Mt Dora Blues & Wine Fest This Weekend Under Perfect Florida Skies

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The 2010 Mount Dora Blues and Wine Festival started yesterday at 5:00 p.m., and runs through Sunday at the historic Lakeside Inn. The event will consist of three days filled with wine and song on the shores of Lake Dora. Top entertainers will take the stage to sing out the blues and throughout the festival there will be wine tasting events to sample some fine vintages featured by the wine shops in downtown Mount Dora. Tickets can be purchased for individual days or for the entire three-day event at a discount.

Saturday, the entertainment taking the stage and other events for the day include:

3 – 5 p.m. – Sebastiani Vineyards, Maggie’s Attic, the Wine Den and others will be hosting the “free” wine tasting event to sample some smooth top vintages.
3 p.m. – Shaun Rounds Band
4:30 p.m. – T Scott Troprockers Blues Band
5:30 p.m. – Awards for the “Best of Blues Wine” will be presented by celebrity judges
6 p.m. – Apple Mary’s Blues
7:30 p.m. – Miss Jacqueline Jones (Queenie and the Blue Krewes)
Sunday entertainment line-up includes:

12 noon – Selwyn Birchwood & Duces Wild with RJ Harmon on the Harmonica
1 p.m. – Beautiful Bobby Blackmon
2:30 p.m. – Rent Money Blues Band Jam
Ticket prices are $12 on Friday, $36 for Saturday and $12 on Sunday. Save $12 when you purchase a 3-day event ticket for $48 per person.

FLORIDA'S UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI STUDENTS WIN DOWNBEAT STUDENT JAZZ MUSIC AWARDS

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Coral Gables, FL (May 17, 2010) – University of Miami Frost School of Music ensembles and individual students won 12 awards in the 33rd Annual DownBeat magazine Student Music Awards, a record number for the Department of Studio Music and Jazz. National winners were announced in the June issue, which is currently on newsstands. A wide range of categories are represented, demonstrating the breadth of the jazz program at the Frost School of Music.

The Frost Concert Jazz Band directed by Dante Luciani was the DownBeat Graduate College Winner in the prestigious Large Jazz Ensemble category; the Frost Salsa Orchestra directed by Alberto De La Reguera was a repeat DownBeat Graduate College Winner in the Latin Group category. The Frost Funk/Fusion Ensemble directed by Stephen Rucker was the DownBeat Graduate College Winner in the Blues/Pop/Rock Group category and the Frost Studio Jazz Band directed by Stephen Guerra received the DownBeat Graduate College Outstanding Performance award.

Five Frost School of Music students received individual DownBeat Student Music Awards in eight other categories. Timothy Buchholtz (Miami, FL), voice, was the DownBeat Graduate College Winner in the Jazz Arrangement category for his arrangement of “Senor Blues.” Buchholtz also received the DownBeat Graduate College Outstanding Performance award in the Vocal Jazz Soloist category. Troy Roberts (Perth, Australia), tenor saxophone, received the Downbeat Graduate College Outstanding Performance award in the Instrumental Jazz Soloist category. In the Original Song category, Steve Brickman (Andover, MA) received the Downbeat Undergraduate College Outstanding Performance award for his composition “Mystical Substance.” Also in the Original Song category, Luke Moellman (Saratoga Springs, NY) received the Downbeat Graduate College Outstanding Performance award for his composition “Misguided Melancholia.” Bridget Davis (Chagrin Falls, OH) and Luke Moellman’s ensemble “bridget & luke” received the Downbeat Graduate College Outstanding Performance award in the Blues/Pop/Rock category (Gary Lindsay, director). Luke Moellman also received two additional individual awards: the Downbeat Graduate College Winner award for Engineered Live Recording and the Downbeat Graduate College Winner award for Engineered Studio Recording.

The DownBeat Student Music Awards is an esteemed competition for middle school, high school and college students to showcase their talent and be recognized for their musical skills. Students record their music on a CD and submit it for judging by professional musicians and educators from across the country. Judging criteria is based on musicianship, creativity, improvisation, technique, sound quality and balance, excitement and authority. Awards are given in 15 categories in five different divisions.

