BeiJing Jazz Festival

07 Beijing jazzfestival PHOTO

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Ticket

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07 Beijing jazz festival booking guide:

Single-day fare: 50 yuan

Package fares: 120 yuan / 3 (9.21-23)

Ticket locations: Beijing Haidian Park Office for the Eastern Gate ticket (with model rocket markers)

Ticketing Advisory:010-62858616 62859013

07 Beijing jazz festival does not provide students, with discounts, and advance booking market votes;
While we are here to remind our friends do not buy ticket outside the park -ticket-sell-hall,to make sure your ticket is true.

Beijing Jazz Festival is coming!

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Time: 2007 September 21st-23rd
Address: Beijing Haidian Park
Web: www.beijingjazz.cn
Tel: 010 62590101 62590007

Beijing Jazz Festival will take place this year from September 21st to the 23rd in Haidian Park. This will be the 8th successful time that festival has taken place. The Festival, which is a cooperative effort of the Beijing Midi School of Music and Beijing Midi Productions, is proud to present 14 Chinese and 16 international acts performing over 3 days of outdoor performance.

This year the festival will be composed of two different stages, the White stage and the Blue stage. Bluge stage performances will feature the festivals more traditional performers playing a wide range of styles such as, Standard jazz, Swing, Cool jazz and Be-bop. The White stage will be dedicated to more modern styles of Jazz and World Music, such as Fusion, Latin, Flamenco, Rhythm & Blues and Funk. In addition to music, the White stage will also have all area for dancing!

Sponsor: Beijing Midi School of Music
Partners: Beijing Midi Productions
Co-sponsors: Beijing Cervantes Institute, the Embassy of Danmark, Danish Art Council, Danish Cultural Institute, Danish Arts Agencies, Danish Jazz Federations, Danish Radio,Copenhagen Concerts,Beijing Andersen Cultural Center, the Embassy of Norway, the Embassy of Iceland, the Embassy of Sweden, the Finland National Art Committee, Bergen Chamber of Commerce and Industry, City of Bergen, Norwegian Arts Council, Innovation Norway, Barco, Gibson, AKG,Sky Music

Official Hotel: MARCO POLO PARKSIDE
The Network Co-sponsors: New Wave Music, Tencent Music, Myspace China

Cooperative Unit: The Tencent Rock'n Roll Channel, Tour’s Movement Rhythm TV, National Radio FM101.8 and HIT FM 88.7

Unit Creation: The XinTai Cultural Development Company, Highland Music, Ghost Rock'n Roll, TuAo, the Star Monthly Company

Television affiliates: Channel[v]

Broadcast affiliates: Chinese International Radio Easy FM 91.5

Print affiliates: Peking Evening Newspaper, the Letter Report, Youth Weekend, City Hua Times, New City Report, Peking Morning Report, Youth in Peking Report, The Evening Legal Report, Exquisite Article Shopping Guidebook, Lately Essential, The City Weekend Magazine, Popular Song Magazine, City Weekend, That's Beijing, Beijing Talk, YOHO current ambition, Time Out, So Cool Magazine

Ambition, 1626 magazines, vogue the man pack, O'the Touch, night Peking, text Yuan tickets, music timespace, modern singer, non- music which rests a day of the ZINE, double
The network support:Tom net, sohu, Yahoo to easily amuse, Chinesely net, guitar China, thousand dragon news nets, Chinese economic net, rock'n roll Peking, rock'n roll year, long swim a net, evil hour the net, cat rush toward a net, Yu hurl net(check later )

Performers：

刘元爵士乐队 Liu Yuan Jazz Band
金佛爵士小组 Golden Buddha Jazz Unit
金浩与朋友对话 Jin Hao With His Friends
露 - 电子三重奏 The Dew Electrio
团结湖 Tuang Jie Hu Groove
张岭和神奇四侠 Zhang Ling with 4 knight-errants
劳伦斯爵士七重奏 Lawrence Ku Septet

