[Dixielandjazz] Newport Jazz Festival

Wed Mar 23 09:36:34 PDT 2011

Steve - their musical tastes will
change many times as you age."

That's really good advice.Steve  Although I haven't stayed very current and 
most of the gigs I play are for older people it's still very true.  I have 
reinvented myself over and over.  Who could have known about the internet or 
web pages or digital photography or computers that could perform like a 
person forty years ago.  Then how many musicians do you know that those 
things don't exist for even now?  Then think about how many who are in that 
last group that are working very often.
(yes I know that there are dinosaurs out there that still work)

If it weren't for the all the gadgets and innovations I wouldn't be working 
today.  Even though I don't really keep up with the new stuff I have 
innovated the old enough to keep me working and making more money per gig 
than I ever made as a sideman.  The best thing is that now I do one hour 
gigs during the week and make more than I did on Saturday night in three 
hours as a sideman.  Another perk is that I now get some weekends off.
Larry
St. Louis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen G Barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 10:16 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Newport Jazz Festival

Like many jazz and music festivals, Newport is moving towards youth,
but still presenting older acts, at least on the first night. Reminds
me of  the advice I got from a musical mentor 60 years ago. "Above
all, be flexible because the audience and their musical tastes will
change many times as you age."

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband

Newport Jazz Festival Embraces Fresh Talent

MARCH 22, 2011 - NY TIMES - BY LARRY RICHTER

There will be plenty of new blood and young performers on stage this
summer at the Newport Jazz Festival, whose 2011 schedule was announced
on Tuesday. The bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding, who last month
won the Grammy for best new artist, will perform on two of the
festival’s three days of shows, which begin on Friday, Aug. 5, in
Newport, R.I., where the festival was first held in 1954.
George Wein, who produced the first Newport festival and remains in
charge, said bookings of what he called “adventurous younger artists”
were part of an effort “to recognize that jazz is an ever-evolving art
form.”Besides Ms. Spalding, 26, the festival will feature the
saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, who has been voted “a rising star” by
Downbeat magazine in recent years, in a duo with the veteran horn
player Bunky Green. Also performing will be the trumpet player Ambrose
Akinmusire, 28, whose career got off to a flying start in 2007, when
he won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition.

The festival’s first night, however, will be devoted to established
talents from opposite ends of the jazz spectrum. The trumpet player
Wynton Marsalis, artistic director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center
program, is one of the genre’s best-known names and honors the music’s
roots in New Orleans dating back to Louis Armstrong. The pianist and
singer Michael Feinstein is a specialist in the Broadway-influenced
Great American Songbook.
Acknowledging the increasingly international reach of jazz, the
festival will also feature up-and-coming performers from around the
world. The pianist Hiromi Uehara, 31, is from Japan and has recently
drawn attention for collaborations with Chick Corea and other
prominent keyboard players. Avishai Cohen is an Israeli trumpet player
whose appearance will feature the saxophonist Joshua Redman as a
special guest, and Miguel Zenón often leads ensembles that offer jazz
versions of Puerto Rican folk music.
In addition, the veteran saxophonist Charles Lloyd, a supporter since
the 1960s of what has come to be called world music, will perform with
the Indian percussionist Zakir Hussain, and the pianist Randy Weston,
who around the same time began exploring the African origins of jazz,
will play with his African Rhythms Trio.
Festival tickets will go on sale Friday.
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