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Receive Rochester Jazz News via email THANK YOU ROCHESTER MUSIC LOVERS!!!! THANK YOU JAZZFEST SPONSORS!!! WE LOVE YOU!!! MARK YOUR CALENDARS, OUR 8TH EDITION TAKES PLACE JUNE 12-20, 2009 MARC & JOHN PRODUCERS, RIJF RIJF 2008 Festival Photos Saturday Night Fish Fry view more photos... June 24, 2008 Festival’s Instrument Collection, Kids Jam Session, and Jazz Scholarships Reach out to Next Generation of Musicians Three special activities held during this year's Rochester International Jazz Festival, were aimed at reaching the next generation of musicians. The first ever Kids Jam Session, Musical Instrument Collection for City School students and the Annual Scholars [...more] June 24, 2008 Six Concerts from 2007 Rochester International Jazz Festival to Air This Summer on PBS Stations Nationwide See and hear more exciting scenes and sounds from the Rochester International Jazz Festival on PBS stations around the nation. WXXI Public Broadcasting (wxxi.org) in Rochester, NY will present season two of the Festival capturing the essence of the 200 [...more]
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Soulive It was spring of 1999, Drummer Alan Evans and his organist brother Neal invited guitarist Eric Krasno to come up to their house in Woodstock, NY, to cut some tracks in their home studio. They had a simple idea - bring jazz back to the dance floor. In the years since, their blend of soul, jazz and hip-hop has done exactly that, attracting throngs of fans around the world and the respect of musicians from every genre. They called their idea Soulive. Right away it was clear that there was somet [...more]
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