张盈爵士小组 Zhang Ying Jazz Group
沙子 SAND
丛林猫Jungle Cat
The Verse
桑巴亚北京
SambAsia Beijing
刘玥爵士三重奏 Liu Yue Jazz Trio
Donny McCaslin Jazz Quartet (美国)
Yahle (西班牙)
Jaume Vilaseca Quartet (西班牙)
Acoustic Sense (丹麦)
Jens Winther Quintet (丹麦)
The Ladies Sing the Beatles (丹麦)
Schack Mates (丹麦)
Sofia Jannok (瑞典)
Anna Nygren (瑞典)
Dag Arnesen Trio (挪威)
Excess Luggage Trio (挪威)
Jacob Young Group (挪威)
The Legendary Twins (冰岛)
Black Cat Bone (加拿大\美国)
Abigail Washburn和她的朋友（美国）
Tube Factory （芬兰)

2007 Beijing Midi Productions

Support

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Tries to listen

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Donny McCaslin Jazz Quartet (US)	http://www.donnymccaslin.com/
Yahle (ES)	http://www.myspace.com/yahlemusic
Jaume Vilaseca Quartet (ES)	http://www.vania.es/eng/cartell/jaume.htm
ACOUSTIC SENSE (DK)	http://www.acousticsense.com
Jens Winther Quintet (DK)	http://www.jenswinther.net
The Beatles Project Chinese/DanishMusic event (DK)
The Martin Schack Band (DK)	http://www.myspace.com/martinschack
Sofia Jannok (SE)	http://www.sofiajannok.com/
Dag Arnesen Trio (NO)	http://www.mulemusic.no
Excess Luggage Trio (NO)	http://www.hammond.no/
Jacob Young Group (NO)	http://www.jacobyoung.no/
Anna Nygren (SE)	http://www.annanygren.com/
Royal Hartigan Trio (US)	http://www.royalhart.com/
Abigail Washburn和她的朋友 (US)
Tube Factory (FI)	http://www.pekkapylkkanen.com/
Black Cat Bone (CA & US)	http://www.ygtwo.com/blackcatbone

Program

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White stage Fri, 21 Sep	Blue stage Fir,21 sep
16:30-17:10	15:40-16:20
Red Hand (China)	Jens Winther Quintet (Denmark)
17:40-18:20	17:20-18:00
Sofia Jannok (Sweden)	Zhang Ying Jazz Group (China)
18:50-19:30	18:30-19:10
Yahle (Spain)	Dag Arnesen Trio (Norway)
20:00-20:50	19:40-20:20
Zhang Ling with 4 knight-errants (China)	Jacob Young Group (Norway)
	21:00-21:50
	Liu Yue Jazz Trio (China)


White stage Sat, 22 Sep	Blue stage Sat, 22 Sep
16:20-17:00	15:30-16:10
Sand (China)	Pekka and his Tube Factory ( Finland)
17:30-18:10	16:40-17:20
The Ladies Sing the Beatles (Denmark)	Jaume Vilaseca Quartet (Spain)
18:40-19:20	18:20-19:00
Jungle Cat (China)	Golden Buddha Jazz Unit (China)
20:20-21:00	19:30-20:10
Acoustic Sense (Denmark)	Anna Nygren (Sweden)
21:30-22:20	20:40-21:20
Jin Hao With His Friends (China)	Donny McCaslin Jazz Quartet (USA)


White stage Sun, 23 Sep	Blue stage Sun, 23 Sep
14:00-14:45	15:30-16:10
SambAsia Beijing	The Schack Mates (Denmark/Sweden)
15:00-15:40	17:10-17:50
Black Cat Bone (USA/Canada)	Excess Luggage Trio (Norway)
16:20-17:00	18:20-19:00
Abigail Washburn&Her friend (USA)	Lawrence Ku Septet (China)
17:30-18:10	19:30-20:10
The Dew Electrio (China)	Liu Yuan Jazz Trio (China)
18:40-19:20	21:20-22:10
The Verse (China)	Yannick Rieu (Canada)
20:20-21:10
Tuan Jie Hu Groove (China)

Donny McCaslin Jazz Quartet (USA)

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:02:00 +0000

8/10/2007 6:48:37 AM - Donny McCaslin waited until his sixth album to use the title In Pursuit (released June 5 on Sunnyside). But the concept of “pursuit” – single-minded devotion to a distant goal, marked by inventive exploration – has characterized his music almost from the beginning.

