And that’s it for the 2018 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival. The festival reported more than 208,000 people in attendance. Catch up on the nine days of action with our reviews of 79 acts
Jazz Festival Reviews
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Jazz Fest 2017, Day 3: Frank catches Bill Kirchen and reviews Jack Broadbent and John Paul White
< Master blaster of the Telecaster Bill Kirchen literally blew the roof off the joint at Abilene. Okay, it was a tent out back, but we did have liftoff. To show what a beautiful talent this man is: while the gusts of inclemency threatened to jettison the tent again, Kirchen held things down with his […]
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Jazz Fest 2017, Day 1: Ron reviews Roberta Picket, Yggdrasil, and Tierney Sutton
Roberta Piket began her set at Hatch Hall, Friday night, with a kind of call and response between her right hand and her left on the Steinway grand piano. The dialog ranged from sparse melodies answered by blunt chords to lush clusters answered by pounding bass. Eventually all of this morphed into “Monk’s Dream,” the […]
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Jazz Fest 2015, Day 4: Daniel reviews Blue Highway, The Soul Rebels, and Stephane Wrembel (again)
On Monday night, the members of Blue Highway brought a more traditional bluegrass approach to the Squeezers Roots & Americana Stage. This sound had less swagger and more twang than The HillBenders from three nights before. And while the music of Blue Highway was perfectly pleasant, it felt staid — almost commonplace — lacking the […]
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Jazz Fest 2015, Day 2: Ron reviews Joey Alexander, Benny Green Trio, and Andrew McCormack Quartet
I entered Hatch Hall — where keyboard wunderkind Joey Alexander was about to play — with a lot of questions. Can a young Indonesian boy really know the American idiom of jazz? Can any 11-year-old, without significant life experience, know the meaning of what he’s playing? And could reincarnation be real; could it be that […]
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JAZZ FEST 2015: City’s Daily Jazz Blogs
The 2015 Xerox International Jazz Festival runs Friday, June 19, through Saturday, June27, and City Newspaper will be out EVERY NIGHT of the festival, covering multiple shows. Check in first thing each morning for photos and reviews of the previous night’s entertainment, listed below by date. For up-to-the-minute coverage of the festival follow City on […]
