When: Friday, June 26th and Saturday, June 27th
Where: Onondaga Community College (OCC campus) 4585 West Seneca Turnpike, Onondaga Hill, Syracuse, NY, 13215
Admission: Free Admission. Open to the Public. Non ticketed. Optional (Limited) On-Campus Event Parking: Optional. On Campus event parking is limited to 2,000 vehicles per day. The optional event parking fee for on-campus parking is $5 per vehicle, per day. No exceptions. No re-entry. Once you're in, you're in. Once you're out, you're out. Handicap Seating: a special seating area located at house right, stage left, has been reserved for individuals with special needs. Seating: festival seating is non-reserved. 2009 festival seating policy is first come-first seated; Bring your own lawn chair. Please. Start Times: as an outdoor festival, we're weather dependent. And we're also not a concert, but rather a live festival with multiple stages and many groups performing. Sometimes weather and encores have us running behind, but we stay pretty close to the published schedule as much as possible. But there are no guarantees and everything is subject to change.
Friday, June 26th
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm The John Tropea Band John Tropea is one of the most admired and highly regarded guitar players of his generation. His playing shows a vast knowledge and respect for the tradition of the instrument as well as an original style that continues to define how the guitar best serves a wide variety of musical styles. He is a musician's musician who attracts the finest players for his own projects. 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Randy Brecker / Bill Evans Soulbop Band Two renowned musicians ~ both well respected jazz veterans and bandleaders in their own right ~ joined forces in 2002 to create the aptly-titled Soulbop Band. Co-led by Multiple Grammy-winning trumpeter Randy Brecker (Frank Zappa, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Blood Sweat & Tears, P-Funk, Brecker Brothers) and saxophonist Bill Evans (MIles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra), this superband can easily shift gears from swinging uptempo burners to slamming funk, from soulful r&b to soothing ballads and scintillating rock-tinged jams.
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm The West Coast / East Coast Dream Band David Garfield, Alex Ligertwood, Steve Ferrone, James Harrah, Larry Klimas, Lenny Castro, Randy Brecker, and Special Guest Will Lee The core trio of the LA-based David Garfield Band a k a Creatchy & The Cats (and formerly The West Coast - East Coast Dream Band which appeared at Jazz Fest 2008 and literally stole the show at last June's Syracuse festival) is keyboardist-arranger and musical director David Garfield, drummer Steve Ferrone and vocalist Alex Ligertwood. And when they hit the road on tour, they're accompanied by the best session and studio players on both coasts, including David Letterman show bassist Will Lee, multiple Grammy-winner Randy Brecker on trumpet, longtime Neil Diamond saxophonist Larry Klimas, and premiere session man and tour guitarist James Harrah (Madonna). 9:30 pm - 11:00 pm Spyro Gyra Since their origin in Buffalo in 1974, and the group's earliest recordings and gigs in the mid-1970s, Spyro Gyra has always been about looking ahead and not backward. The very title of their new release on Heads Up international, Down the Wire, suggests a relentless forward movement and an infectious enthusiasm, a snapshot of Spyro Gyra's enduring dedication to that walk down the wire. Saturday, June 27th5:00 pm - 6:00 pm AL CHEZ and THE BROTHERS OF FUNK BIG BAND ALAN was born in Jersey city , New Jersey in 1961. His father a country and western singer and his mother always had a love for music. When Alan was three his parents took him and his two older brothers Michael and Peter to a drum and bugle corps contest in Jersey city. Alan loved it. When the family moved to Edison N.J. his father help start up a local drum corps called THE SAINTS. 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm The Steelheads With Special Guest Andy Narell With Special Guest Andy Narell The Steelheads are a percussion ensemble and steel band composed of students from Mott Middle College High School, Mott Community College and the University of Michigan-Flint.
Andy Narell took the steelpan out of the steelband and brought it into the jazz band, and with every album and concert since, he has explored the possibilities and expanded the role of the pan in contemporary music. 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm The David Garfield Band The core trio of the LA-based David Garfield Band a k a Creatchy & The Cats (and formerly The West Coast - East Coast Dream Band which appeared at Jazz Fest 2008 and literally stole the show at last June's Syracuse festival) is keyboardist-arranger and musical director David Garfield, drummer Steve Ferrone and vocalist Alex Ligertwood. And when they hit the road on tour, they're accompanied by the best session and studio players on both coasts, including David Letterman show bassist Will Lee, multiple Grammy-winner Randy Brecker on trumpet, longtime Neil Diamond saxophonist Larry Klimas, and premiere session man and tour guitarist James Harrah (Madonna).
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Kenny G Kenny G was recently named the 25th-highest selling artist of all time in America by the RIAA, with 48 million albums sold in the USA as of 2006, and still counting. In 1994, Kenny G won his first Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition for Forever in Love and has been topping the Jazz and Pop Instrumental charts ever since. 2009 Festival Dedication: Jazz Guitar Hero Hiram BullockThis year's 27th Annual Syracuse Jazz Fest is respectfully dedicated to the loving memory of a dear friend ~ a master showman, studio wizard, side man supreme, super session man, and front man extraordinaire ~ the late and forever great Hiram Bullock.
All Syracuse Jazz Fest Dedications:
Hiram Bullock (2009), Joe Zawinul & Michael Brecker (2008), Dave Brubeck, John Francis 'Jaco' Pastorius (2007), The Musicians & City of New Orleans (2006) • WAER-FM, Carol Jacobe (2005) • Michael "Peanuts" Hucko, Leo Rayhill (2004) • Debbie Sydow, Nicholas Pirro (2003) • Etta Jones (2002) • Louis Armstrong (2001) • Grover Washington, Jr.(2000) • 'Shay' Steinman (1997) • Larry Arlotta (1996) • John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie (1995) • Brian Bourke (1994) • Ray 'Raybo' Boyce (1993) • Miles Davis (1992) • Sal Nistico (1991) • "Big" George Plavocos (1986) • Carl Mano (1985)
*** Site Under Construction (YourCNY.com's official launch is coming soon!) ***
2009 Syracuse Jazz Fest
Get the full scoop on the 2009 Syracuse Jazz Fest. Venue, bands, daily schedule, and more.
|
Sponsored Results
Get discount coupons and special offers delivered FREE !