8/10/2007 6:48:37 AM - Donny McCaslin waited until his sixth album to use the title In Pursuit (released June 5 on Sunnyside). But the concept of “pursuit” – single-minded devotion to a distant goal, marked by inventive exploration – has characterized his music almost from the beginning. Born August 11, 1966, McCaslin grew up in in Santa Cruz, CA; inspired by his father, a pianist and vibraphonist, the youngster started playing tenor saxophone at 12, and quickly progressed, touring Europe and participating in the prestigious Monterey Jazz Festival’s California All-Star band while in high school. After attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he joined Berklee professor Gary Burton’s quintet, with whom he toured for four years. McCaslin moved to New York, in 1991, working with bassist Eddie Gomez and then joining the group Steps Ahead, with whom he made the 1995 disc Vibe (NYC Records). But he really began to turn heads with his solo work in larger ensembles – first Ken Schaphorst’s big band, and subsequently the acclaimed Maria Schneider Orchestra, where his performance on the album Concert In The Garden received a Grammy nomination for “Best Jazz Instrumental Solo” in 2004.

So much for McCaslin’s “traditional” credentials, which provide the anchor for his much-admired work in more adventurous realms. Chief among these is the pianoless quartet Lan Xang (which evolved from an experimental partnership with fellow New York saxist David Binney) and the quintet led by the widely lionized trumpeter Dave Douglas, who added McCaslin to his band in 2005. Reviewing the Douglas Quintet in Jazz Times, Josef Woodard wrote of McCaslin: “He’s a versatile player who moves easily between inside and outside musical zones . . . . [T]here’s a fluidity and grace to his playing even when he’s pushing at envelopes.”

Thanks to the high profile of the Dave Douglas Quintet, McCaslin in the last two years has achieved wider praise for the incisive twists and purposeful turns of his emotionally charged solos. But those qualities – along with his sometimes startling virtuosity, and his distinctive voice as a composer – had actually been on display for much of the previous decade, during which McCaslin proved himself a valued sideman on recordings by Danilo Perez, Luciana Souza, and performances with Tom Harrell, Brian Blade, John Pattitucci, The Mingus Band, and Pat Metheny. . Meanwhile, the previous albums under his own name have shown him subtly incorporating elements of Latin American music within adventurous jazz frameworks.

Ben Monder Jazz Guitarist

Ben Monder studied music at the University of Miami and Queens College. A musician in the New York area for over 20 years, he has performed with a variety of artists, including Jack McDuff, Marc Johnson, Lee Konitz, Paul Motian, George Garzone and Tim Berne. He has also appeared with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra, the Kenny Wheeler Large Ensemble, Guillermo Klein抯 Los Guachos, and is a regular member of the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, the Lee Konitz New Nonet, and Paul Motian抯 Electric Bebop Band. He has conducted clinics and workshops around the world, and served on the faculty of the New England Conservatory for the last three years. Ben continues to perform original music internationally with his own quartet and trio. He has appeared on over 90 CDs as a sideman。And as leader 4 CDs:

Oceana (Sunnyside, 2005)Excavation (Arabesque, 2000)Dust (Arabesque, 1997),Flux (Songlines,1995).

Ben studied music at Queens College and the University of Miami. After returning to New York in 1984, he spent most of his time working with R&B and wedding bands and practicing jazz in his room. His big break came in 1986 when Jack McDuff called him (personally!) to join his band 揟he Heatin? System?for some extended road trips to the Midwest and West Coast. It was during this period that Ben developed an unprecedented tolerance for alchohol and had his first experience of being yelled at on the bandstand. ...

Matt Penman Bassist

Bassist Matt Penman makes his debut as a leader with this vivid, reflective quintet session, featuring Kurt Rosenwinkel on guitar, Aaron Goldberg on piano and Rhodes, Chris Cheek on tenor and soprano saxes, and Jeff Ballard on drums. Mood-wise, The Unquiet isn't unlike Chris Cheek's beautiful album Vine, which features the same instrumentation and even three of the same players -- Rosenwinkel, Cheek, and Penman himself. A modest leader, Penman plays a supportive rhythm section role on these eight fine originals, locking in with Ballard and letting the esteemed soloists do their thing. Cheek and Rosenwinkel state most of the melodies in unison, their tones (respectively dry and echo-drenched) providing rich timbral contrast. Goldberg shines on piano, particularly on the fiercely swinging "Up and Over" and "Sense of Stealth"; he can make the Rhodes sound as gentle as a celeste, particularly under Penman's solo (the only one of the set) on "Treehugger." Penman seems to gravitate toward triple meters; his crafty writing is exemplified by the enigmatic, block-chord intro to the waltz "Keepsake," or the soaring rubato harmonies of "In Piece," which eventually glide into a gentle 6/8, then quietly drift off. ~ David R. Adler, All Music GuideBack to Penman, who already had a 1994 nomination for New Zealand Jazz Album of the Year prior to heading to Berklee and then, New York, in 1995. Since then he's brought his lyrical, woody, booming sound to projects by Cheek, Rosenwinkel, Nils Wogram, Sam Yahel, Kenny Werner, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Nneena Freelon, David Berkman and Mika Pohjola. All these experiences came to a head in Brooklyn in late 2001 with the recording of this disc.

