Detroit International Jazz Festival

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Festival Events:

Lineup 2013:

• Aaron Diehl Trio
• Ahmad Jamal
• All We Are Saying: Bill Frisell Explores the Music of John Lennon featuring Greg Leisz, Jenny Scheinman, Tony Scherr & Kenny Wollesen
• Aquanko
• Berklee College of Music: Unlimited Perception
• Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes Piano Duo
• Central Michigan University Jazz Lab I
• Charles Lloyd & Friends featuring Bill Frisell
• Dave Liebman & Richie Beirach Duo
• Dave Murray Big Band featuring Macy Gray
• Detroit Jazz Factory Showcase
  • Scott Gwinnell Ensemble
  • Sean Dobbins Organ Quartet
• Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra – The Music of Duke Ellington, with guest soloists Alice Tillman, Shahida Nurullah & James Carter, David Berger, Conductor.
• DJF 2013 National Trumpet Comp Winner with the Gary Schunk Trio
• DJF Dave Brubeck Tribute Series featuring:
  • Brubeck Brothers Quartet
  • Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra Commission Project - Newly Commissioned arrangements of Dave Brubeck Compositions -featuring the DJFO & guest soloists
• The Detroit New Orleans Band - A Recreation of Dave & Iola Brubeck’s Dramatic Masterpiece, Conductor, Bill Meyer
• TO HOPE; A Celebration: Dave Brubeck’s Historic Mass – A Stunning Masterpiece 65 Voice Choir, String Orchestra & the Brubeck Brothers Quartet with Rick Margitza on Saxophone
• DSO Civic Jazz Orchestra
• Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway “Duke at the Roadhouse”
• Francisco Mora Catlett & AfroHORN
• Freddy Cole Quartet
• Gene Dunlap Sextet
• George Bohanon Azar Lawrence Collaboration
• Geri Allen Homecoming Band featuring Robert Hurst, JD Allen, Sheila Jordan, Dave McMurray, Karriem Riggins & George Bohanon
• Gregory Porter
• JD Allen Trio
• Joan Belgrave Sings Dinah Washington
• Johnny O’Neal Trio
• Johnny Trudell & the Michigan Jazz Fest All Stars
• Joshua Redman Quartet with Aaron Goldberg, Reuben Rogers & Gregory Hutchinson & Orchestra conducted by Dan Coleman, playing selections from the new album “Walking Shadows”
• Karriem Riggins
• Kimmie Horne
• Lee Konitz Quartet
• Mack Avenue Superband Musical Director Rodney Whitaker featuring Kirk Whalum, Carl Allen, Gary Burton, Sean Jones, Warren Wolf, Evan Perri, Aaron Diehl & DJF Artist-in-Residence Danilo Pérez
• Marcus Belgrave - Trumpet Call
• McCoy Tyner Trio with special guest Savion Glover
• Michael Weiss Quintet
• “MILES SMILES” featuring Wallace Roney, Larry Coryell, Rick Margitza, Ralphe Armstrong & Alphonse Mouzon
• Oakland University Jazz Band
• Quest Reunion featuring David Liebman, Richie Bierach, Ron McLure & Billy Hart
• Ravi Coltrane Quartet
• Robert Glasper Experiment
• Saxophone Summit featuring Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman & Ravi Coltrane
• Teddy Harris Jr. Tribute – The New Breed Be Bop Society
• Terell Stafford Quintet
• The Alan Broadbent Trio featuring Sheila Jordan plus Strings
• The Cookers: Billy Harper, Gary Bartz, David Weiss, Eddie Henderson, George Cables, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart
• The David Berger Jazz Orchestra featuring Cecile McLorin Salvant
• The Delfeayo Marsalis Octet presents “Sweet Thunder”
• The John Scofield Überjam Band featuring Andy Hess, Avi Bortnick & Tony Mason
• The Robert Hurst Group
• The Three Baris: A Tribute to Pepper Adams featuring Gary Smulyan, Howard Johnson & Frank
• Tony Monaco Trio featuring Fareed Haque
• Tribute to Brad Felt featuring Steve Wood, Gary Schunk, Pat Prouty, Bill Higgins, and Terry Kimura
• Tribute to Don Byas featuring James Carter
• Tribute to Stan Kenton featuring The Four Freshman & the Toledo Jazz Orchestra
• Trio Da Paz & Friends Play Jobim & Getz featuring Romero Lubambo, Duduka Da Fonseca, Nilson Matta, Harry Allen, Joe Locke, Maucha Adnet
• Tumbao Bravo
• Warren Wolf Quartet featuring Robert Hurst, Carl Allen, & Benny Green
• Yellowjackets

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Practical Info:

Photo slideshow credits:

• In order of appearance
  
  • Photo 1-2011 DJF Panoramic-Len Katz.jpg
    2011 Detroit Jazz Festival
    Courtesy: Detroit Jazz Festival, Photographer Len Katz
  • Photo 2-SingTruthDJF Opening Night.jpg
    2011 Detroit Jazz Festival Opening Night Performance — “Sing The Truth!” featuring (l-r) Lizz Wright, Angélique Kidjo and Dianne Reeves
    Courtesy: Detroit Jazz Festival, Photographer Jeff Forman
  • Photo 3-Joe Lovano.jpg
    2011 Detroit Jazz Festival – Joe Lovano
    Courtesy: Detroit Jazz Festival, Photographer Jeff Forman
  • Photo 4DJFO 111A.jpg
    2011 Detroit Jazz Festival — Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra with special guest Ernie Andrews
    Courtesy: Detroit Jazz Festival, Photographer Jeff Forman
  • Photo 5_Regina Carter.jpg
    2011 Detroit Jazz Festival — (l-r) Yacouba Sissoko and Regina Carter
    Courtesy: Detroit Jazz Festival, Photographer Jeff Forman

Venues:

• Hart Plaza
  1 Hart Plaza
  Detroit, Michigan
  http://www.hartplazadetroit.com/
• Campus Martius Park
  800 Woodward Avenue
  Detroit, Michigan
  http://www.campusmartiuspark.org/
• Cadillac Square
  111 Cadillac Square
  Detroit, Michigan

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