The 53rd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival | Sept. 17th – 19th, 2010
53rd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Presented By Verizon
Features
Legendary Jazz Icons, Visionary New Artists, Classic Collaborations, International Array of Multi-Cultural
Performances, September 17 – 19, 2010
Headliners Include
Harry Connick, Jr., Dianne Reeves,
Freedom Band with Chick Corea, Kenny Garrett,
Christian McBride, and
Roy Haynes; Ahmad Jamal, Angelique Kidjo, Les Nubians, Roy Hargrove Big Band, Billy Childs with the Kronos Quartet, Septeto Nacional de Cuba,
Delbert McClinton,
Trombone Shorty, Naomi
Shelton and the Gospel Queens, Chris Potter Underground, Nellie McKay,
Marcus Roberts, Rudresh
Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak
Coalition, Gretchen
Parlato, Jake Shimabukuro, Fred Hersch, and Many More
500
Artists to Perform on 8 Stages for 3 Nights and 2 Days of Nonstop Jazz
with Tickets Available from Only $35
New
Single Day Arena Tickets, Premier Access Pass, and Local’s Package Available for First Time; Family Discount Package Available
from $80, Youth Tickets Only $15
Festival Features Debut of Harry
Connick, Jr.,
Ahmad Jamal,
Roy Haynes, Angelique
Kidjo, Delbert
McClinton, Nellie McKay, Les
Nubians, Trombone Shorty, and More
Performances
throughout the Weekend by 2010 MJF Artist-In-Residence Dianne Reeves, 2010 MJF Showcase Artist Roy Haynes, 2010 MJF Commission Artist Billy Childs
Debuting “Music for Two
Quartets” with the Kronos
Quartet
March 29, 2010; Monterey, CA; The
2010 Monterey Jazz Festival
Presented by Verizon will feature a variety of legendary
performers, popular favorites, and visionary new artists in a weekend of
jazz, blues, gospel, and genre-defying music that has characterized the
world-renowned event since its inception in 1958. The 53rd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival
Presented by Verizon takes place September 17 – 19, 2010 in Monterey, California on
the oak-studded Monterey Fairgrounds, site of the first Festival, and
home to MJF for 53 years.
A complete list of performers is at the bottom of
the press release.
Please click
here to read
detailed background information about the 2010 Monterey Jazz Festival
Artists.
Tickets are on sale now by phone at
(925) 275-9255 and on the Monterey Jazz Festival’s website, montereyjazzfestival.org. Full Weekend Arena Packages are
available from $225, offering a reserved seat to each of 5
concerts on the Arena/Jimmy Lyons Stage (renewable annually), plus general admission access to 7
additional Grounds Stages and all Grounds activities. Daily Grounds Tickets are available
from $35, including general admission access to
7 Grounds stages and activities, plus simulcasts of all Arena concerts. Full Weekend Grounds Tickets are
available for $110. MJF’s Family Discount Package begins at
$80 for 2 Adult and 2 Youth Grounds Tickets, offering a savings of up to $20. Throughout the weekend, Youth Tickets (Ages 2 – 18) will be
available for $15.
NEW SINGLE DAY
ARENA TICKETS, PREMIER ACCESS PASS, LOCAL’S PACKAGE, OFFICIAL HOTELS
New for 2010 are
Single Day Arena Tickets, including a
reserved, non-renewable seat for the Arena concerts on the day selected,
plus general admission access to 7 Grounds stages and activities. Friday’s Single Day Arena Tickets are $66 and include one
Arena concert plus all Grounds entertainment; Saturday or Sunday’s Single Day Arena Tickets are $99
and include two Arena concerts on each day plus all Grounds
entertainment.
The Festival
is also introducing a new, VIP opportunity for fans, the Premier Access Pass. Priced at $65 for Friday, $100 for Saturday or Sunday, and $265 for the entire weekend (with
2010 MJF adult ticket purchase), the Premier Access Pass will include a special VIP entrance to the Fairgrounds,
access to the Premier Access Club
(with closed-circuit simulcasts
of Arena concerts, meet and greet
visits by 2010 MJF artists, a no-host bar, and private restrooms), and a Premier Access Gift Bag (with
gifts from MJF and from its Premier Access Partners, including the Cayman Islands Tourism Department).
Also new in 2010, MJF will offer residents of Monterey
County a “Local’s Package,” which includes a copy
of the 2010 MJF Souvenir Magazine and a discount coupon for MJF
merchandise. The Local’s Package is available to those purchasing
an Arena Package, Single Day Arena Ticket, or Grounds Ticket (excluding Youth Tickets).
This year the
Festival welcomes a new partner, The
Inns of Monterey, Official Hotels of the Monterey Jazz
Festival. Offering 5 distinctive, unique, boutique hotels, The Inns of
Monterey will be including special rates and amenities for their
Monterey Jazz Festival guests. Details are available from The Inns of
Monterey at (800) 232-4141 or on their website, innsofmonterey.com.