Florida's Own Smokestack Lightnin’s Top Ten Blues CDs for the Week & Playlist

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PLAYLIST: Smokestack Lightnin’ on WUCF, 89.9FM, , 05/15/10, 8-11pm
Opening: Smokestack Lightnin’ By The Howlin’ Wolf
DJ: Tommy Thompson
Show #0846(SMOKE_051510)
www.smokestacklightnin.com (archieved programs - you can listen anytime!)
Artist/song/cd/label

Smokestack Lightnin’s Top Ten Blues CDs for the Week
#10 Lucky Peterson/Out Of The Frying Pan/Heart Of Pain/JSP
#9 Pat Travers/Sittin’ On Top Of The World/Covering Clapton: From Cream and Beyond/BBI
#8 Michael Landau & Robben Ford/The Darkness/Renegade Creation/BBI
#7 Guitar Shorty/The Sting/Bare Knuckle/Alligator
#6 Mark Hummel/My Baby’s So Sweet/Retro-Active/Electro Fi
#5 Seasick Steve/Seasick Boogie/Man From Another Time/Atlantic
#4 Nasty Ned/Nothin’ Else Can Taste That Way/Roots 52
#3 Kirk Fletcher/Ain’t No Way /My Turn/Eclecto Groove
#2 Mannish Boys/Those Worries/Shake For Me/Delta Groove
#1 Janiva Magness/Walking In The Sun/The Devil Is An Angel Too/Alligator

Mojo Buford/Mo’s Stroll/State of The Blues/JSP 1989

Hour 1 Bonus

The Bluesmasters & Mickey Thomas/Third Degree/The Bluesmasters featuring Mickey Thomas//Direct Music

The Black Keys
The Black Keys/I Got Mine/Attack & Release/Nonesuch
The Black Keys/Black Door/Magic Potion/Nonesuch
The Black Keys/I’ll Be Your Man/The Big Come Up/Alive
The Black Keys/Grown So Ugly/Rubber Factory/Fat Possum

All New Blues This Week
Tad Robinson/Rained All Night/Back In Style/Severn
Karen Lovely/Still The Rain/Still The Rain/Pretty Pair
Teresa James/A Good Day To Cry/You Know You Love It/Jesi Lu
Cyril Neville & Alan Toussaint/Fortune Teller/The Essential Cyril Neville 1994-2007/MC

New Blues Favorite Tracks
Solomon Burke/It Must Be Love/Nothing’s Impossible/E1 Entertainment
Jason Elmore & The Hoo Doo Witch/All It Does Is Rain/Upside Your Head/Underworld
Back Alley Players/You Make me Crazy/Beyond The Blues/BAP

Kid Ramos/Marion’s Mood/Greasy Kid Stuff/Evidence 2001

Blues By Request
Clarence Gatemouth Brown/There You Are/Man/Verve 1994
Mickey Newbury/House Of Blues/Blue To This Day/Mountain Retreat
James Nick Nixon/No End To The Blues/No End To The Blues/Black Magic
Jubal Kane/Take me To The River/Flying High/self

More All New Blues This Week
Otis Taylor & Moore/Lee & Arnez/Clovis People Vol. 3/Telarc
Rev Peyton’s Big Damn Band/Born Bred Corn Fed/The Wages/Side One Dummy
Peter Parcek/The Mathematics of Love/The Mathematics of Love/Redstar
Phil Gates/Addicted To The Blues/Addicted To The Blues/self

New Blues Last Call
Barry Goldberg’s Soul Riot/Like A River/Barry Goldberg’s Soul Riot/Meroke Sky
Colin Linden/Trouble Only Comes In Threes/From The Water/True North
Sean Murphy/It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry/Living The Blues/Vision Wall

CLOSE
Wes Jeans/Boomerang/Live At Music City Texas/self

Hank Jones, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Dies at 91

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Hank Jones, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Dies at 91
By PETER KEEP
NEWS
Published: May 17, 2010
www.nytimes.com

"Hank Jones, whose self-effacing nature belied his stature as one of the most respected jazz pianists of the postwar era, died Sunday at a hospice in Manhattan. He was 91.

