Chicago Jazz Fest 2010 Events Calendar/Schedule

Chicago Jazz Fest 2010 music-artists events calendar and schedule has just been announced by The Jazz Institute of Chicago...this is the 32nd annual jazz fest for ChiTown which is so generously sponsored by healthcare services and products company CareFusion (Thank You!)...check out the events below...for further info go to JIC's site here:

***Thursday, September 2***
Millennium Park - Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Jazz Presenters / Partnership
12:00 - 12:50 Umbrella Music: Bridging Improvised Music and Dance
1:05 - 1:55 Jodie Christian Quintet
2:10 - 3:00 The MIYUMI Project Big Band: "Trans-Rooted" featuring JASC Tsukasa Taiko
3:15 - 4:00 Jim Wagner's All Stars featuring Willie Pickens, Ari Brown, Jimmy Ellis, Robert Shy, Frank Russell, Corey Wilkes and Maggie Brown

***Friday, September 3***
Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph
Randolph Café
12:00 - 1:00 Hector Silveira Septet
1:30 - 2:30 The Grilly Brothers Sextet
Claudia Cassidy Theater
12:15 - 1:15 James Dapogny: "Art of the Solo"
1:45 - 2:45 AACM Experimental Ensemble
Preston Bradley Hall
12:30 - 1:30 Tomeka Reid's Hear In Now Trio
2:00 - 3:00 Jim Cooper's Mallet Madness featuring Kathy Kelly and Carl Leukaufe
Millennium Park - Jay Pritzker Pavilion
4:00 - 4:50 Lincoln Park High School Jazz Ensemble and
Noteworthy: CPS Jazz Band Teachers
5:00 - 5:50 James Dapogny
6:00 - 6:55 Mike LeDonne Trio with special guest Eric Alexander
7:10 - 8:10 Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Orchestra
8:30 - 9:30 Ramsey Lewis 75th Birthday Celebration

***Saturday, September 4***
Grant Park
Jazz on Jackson Stage
12:00 - 12:55 Douglas Ewart Nyahbingi Drum Choir
1:10 - 2:05 Paul Giallorenzo's GitGo
2:20 - 3:15 Maggie Brown: "A Tribute to Abbey Lincoln"
3:30 - 4:30 Dana Hall Quintet with special gust Nicholas Payton
Presented by Close Up 2 and 87.7FM…
6:00 - 7:30 Corey Wilkes
8:00 - 9:00 Steve Cole
Chicago Community Trust Young Jazz Lions Stage
12:00 - 12:30 Chi-Arts Jazz Combo
12:45 - 1:15 Jazz Ambassadors Combo
1:30 - 2:10 Kenwood Academy Jazz Ensemble
2:25 - 3:05 Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School Jazz Ensemble
3:20 - 3:50 Lincoln Park High School Jazz Ensemble
4:05 - 4:50 Roosevelt University Jazz Ensemble
Jazz and Heritage Stage
12:30 - 1:30 West End Jazz Band
2:00 - 3:00 Cameron Pfiffner's Marco Polo
3:30 - 4:30 Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections
Petrillo Music Shell
5:00 - 5:50 Chuchito Valdez Afro-Cuban Ensemble
6:00 - 6:55 Rene Marie "High Maintenance" Quartet
7:10 - 8:10 Charisma: "A Lee Morgan Tribute"
8:30 - 9:30 The Either/Orchestra with special guests Getachew Mekurya and Teshome Mitiku

