Woody Woodland and Carol Stone, founders of the award-winning
Cape May Jazz Festival, are back on the scene presenting Philly Jazz
Fest “Remembering Grover” September 22, 2012, at the Sheraton
Philadelphia Downtown Hotel Ballroom. Philly Jazz Fest, Inc., a newly
formed nonprofit corporation is proud to have sponsors WRTI Temple
Public Radio and Jazz Times joining them for a spectacular jazz event.
The Sheraton is the perfect location offering its restaurants, bar,
parking and balcony overlooking the lobby.

The festival opens at 1pm with the Immanuel Wilkins Project.
Wilkins impressed Cape May Jazz Festival crowds since age 9 and now 15
he is a prominent young alto performer in the Philadelphia area. A jam
will follow with many of the musicians area fans want to hear including
vocalists Barbara Walker and Jeannie Brooks, sax greats Louis Taylor,
Jesse Andrus, Ken Fowser; trumpeters Daud El-Bakara and Eddie Morgan;
guitarists Darrell Daughtry and Jimmy O’Dell; keyboardist Will Brock and
bassist Steve Green. Between 5pm and 7pm guitarist Teddy Royal with
Tony Day on congas will entertain in the bar area.

At 7pm the Denise King Quintet with vocalist Denise King, tenor
player Bootsie Barnes, trumpeter Duane Eubanks open, followed by Pieces
of a Dream “Remembering Grover”. Grover mentored and promoted Pieces
for many years when they were still teenagers in East Mt. Airy and was
instrumental in their becoming an internationally famous quintet that
has traveled throughout the jazz world. If you have not experienced
this group you are in for a thrill as you watch James Lloyd on
keyboards and Curtis Harmon on drums. You will not want to miss the
Swing City Blues Band with Philadelphia favorite, Frank Bey, whose
Georgia-blues voice is reminiscent of Otis Redding.

Philly Jazz Fest, with plans to move into a 3-day weekend
festival, will become THE Philadelphia jazz showcase restoring the
greatness of the Mellon Jazz Festival of yesteryear with some of the
jazz greats who got their start in Philadelphia.