Wendy Oxenhorn, executive director of the Jazz Foundation of America, confirmed Mr. Jones’s death.

Mr. Jones spent much of his career in the background. For three and a half decades he was primarily a sideman, most notably with Ella Fitzgerald; for much of that time he also worked as a studio musician on radio and television.

His fellow musicians admired his imagination, his versatility and his distinctive style, which blended the urbanity and rhythmic drive of the Harlem stride pianists, the dexterity of Art Tatum and the harmonic daring of bebop. (The pianist, composer and conductor André Previn once called Mr. Jones his favorite pianist, “regardless of idiom.”)

But unlike his younger brothers Thad, who played trumpet with Count Basie and was later a co-leader of a celebrated big band, and Elvin, an influential drummer who formed a successful combo after six years with John Coltrane’s innovative quartet, Mr. Jones seemed content to keep a low profile. "

Please follow this link to the complete article in The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/arts/music/18jones.html

Also, there is a very well done recent podcast interview with Mr. Jones on NEA's site at:
http://www.arts.gov/av/avCMS/podcasts.html
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Guanabanas - Blues is in the mix

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MUSIC & GUANABANAS
A taste of something different in
Jupiter Florida.

Eclectic music and electric people in an exotic space.
Big Vince & The Phat Cats3-5pm Happy Hour - No Cover
Saturday, May 15, 2010

The Nouveaux Honkies9 – 11 pm - No Cover
Saturday, May 22, 2010

JP Soars & The Red Hots
9 – 11 pm - No Cover
Saturday, June 12, 2010

Guanabanas997 N Highway A1A
Jupiter, FL 33477
(561) 747-8878
guanabanas.com

Directions
Exit Indiantown Road which is Exit #87 off of I-95 or the only Jupiter exit off Florida’s Turnpike. Take Indiantown Road East over the Intracoastal Bridge and USI all the way to AIA. Turn left on AIA and proceed North 8/10 of a mile. Turn left into Guanabanas for valet parking or proceed one more block North and turn right to park in the Guanabanas public parking lot.

Dinner Hours
5:00pm-10:00pm, Friday & Saturday until 11pm

UPCOMING SHOWS
5/14 Spred the Dub & Tornado Rider (show at 8pm)
5/15 Big Vince and the Phat Cats & Herbal Krew (CD Release party)
5/19 Rebel Alliance
5/21 Jacob Jeffries Band
5/22 Nouveaux Honkies & Jeff Harding Duo
5/26 Sovereign Vine
5/28 Moska Project
5/29 The Spam Allstars
6/04 Big Vince and the Phat Cats
6/05 Ovni Sound System & Caribbean Club (Happy Hour)
6/06 The B Foundation
6/11 No Ka Oi
6/12 JP Soars & Doug MaCrae Acoustic (Happy Hour)
6/16 B-Liminal & Ballyhoo!
6/18 Almost Joon
6/19 Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band
6/25 Scholars Word
6/26 Soul Taxi

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Sam Rivers, Florida's avant-garde jazz master to present at TriBeCa PAC in NYC

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Sam Rivers, the Florida octogenarian saxophonist, flutist and pianist who is rightly revered within avant-garde jazz circles, will play with his band on Thursday, May 14, 2010 at the TriBeCa Performing Arts Center's Lost Jazz Shrines series. He’ll be recalling the heyday of Studio Rivbea — the downtown loft that he ran in the 1970s — both musically (at 8:30 p.m.) and literally (in a free preshow talk, at 7).

TriBeCa Performing Arts Center

Borough of Manhattan Community College

199 Chambers Street

New York, NY 10007

(212) 220-1460

tribecapac.org

$25, students $15

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Lou Abbott, Florida jazz & blues percussionist, to participate in Blaine, WA Jazz Festival

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Jazz festival funding, enrollment starts now
Published on Thu, May 13, 2010 by By Tara Nelson
http://www.thenorthernlight.com/

Those wanting to get involved in this year’s annual Blaine Jazz Festival will want to do so now, either by donating or by signing up.

