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 Stern’s 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. She’s 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, “Baum’s 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 Stern’s 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 Italy’s 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 MacDonald

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