NEW GROOVES NIGHT,
FAMILY DISCOUNT PACKAGE,
FAMILY DAY, FRONT BOX
AUCTION, ON AND OFF SITE
PARKING
The Festival’s new, innovative approaches for 2010 will be
joined by the return of prior successes, including New Grooves Night, Family Day, and MJF’s Annual Front Box Auction.
New Grooves returns on Friday, September 17, with some of the
more offbeat groups of the Festival. New Grooves for 2010
features the Hip-Hop symphony, Brass
Bows and Beats in Dizzy’s Den; the dynamic and quirky
pianist and vocalist Nellie McKay
and the cutting edge Indo-Pak
Coalition with Rudresh
Mahanthappa in the Night Club. The virtuoso vocal group, the House Jacks, rounds out New Grooves on the Garden
Stage.
Families can
one again take advantage of MJF’s Family
Discount Pack, which includes two Adult Grounds Tickets and
two Youth Grounds Tickets (2 – 18 years old) for only $80 on Friday, $100 on Saturday or Sunday — a savings of up to $20. Children
under 2 are free.
Sunday,
September 19 marks the Festival’s 5th Annual Family Day. Families
and children of all ages can participate in special activities, hear the
top student jazz ensembles from
around the United States (selected at the Next Generation
Jazz Festival, April 9 – 11, 2010) along with MJF’s own Next Generation Jazz Orchestra and
the Monterey County High School
All-Star Band, and join in the fun with the return of the
popular Percussion Playshop,
MJF’s innovative Instrument Petting
Zoo with high-tech, professional musical instruments
provided by Yamaha. The
younger set can also bounce in the “Jazzy
Jumper” on the West Lawn.
MJF’s
Front Box Auction
presents a golden opportunity for jazz fans to enjoy the Monterey Jazz
Festival while supporting jazz education. Patrons can bid to sit at the
front of the Arena with three of their closest friends in four Front Box seats for the 53rd
annual MJF. The Front Box Auction
opens on March 29, 2010
at 9:00 am and
concludes on June 1, 2010 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time. For more
information, please visit montereyjazzfestival.org.
On-site
Fairgrounds Parking will be made available
this year to purchasers of Full Weekend Arena Packages and to purchasers
of the new Premier Access Pass. As in 2009, the Festival will be
partnering with Monterey Peninsula
College and Monterey
Salinas Transit to offer off-site parking at Monterey Peninsula College and a
frequent shuttle service between MPC parking and the Festival Grounds.
The Festival charges a $10 fee for parking at MPC.
MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL’S
PARTNERS IN JAZZ
Every year, partners play an important role in helping
the Festival fund its Jazz Education Programs, with efforts led by Presenting Partner, Verizon, now celebrating their 26th year with the
Monterey Jazz Festival. Other returning partners include Best Buy, Yamaha Instruments, North Coast Brewing Company, Apple/iTunes, Comcast Spotlight, the San Jose Mercury News,
and DownBeat
Magazine. The Festival has established a new media
partnership with top ranked Bay Area radio station, KGO Newstalk AM 810. The Cayman Islands Tourism Department
will join MJF as a Premier Access Partner.
The Monterey
Jazz Festival also receives invaluable support for the Festival and its
Jazz Education Programs from the National
Endowment for the Arts, Surdna
Foundation, William and
Flora Hewlett Foundation, David
& Lucile Packard Foundation, D’Addario Music Foundation, Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Joseph Drown Foundation, Harden Foundation, William McCaskey Chapman & Adaline
Dinsmore Chapman Foundation, Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation, Inc., Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Pebble Beach Company Foundation, Rotary International, as well as
from generous individual patrons.
Tickets are on sale now by phone at
(925) 275-9255 and on the Monterey Jazz Festival’s website, montereyjazzfestival.org. Full Weekend Arena Packages are
available from $225; Daily Grounds Tickets are from $35; Full Weekend Grounds Tickets are $110. MJF’s Family Discount Pack begins at $80
for 2 Adult and 2 Youth Grounds Tickets. Single Day Arena Tickets for Friday, 9/17 are $66; Single Day Arena Tickets for Saturday, 9/18 or Sunday, 9/19 are $99. Premier Access Passes are priced at
$65 for Friday, $100 for Saturday or Sunday, and $265 for the entire weekend (with