The event is scheduled from July 11 to 17 and is open to high school students of all ages.

Larry and Suzanne Conrad, of the Pacific Arts Association (PAA), which organizes the event, said donations are still needed to make this year’s event successful.

Last year, the PAA spent nearly $92,000 to pay professional musicians from around the country to tutor and perform with local students and offer scholarships to students who may not otherwise be able to afford the cost. A third of that funding came from Blaine’s Tourism Advisory Committee (BTAC) but the remaining $60,000 was raised through donations.

“This year, the fundraising is especially important because some students, if they can’t get at least a partial scholarship, they won’t be able to attend,” Suzanne said. “We’re hoping to get 100 students this year and many of them will need financial help.”

She added that no other city-sponsored program has the kind of return on their investment as the jazz festival. Last year, for example, 96 students attended the camp and that many of the students’ parents stayed overnight in Blaine and ate meals in local restaurants, she said.

This year’s line-up includes New York Philharmonic bassoonist Martin Kuuskmann, of Blaine; percussionist Lou Abbott, of Florida; trombonist Bob Gray, of Blaine; pianist Jon Mutchler, of Blaine; and internationally recognized composer Greg Hopkins, of Massachusetts.

Tuition per student is $300 and registration runs through June. Payment in full is due at the time of registration.  Housing and meal fees for the full week are $350 for out-of-town students. Optional private music or vocal lessons are also available for an additional $25 per half-hour.

For more information visit www.pacificartsassoc.org or www.blainejazzfestival.org.

Evening concert series concludes 2009/2010 season with South Florida Jazz great Joe Donato

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Moonlight Concert @ The Kampong
Evening concert series concludes 2009/2010 season with South Florida Jazz great Joe Donato

Coconut Grove, FL – The Kampong, the Miami location for the National Tropical Botanical Garden, concludes its first successful season of Moonlight concerts next month with South Florida jazz legend Joe Donato. The last of four highly acclaimed concerts will be held on Saturday, May 15th.; gates open at 8 p.m., and the music begins at 9 p.m. Joe Donato’s unique style and flair with the saxophone and multiple other instruments make him an immensely versatile performer who lights up the stage of any venue with the class and style reminiscent of Big Band days. His long career has taken him around the world on numerous tours and he is practically an institution on the South Florida musical scene. Everyone agrees that he is more than just a talented musician; he is what is referred to as a musician’s musician – widely respected and admired by his peers and generous in sharing the spotlight with his talented ensemble and special guests.

Billing itself as Miami’s newest upscale venue for fine jazz and live music, The Kampong transforms itself into the tropical ultra-chic K Lounge for the evening. The recently added covered pavilion with stage, designed by noted Miami architect Max Strang, provides near-perfect acoustics and is the ideal small setting for the live-music aficionado. “Sitting in the K Lounge, surrounded by lush, fragrant gardens and listening to crickets chirping to the tempo of the amazing music is a sublime experience,” said Vivianne Swietelsky, Kampong Fellow and Chair of the Moonlight Concert committee. “We envisioned creating a special venue, where locals and visitors to Miami could enjoy top-quality live performances in an exquisite ambiance while becoming more acquainted with the beauty of The Kampong and all that it has to offer. I believe that we have succeeded”, she added.

The Moonlight Concert @ The Kampong series at the K Lounge has been warmly welcomed as a noteworthy addition to Miami’s musical scene, both by audiences and by the excellent musicians who have loved performing there to eclectic, appreciative audiences. “The Kampong's ‘K Lounge’ is one of the most enjoyable listening experiences in Miami,” said renowned jazz pianist Shelly Berg, Dean of the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. “When you combine the incomparable atmosphere of the Kampong, the music of great artists, the wonderful acoustics of the venue, and the intimacy of the experience, it adds up to a very special evening”, he added. Dean Berg, who, along with acclaimed vocalist Carmen Bradford, was featured at the memorable opening night concert last November said that he looks forward to returning to the K Lounge with Ms. Bradford during the 2010/2011 season.