***Sunday, September 5***
Grant Park
Jazz on Jackson Stage
12:00 - 12:55 Paulinho Garcia Quintet
1:10 - 2:05 Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble
2:20 - 3:15 Brad Goode Quartet
3:30 - 4:30 Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band
Presented by Close Up 2 and 87.7 FM...
6:00 - 7:30 Harlan Jefferson
8:00 - 9:00 Norman Brown
Chicago Community Trust Young Jazz Lions Stage
12:00 - 12:30 Northside College Prep Jazz Combo
12:45 - 1:15 Whitney Young Magnet High School Jazz Combo
1:30 - 2:10 Lakeview High School Jazz Ensemble
2:25 - 3:05 John Hersey High School Jazz Ensemble
3:30 - 4:05 University of Chicago Jazz X-Tet
Jazz and Heritage Stage
12:30 - 1:30 Bethany Pickens Trio
2:00 - 3:00 NOMO
3:30 - 4:30 Saalik Ziyad's 5 After 7 Project
Petrillo Music Shell
5:00 - 6:00 Brad Mehldau Trio
6:15 - 7:05 Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls
7:20 - 8:15 Henry Threadgill's Zooid
8:30 - 9:30 Kurt Elling Quintet with special guest Ernie Watts

Here is one of JAZZzology's favorite Chicago jazz pianists Ben Paterson performing at the Chicago Jazz Fest in 2009:

(source: jazzinchicago.org, carefusion.com, explorechicago.org)

George Wein's Jazz Festivals Survive 2009 Economy

Jazz fests started by George Wein continue to survive in the onslaught of economic woes here in the U.S...his jazz festivals get a last minute and much needed infusion of cash from CareFusion, a medical products business...thank you CareFusion!

"At 83, George Wein hoped the future of his Newport folk and jazz festivals would have been set. But the founder of the annual Newport events and the New York jazz festival has been working harder than ever to keep the events alive. Yesterday at a New York press conference, Wein announced that he’d received a lifeline from CareFusion, a planned spinoff of Cardinal Health’s clinical and medical products businesses. The company outlined an expansive sponsorship deal for what will be called the CareFusion Jazz Festival Series; the kickoff event will be George Wein’s CareFusion Jazz Festival 55 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport.

The company will also help Wein revive the New York jazz festival next June, and it will sponsor jazz fests in Chicago, Monterey, Calif., Paris and Australia. 'This is a great boost for jazz,' Wein told the Herald by phone before the press conference. 'JazzTimes magazine is going under. No one can find sponsors for festivals. The arts are in trouble. And then CareFusion walked in the door. It’s more than a light at the end of the tunnel. We are out of the tunnel.'

The CareFusion Jazz Festival Series will open in Newport, R.I. The kickoff event will be George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55, the oldest of the festivals and the one that has set the tradition for jazz festivals as they are known today. The full schedule includes:

George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55 (Newport, R.I.), Aug. 7 - 9, 2009

Chicago Jazz Festival presented by CareFusion, Sept. 4 - 6, 2009

CareFusion Presents Dizzy's Den at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Sept. 18 - 20, 2009

CareFusion Manly Jazz Festival (Australia), Oct. 3 - 5, 2009

CareFusion Jazz Festival Paris, Oct. 16 - 24, 2009

CareFusion New York Jazz Festival, June 2010 (exact dates to be determined)

Info Sources:

http://www.carefusionjazz.com/

http://sev.prnewswire.com/health-care-hospitals/20090707/LA4286107072009-1.html

http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/general/view/20090708weins_jazz_festivals get infusion of_cash/srvc= home&position=also "
This article source:
Kristin Samete

Major Marketing / Global Internet Music & Arts Marketing
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About George Wein
Jazz Impresario and NEA Jazz Master George Wein is considered to be as much a legend as his festivals. Through his company, Festival Productions, he has spearheaded hundreds of music events annually since 1954 when he produced the first Newport Jazz Festival – an event that started the "festival era," according to jazz critic Leonard Feather. At 83, Wein has as much creative fuel as he did when he started that festival and advanced the concept of live music. He pioneered the concept of sponsor association with music events and continues that tradition with CareFusion. Honors and awards have been bestowed upon him by AARP, Studio Museum of Harlem, Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, the Government of France and other organizations around the world. Wein’s autobiography, Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, which chronicles his life in jazz, was recognized by the Jazz Journalists Association as 2004’s best book about jazz. He has also been named 2009’s Events Producer of the Year. In addition to his life in jazz, Wein has a long history of involvement with philanthropy and the arts.