Ted Poor Drumer

Ted Poor graduated from the Eastman School of Music in 2003 where he earned his BM in Jazz Performance and taught on the faculty of the Community Education Division. While at Eastman, Ted studied drum set with Rich Thompson and percussion with John Beck. Now a resident of New York City, Ted performs, records and tours with a variety of musicians in many different ensembles. For the past year he has worked with the guitarist Ben Monder's Quartet and played on Monder's most recent CD to be released later in 2005 (featuring Kermit Driscoll, Skuli Sverrison and Theo Bleckman). Ted is also a member of trumpeter Cuong Vu's trio (with bassist Stomu Takeishi), with whom Ted tours Europe and the US. Recently, the trio joined with guitarist Bill Frissell to make a record of Vu's music entitled 'It's mostly residual', which was released in the fall of 2005. In March of 2004, Ted accompanied saxophonist Chris Potter to Frankfurt, Germany to perform and record Potter's music with the HR Big Band and will return as a guest soloist in July 2005 to perform and record the music of Ornette Coleman. Ted is also a member of the Jerome Sabbagh Quartet; which recently released an album entitled “North” for the Fresh Sounds label. As a leader, Ted has released a debut CD on Trier Records entitled “All Around.” Most recently he has formed Third Wheel, a trio featuring Ben Monder on guitar and Ralph Alessi on trumpet. Ted is a member of groups based outside of NYC as well. He plays with the Rochester based trio Paradigm Shift and performed on their latest release “Shifting Times” (Nagel Heyer Records) featuring Joe Locke, Wycliffe Gordon and Marcus Printup. Ted also plays with the Respect Sextet, Jerseyband, the Andre Canniere Group and Neos - four experimental groups that were formed at Eastman .

Sofia Jannok (Sweden)

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:35:00 +0000

Sofia was born in 1982 and comes from Gällivare in the top of Sweden.

Sofia was born in 1982 and comes from Gällivare in the top of Sweden. She has always been singing and yoiking and when she was about 11 years old she stepped onto the stage. Since that day she has been performing a lot with her music and also taken part in CD’s, music for film and TV, musicals and other nice events. In the spring of 2006 she went out on tour with Rikskonserter throughout Sweden and southeast Europe. Her solo project on cd with producer Svein Schultz was released in February 2007 and is called White / Ceaskat. Now she is working on an album with her band.

was born in 1982 and comes from Gällivare in the top of Sweden. She has always been singing and yoiking and when she was about 11 years old she stepped onto the stage. Since that day she has been performing a lot with her music and also taken part in CD’s, music for film and TV, musicals and other nice events. In the spring of 2006 she went out on tour with Rikskonserter throughout Sweden and southeast Europe. Her solo project on cd with producer Svein Schultz was released in February 2007 and is called White / Ceaskat. Now she is working on an album with her band.

CD's with Sofia:

Calmmit, CD-single, DAT 2000

TV-musik ur dokumentärserien Samerna, Scandinavian Songs 2000

Soundtrack Great North, TVA International inc. 2000

Dál juovlla cuovggaid cahkkehit, Sami christmas CD 2000

Sámi Grand Prix 2001, Rieban 2001

Sámi Grand Prix 2003, Rieban 2003

Liekkas clubmix, PR-single, Publishment 2004

Sofia LP:

Calmmit, CD-single, DAT 2000

TV-musik ur dokumentärserien Samerna, Scandinavian Songs 2000

Soundtrack Great North, TVA International inc. 2000

Dál juovlla cuovggaid cahkkehit, Sami christmas CD 2000

Sámi Grand Prix 2001, Rieban 2001

Sámi Grand Prix 2003, Rieban 2003

Liekkas clubmix, PR-single, Publishment 2004

Tags - jazz , finland , sofiajannok

Jens Winther European Quintet (Denmark )

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:42:27 +0000

Jens Winther; trumpet player, composer and bandleader.