In addition to series sponsor Steinway and Sons of Coral Gables, The Kampong is pleased to announce its newest partner, GREY GOOSE Vodka. Three seating categories are available, and all ticket prices include cocktails courtesy of GREY GOOSE Vodka. Guests seated in the prime K Lounge seating area will be treated to a very special GREY GOOSE tableside “mixology” experience featuring custom-made artisanal cocktails.

“We’ve enjoyed bringing a new and diverse audience to The Kampong, sharing great music in a great setting, and establishing new relationships brought about by the Moonlight concert series,” said Ann Parsons, Director of The Kampong. “We are grateful to our sponsors, Steinway and Sons and GREY GOOSE Vodka, as well as to the many wonderful community volunteers for their help in making this series possible,” Ms. Parsons, added.

Proceeds from Moonlight Concerts @ The Kampong are used to support The Kampong living collections and educational programs.

Tickets are available by calling The Kampong at 305.442.7169 or online at http://kampongevents.ntbg.org/

"The Kampong's 'K Lounge' is one of the most enjoyable listening experiences in Miami. When you combine the incomparable atmosphere of the Kampong, the music of great artists, the wonderful acoustics of the venue, and the intimacy of the experience, it adds up to a very special evening."

- Jazz pianist Shelly Berg, Dean of the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami

The Kampong, located on Biscayne Bay in the heart of Coconut Grove, is one of five tropical gardens and three preserves of the National Tropical Botanical Garden. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The mission of the National Tropical Botanical Garden is to enrich life through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education by perpetuating the survival of plants, ecosystems, and cultural knowledge of tropical regions. NTBG is a not-for-profit institution.

New Florida Music - Federico Britos' VOYAGE

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Federico Britos
VOYAGE

Audio CD (April 27, 2010)
Original Release Date: 2010
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Sunny Side Records
ASIN: B003B2B5J4

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR MORE INFO:

JazzBluesFlorida.com NEW FLORIDA MUSIC PAGE
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Central Florida's Spring Blues Escape - Blues & Wine in Mt. Dora May 21-23, 2010

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Gearing up for the Mount Dora Blues & Wine Festival
— May 21st, 22nd, 23rd —

The 2nd Annual Blues and Wine Festival is just around the corner — Friday, May 21st, Saturday, May 22nd and Sunday, May 23rd at the historic Lakeside Inn downtown Mount Dora. Ticket sales have been very good and we are expecting a record crowd!

The Festival has added a Blues Brothers Contest for Friday night — bring your costume & “air guitar” and be ready to hit the stage! T Scott Walker and the Nightly Blues Band will play Friday night and back up the contest entrants.

The 3-day music line-up includes headliners Beautiful Bobby Blackmon and Miss Jacqueline Jones, along with Shaun Rounds, Apple Mary’s Blues, Selwyn Birchwood & Deuces Wild with guest R. J. Harmon, T Scott TropRockers Blues Band, Rent Money Blues Band (will be doing a jam on Sunday). Bring your lawn chairs and blankets, sit back and relax — rain or shine!

The Lakeside Inn Tea Garden is the place to be for the wine tasting on Saturday from 3 - 5 pm — included in your ticket price. Sample premiere wines from national vineyards and local wine sellers.

Three-Day Event Tickets $48 in advance! Ticket prices at the door — Friday night Welcome Party and Blues Brothers Contest tickets are $8 (5-8pm); Saturday $36 (3-9 pm); and Sunday $12 (noon-3pm).

Tickets and details available on-line at http://www.mountdorabluesandwinefest.com/. Two
night lodging packages available at the Lakeside Inn — call 800.972.7175 or visit www.lakeside-inn.com. For more information on tickets, musicians and sponsorships call T Scott Walker Productions at 352-728-5250.




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