It’s practically impossible to succinctly review 100 concerts. And there’ve been nearly that many since we issued last week’s piece on the Rochester International Jazz Festival’s opening weekend. For those who missed out: our sympathy. This year’s RIJF was the best yet in terms of programming and (despite a few initial snags) overall organization. Over […]
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Opening notes: Jazz Fest in review
Four years along and the Rochester International Jazz Festival seems to be doing just fine. Throughout opening weekend, almost every Club Pass venue was filled to capacity as late-comers were turned away. But our music writers were there for all of it. Following is a compilation of their impressions from the festival’s first couple days. […]
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Expressing his Spanish heart
Over the last five decades, few musicians have had the continuous impact of Chick Corea. While in Miles Davis’ late 1960s band, he was among the first trailblazers to take on the electric keyboard. Later, he helped define the fusion movement, leading groups like Return to Forever and writing compositions, like “Spain,” that transcended the […]
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Rochester International Jazz Festival 2005
500 musicians. 100 acts. Nine days. Feel confused? You’re far from alone. It actually struck us last year, as we wandered between sets from Max of Eastman Place to Montage Grille while distant brass and percussion bounced off the Eastman Theatre and down Gibbs Street: The Rochester International Jazz Festival, now in its fourth year, […]
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On screen: ‘Miles Electric’
The jazz film makes a welcome reappearance in the RIJF lineup this year. On Wednesday, June 15, at the Eastman Theatre, you can relive the great plugged-in controversy as it related to Davis, not Dylan, during a free 8 p.m. screening of Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue. The history books tend to throw […]
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Alive
500 musicians. 100 acts. Nine days. Feel confused? You’re far from alone. It actually struck us last year, as we wandered between sets from Max of Eastman Place to Montage Grille while distant brass and percussion bounced off the Eastman Theatre and down Gibbs Street: The Rochester International Jazz Festival, now in its fourth year, […]
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Music from the first voice
Kahil El’Zabar takes percussion from Africa to America
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Roll call
To take full advantage of all RIJF has to offer, you have some planning to do. Read this section for short descriptions of almost every act in the festival. Our critics — Frank De Blase, Ron Netsky, Chad Oliveiri, and Saby Reyes-Kulkarni — have tried to give you the information you need to decide which […]
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In her dreams
Juana Molina’s nighttime missives have been keeping us happily awake
