts in jazz today to Uptown Kingston. A truly
stellar line up of women-led ensembles will perform on the outdoor
stage at the corner of Wall and North Front Streets in a free concert
from 5:00 to 11:00pm. This year will also mark the start of a series
of workshops on the afternoon of Sunday August 3rd at various spaces
around Uptown, where music lovers of all ages can learn more about
American jazz.
Appearing
at the festival this year will be the Jenny Scheinman Quartet, the
Sweet Sue Terry Quartet, The Jamie Baum Septet, and Peggy
Sterns Estrella Latin Band.
Singer,
violin player, composer and arranger Jenny Scheinman is committed to
breaking down boundaries of culture and influence. A killer
player. according to The New York Times, Scheinman has worked
alongside Norah Jones, Bill Frisell, Lucinda Williams, Madeleine
Peyroux, and Marc Ribot . Scheinman has taken the #1 Rising Star
Violinist title in the Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll and has been
listed as one of their Top Ten Overall Violinists for the past five
years. This May, Koch Records will simultaneously release two Jenny
Scheinman CDs: a self-titled vocal debut, and her fifth instrumental
album, Crossing The Field.
Superwoman
of Jazz Sweet Sue Terry is a force of nature who
has been universally recognized among her musician peers for
decades as one of the most articulate players of the alto
saxophone." A crowd pleaser with a fiery expressiveness
that got the crowd cheering and urging her on, Sweet Sue has
played and recorded with a long list of jazz notables including Dr.
Billy Taylor, Clark Terry, Clifford Jordan, Hilton Ruiz, Howard
Johnson, Art Blakey, Carmen McRae, Jon Faddis, Wynton Marsalis, and
Ray Barretto. Shes been a Jazz soloist with the National
Symphony, the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the New York Pops, and has
performed at jazz festivals worldwide. Her discography currently
contains over forty commercially released CDs. In short, She smokes!
Down Beat
Critics Poll Best Flutist for three years running, Jamie
Baum ...is that rare double-threat: a musician who can play and
write equally well. Originally from Connecticut, she has been
involved in projects performing classical and new music, from
Brazilian to Indian and Latin music. Her CDs have been on all the
best jazz Best lists and she has worked with a wide range
of artists including Randy Brecker, Paul Motian, John Abercrombie,
and Kenny Barron. As Jazzwise Magazine put it, Baums
playing is both imaginative and technically impressive, her front
line and rhythm section are no less impressive and the combination
adds up to a genuine collective strength and musical depth.
"Everything
she writes wants to dance. And in Wall Street Jazz Festival
tradition, so will you when you hear pianist/composer Peggy
Sterns Estrella Latin Band, featuring Italian saxophonist
Giulio Martino. With "Luminous lyricism...the piano more
caressed than played... Ms Stern is as well-known as a composer
as she is for her fine piano playing, with four of her tunes featured
in the Sher Real Book series. Peggy has played with such jazz greats
as Lee Konitz, Diane Schuur, Stanley Turentine, David Fathead Newman,
and Emily Remler. Peggy's music draws from Brazilian, African,
Jewish, Irish, Cuban, as well as traditional jazz influences.
Acclaimed tenor and soprano saxophonist Giulio Martino will be
joining Peggy for this event. Voted one of the Best New
Talents by the Italian Musica Jazz in 2005, Giulio
has played with many of Italys jazz elite, has played with Ms
Stern at top jazz festivals all over the world.
This
festival had a lot that made it special-- the spirit from which it
all blossomed, the fact that all of us share a lifetime and
commitment to this wonderful artform: jazz , the lack of any
pretension and or competition, the feeling of friendship and support
, the fact that it happened on Wall St , Kingston. Sumi
Tonooka
I
have had many people make mention of it to me: how thrilled they were
about the event, the location, the talent, the set up, the sound,...
and with hopes that it can materialize again next year!-- Betty
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