Live music will “Jazz” Toledo from 2:30 to
a 11:30 PM Jam Session on Saturday, June 16. The two day
Art Tatum Jazz Festival is filled with a star - studded
line up of National award winning musical artists and
home town favorites and legends.
This year a favorite of New Orleans —
21 year old Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews
and his band, Orleans Avenue will close Saturday evening
with what Rolling Stone calls “brass band fury”.
Earlier At 7 PM “Trombone Shorty” and his
band will do a swinging jazz set. You may remember him
from NBC’s Studio 60 at Christmas time. His trumpet
solo of “Oh Holy Night” has become legend.”
Steeped in New Orleans jazz —he has been performing
since he was 3 and led his own band at 6. In 2005 Andrews
added another dimension by joining Lenny Kravitz for his
world tour.
For the fourth year the title sponsor of
the Festival is the DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund.
“Sponsoring the festival gives Chrysler Group the
opportunity to be a part of the city’s vision and
give back to a community that is very valuable to us”
said Frank Fountain, Chrysler Group Senior Vice President
of External Affairs and President of the DaimlerChrysler
Corporation Fund.
The line up includes: Roberta Flack, Boney
James, Clark Terry and The Toledo Jazz Orchestra, Hendricks,
Lambert & Ross Redux with Jon Hendricks featuring
Aria Hendricks and Kevin Burke, Jon Cleary and the Absolute
Monster Gentlemen and Lizz Wright.
Roberta Flack is known for combining jazz,
soul and pop and has recorded 19 albums. Clint Eastwood
used her sound track of “The First Time Ever I Saw
Your Face” in “Play Misty For Me”. Eastwood’s
vision played out as Roberta won a Grammy for record of
the year for “First Time Ever”. She has continued
to collect awards while touring , recording, and delighting
her world wide audience.Roberta Flack performs at 8:30
on Sunday
“ Jon Cleary is the ninth wonder
of the world” says, Bonnie Rait. He plays keyboard
and is her musical director on tour. At the April 2007
New Orleans Jazz Festival, David Fricke of Rolling Stone
wrote “In New Orleans, the funk always comes hard
and heavy. But at the 2007 edition of the city’s
Jazz and Heritage Festival, local soul men hit the classic-rock
and heavy-metal songbooks with a vengeance. Singer-pianist
Jon
Cleary, a British native, long time resident in the Crescent
City, salted, his mix of Meters and Professor Longhair
covers with vintage U.K. blues rock; Free’s “All
Right Now,” rearranged as if Allen Toussaint had
written it for Lee Dorsey.” Jon Cleary performs
at 8:15 on Saturday
Boney James is smooth jazz personified.
He plays them all — tenor, soprano and alto saxes,
keyboard and a flute too. His combination of R&B with
the pop side of jazz makes his high engery live concerts
crowd pleasers. Boney performs at 10:00 on Saturday.
Lizz Wright an ascending star performed
on the recent PBS salute to Ella Fitzgerald. Next week
she will be at Carneige Hall as part of the JVC New York
Jazz Festival. Lizz is know for mesmerizing her audience.
Lizz Wright performs at 6 PM Saturday.,
Lori Le Fevre-Johnson is a favorite songbird
of Toledo. Lori performs at 3 PM Saturday.
Lambert,Hendricks & Ross Redux, with
Jon Hendricks, Aria Hendricks and Kevin Burke will celebrate
Father’s day honoring the Father of Vocalese —
Jon Hendricks. With Aria his youngest daughter and her
child hood friend Kevin Burke they will bring the “authentic”
vocalese to life. Jon has amassed awards and honors around
the globe. An Ohio native he is a resident of Toledo and
teaches at the University as does his
daughter Aria. Their energy will will burn up the stage.
L H & R Redux performs at 6 PM Sunday.
Clark Terry was seen this Spring in a PBS
special, “Live From the White House.” Clark
a jazz legend known for his prowess on the trumpet and
his “mumbles” scat. Clark Terry and The Toledo
Jazz Festival perform at 7:15 Sunday.
Rance Allen Group will bring the celebration of song to
the Festival. Sunday at 3 PM.
The Murphy’s local legends: jazz
bassist, Clifford Murphy, owner of Murphy’’s
Jazz Club. Claude Black Jazz pianist and Sean Dobbins
drummer will bring jazz, true jazz to the Festival. Sunday
at 5 PM.
Buy Tickets Online
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$45.00 for the weekend Buy
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Or at the Festival Gate
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