OKAN and Albino Mbie will play Montage Music Hall on Friday and Saturday, respectively.
Rochester International Jazz Festival
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The ultimate guide to the 2022 festival season
If you want to survive in this jungle of festivals, you need a good guide. This is it.
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Rochester Jazz Festival relents to reality, cancels 2020 season
The CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival, planned for October, has been canceled and is scheduled to resume in June 2021.
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Two jazz fest headliner acts rescheduled
The CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival has set new October dates for its headlining shows featuring Puss N Boots and Spyro Gyra.
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Rochester’s summer festivals are gone – but hope remains for fall
The city has stopped issuing permits for special events through August. Festival organizers are being told to start planning for the fall.
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Jazz Festival canceled; fall date being considered
Rochester’s heavy summer festival season has already taken many hits, including the cancellation of the Lilac Festival.
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RIJF names three headliners for 2020
Spyro Gira, Nile Rodgers & Chic, plus Garth Fagan Dance with the Monty Alexander Sextet will headline the 2020 Rochester International Jazz Festival. Puss N Boots, Wynonna & The Big Noise
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2019 Rochester Jazz Festival names new headliners
Patti LaBelle, Marc Cohn and The Blind Boys of Alabama, and Jeff Goldblum have all been added to the festival lineup.
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CGI Communications takes over Jazz Festival sponsorship
The Rochester International Jazz Festival is getting a new title sponsor. The festival for 10 years has had Xerox at the head of its name, but festival organizers announced Tuesday that CGI Communications will now take on the sponsorship. Full name: CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival Presented by M&T Bank. CGI Communications, a digital marketing […]
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Jazz Fest Feature: Brendan Lanighan
Frank’s biggest thrill is talking to artists on the ground floor as they wait for the elevator to ding its arrival. One such lad is Brendan Lanighan, a young Eastman grad and trombone player who has just started to make waves
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INTERVIEW: Seal
There is a certain amount of class and caution that’s required when an artist takes on standards. Not only are people hearing the interpretation, they also hear the original version dancing in their head. It’s a precarious position for an artist to be in: somewhere between honoring a tune’s legacy and putting just the right […]
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INTERVIEW: Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot
Brian Setzer is the gateway drug. It doesn’t matter how cool you think you are, if you’re of this generation and know anything about rockabilly, you learned it because of Brian Setzer. If artists like Warren Smith, The Johnny Burnette Trio, Gene Vincent, and Eddie Cochran are in your record collection, it’s because of Brian […]