2010 MJF adult ticket purchase).
2010 MJF
Performance Highlights Include:
· Return of jazz
legends Chick Corea, Dianne Reeves, Roy Hargrove, Chris Potter, Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride, Billy Childs
· World Premiere
of 2010 MJF Commission, Billy Childs’ “Music for Two Quartets” with Kronos Quartet
- 2010 MJF Showcase Artist Roy Haynes performs with Freedom Band, Fountain of Youth and is in
conversation with the Jazz Journalists Association - Artists-In-Residence Dianne Reeves performs in the
Arena and Grounds - Ahmad Jamal, Harry Connick, Jr., Angelique Kidjo, Les
Nubians, Delbert
McClinton, Trombone
Shorty, Nellie McKay,
Indo-Pak Coalition, Septeto Nacional de Cuba, Fred Hersch and George Wein make debuts at MJF - Friday’s “New Grooves” features Brass, Bows and Beats, Nellie McKay, Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition
and the House Jacks - Saturday’s blues show in the Arena
includes Delbert McClinton,
Naomi Shelton & the Gospel
Queens, Trombone Shorty
& Orleans Avenue
- Internationally-flavored artists
include Septeto
Nacional de Cuba, Les Nubians, Angelique Kidjo, Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition; Mark Levine & the Latin Tinge, Jake Shimabukuro, Somi, Berklee Global Jazz Institute Septet, Hristo Vitchev, and Dianne Reeves’ “Strings Attached” featuring Romero Lubambo
- Tributes to Artists include Mark Levine & the Latin Tinge “Music of Moacir
Santos”; John Firmin & the
Nocturne Band “Tribute to Hank Crawford, David ‘Fathead’
Newman and Leroy ‘Hog’ Cooper” and Javon
Jackson Band with Les
McCann “Swiss Movement Revisited” - Special conversations with Roy Haynes, George Wein, Sam Stephenson of The Jazz Loft Project; DownBeat
Blindfold Test with Fred
Hersch - Coffee House Gallery Exhibit: The Jazz Loft Project:
Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene
Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965 - 2010 MJF NEA Jazz Masters include Ahmad Jamal, Chick Corea, Roy Haynes, George Wein
- 2010 MJF artists have earned a total
of 38 Grammys - Return of Sunday’s “Family Day” with
fun for all ages - Film screenings of Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense
- Continued
releases from Monterey Jazz
Festival Records, featuring rare and rarified recordings from
the last 50 years on CD in conjunction with Concord Music Group
53rd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Presented
by Verizon, September 17 – 19, 2010
Artist-In-Residence:
Dianne Reeves ● Showcase Artist: Roy Haynes ● Commission Artist: Billy Childs
ARENA
ARTISTS
Friday, September 17
Septeto Nacional de Cuba;
Les Nubians; Roy Hargrove Big Band
Saturday, September 18
Delbert McClinton Band,
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Naomi Shelton & the Gospel
Queens; Freedom Band with Chick Corea, Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride,
Roy Haynes; Dianne Reeves, Billy Childs Quartet (with Steve Wilson,
Scott Colley and Brian Blade) and the Kronos Quartet, “Music for Two
Quartets” (2010 MJF Commission)
Sunday, September 19
Angelique Kidjo featuring
Christian McBride, Lionel Loueke, Kendrick Scott, Mino Cinelu; Next
Generation Jazz Orchestra with special guest Dianne Reeves; Top High
School Big Band from the Next Generation Festival; Harry Connick, Jr.; Ahmad
Jamal
GROUNDS
ARTISTS
Friday, September 17
Roy Hargrove Big Band;
Nellie McKay; Marcus Roberts Trio; Brass, Bows & Beats; Rudresh
Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition; Mark Levine & the Latin Tinge
“Music of Moacir Santos”; the House Jacks; Ben Flocks Quartet; Berklee
Global Jazz Institute Septet
Saturday, September 18
Jake Shimabukuro; Chris
Potter Underground; Septeto Nacional de Cuba; Gretchen Parlato; Kronos
Quartet; Billy Childs Quartet; Somi; Gerald Clayton Trio; Trombone
Shorty & Orleans Avenue; Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens; John
Firmin & the Nocturne Band “A Tribute to Hank Crawford, David
“Fathead” Newman & Leroy “Hog” Cooper”; Hristo Vitchev Quartet;
Berklee Global Jazz Institute Septet; Mo’Fone; Downbeat Blindfold Test with Fred Hersch;
Conversation with George Wein
Sunday, September 19
Dianne Reeves “Strings
Attached” with Russell Malone & Romero Lubambo; Roy Haynes Fountain
of Youth Band; Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio; Javon Jackson Band with Les McCann
“Swiss Movement Revisited”; Fred Hersch Trio; Sachal Vasandani; George
Wein & the Newport All-Stars; Kim Nalley; Le Boeuf Brothers; Banana
Slug String Band; Conversation with Roy Haynes; Conversation with Sam
Stephenson from The Jazz Loft
Project; Nice Guy Trio; the Country’s best high school & college bands
ALL
WEEKEND
Jazz
on Film: Icons Among Us: Jazz in
the Present Tense; Judy Roberts on the Yamaha AvantGrand with
Greg Fishman on saxophone; Arena Simulcasts in the Jazz Theater; Coffee
House Gallery Exhibit: The Jazz
Loft Project. Partial
list, with more artists to be announced. Artists subject to change.
Please click
here to read
detailed background information about the 2010 Monterey Jazz Festival
Artists.