Jens Winther European Quintet’Line up:Jens Winther – trumpet; Claus Waidtløw – Saxophone; Jonas Westergaard – Bass; Dejan Terzic– Drums Jens Winther has been touring all over the world with great musicians like Scott Henderson, Steve Swallow and Thad Jones. Jens has also had the opportunity to perform with Miles Davis (on “Aura“), Abdullah Ibrahim, Hermeto Pascoal, Michel Camillo, Dizzy Gillespie, Cella Cruz and Clark Terry to name but a few.

Check out: www.jenswinther.net for press kit and pi

Tags - cooljazz , denmark , jens , winther

The Ladies Sing the Beatles (Denmark)

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:15:00 +0000

Thulla Veronica ninna

Thulla • Press
“Thulla is a quirky, soulful Danish singer and songwriter. Her music
sounds jazzy, especially as it is accompanied by a jazzy orchestra, but
it defies categorisation into a jazzy box. Perhaps it is her energetic,
eccentric voice that is almost Bjork-like in its raw delivery that makes
her stand out. As one critic writes, she sings with the ³nerves on the
outside of her voice². She has created her own unique blend of jazz,
blues, pop and rock that is soulful, dreamy and unforgettable. Her
unusual and emotional voice - and lyrics - seep under your skin making
you take notice whether you want to or not. She¹s a singer unaffected by
transient trends and manages to sound classical and yet innovative. One
to watch”!
(Celestial Voices, 2003)
“Remember this name: Thulla. Let me be a bridge between you and this
very talented artist and her work (...) Whatever category Thulla¹s music
fits into, rest assuret it is unconventional. In the spirit of sharing
all things good, musical and international, I encourage you to visit
http://www.thulla.net/, listen to all the samples and decide which CD you¹d like
to get first”.
(David Lilly, Nefarious Entertainment Magazine , 2003)
Thulla has released four albums – “Thulla” 1999, “The Spirit of
Yesterday” 2001, “Double Up, Please!” 2002 and “EvergreenMachine” 2003.
She is praised by the big, danish papers, and her albums are sold to
Japan as yet.
She plays a lot of gigs all the year through with her exellent “Thulla¹s
Organic Orchestra”, which count some of the greatest jazz-musicians in
Denmark.

VERONICA MORTENSEN - BIOGRAPHY
Born in Aarhus (Denmark), singer VERONICA MORTENSEN was raised by her mother in Athens, Greece. At the age of 20, she moved back to Denmark to pursue a singing career - a natural choice, being the daughter of 2 musicians. She started her own soulband, a mini-bigband playing Aretha Franklin covers and Motown-classics, and soon after joined the more experimental acidjazzband Virtual Fantasy.

VERONICA graduated from Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus in the summer of 1996 and took her Diploma exam from Rythmic Conservatory of Copenhagen in 1998. She has performed on several albums and TV-shows, both as a lead singer and as a background vocalist.

VERONICA has been a popular guest with the Kluvers Big Band for the last 12 years, with whom she has played the Aarhus International Jazzfestival, toured Estland and played "Sacred Concerts" of Duke Ellington. She also has appeared in rockmusicals like "A tribute to the Blues Brothers", "Another Brick In The Wall" and "Hair" playing in both Copenhagen and Paris.

VERONICA's first album "Pieces In A Puzzle" (2003), was very well received by the critics and was chosen for "Album of the week" by the Danish national radio (DR P4). Following the album she played concerts in Denmark and abroad, among them at the "Bankok Heineken Jazzfestival" (Thailand) and at "Ladies' Jazzfestival" in Gdynia (Poland). Beside her own music and band, she has also appeared with Peter Vuust Quartet, with whom she recorded the cd "Image Of Falling" (Imogena Records 2005).

In April 2007, Veronica released her second album ”HAPPINESS is not included” at Stunt Records.