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What a stellar lineup of performances for this year’s festival. Mark your calendars and save the dates!
Thursday, June 21, Brookhaven Village
Blues Under the Stars
Carolyn Wonderland
Steve Coleman & The OBS All-Stars
Friday, June 22, Brookhaven Village
Jazz Under the Stars
The Bert Dalton Brazil Project
What’s That
Saturday, June 23, Andrews Park
Jazz in the Park
David Sanborn
The Ivan Peña Ensemble
Norman High School Jazz Combo
This year’s Saturday Clinic with the Artists promises to be memorable. Join us at the Norman Santa Fe Depot for:
Bert Dalton and Frank Leto, Brazil’s Beat and Influence on Jazz
Travis Fite, The Tulsa Sound
Ivan Peña, Gypsy Jazz and the Legacy of Django (Reinhardt)
David Sanborn, Sanborn on Sax
And, of course, the ever-fabulous post concert jams on Thursday and Saturday:
Blues Jam
Thursday, June 21
Coach’s Brewhouse
Hosted by Steve Coleman & The OBS All-Stars
Jazz Jam
Saturday, June 23
Norman Santa Fe Depot
Hosted by The Grant Goldstein Ensemble
Renowned jazz organist Dr. Lonnie Smith will take the stage with his trio for the second in the two-concert series Heartland Summit Jazz 2012, a collaboration between The Performing Arts Studio and Jazz In June Inc.
The concert is scheduled for 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, at Meacham Auditorium in the Oklahoma Memorial Union on the University of Oklahoma campus, 900 Asp Ave., Norman.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door, and $15 for students with a valid ID.
A master of the Hammond B-3 organ for more than five decades, Smith has been featured on more than 70 albums. He also has recorded and performed with many of the music industry’s jazz, blues and R&B giants.
A native of Buffalo, N.Y., Smith was immersed in gospel, blues and jazz at an early age. In the late 1950s, he learned to play a Hammond organ. With such early inspirations as organists Wild Bill Davis, Bill Doggett and Jimmy Smith, he began to find his musical voice.
“Even though I didn’t know how, I was able to play right from the beginning,” Smith said. “I learned how to work the stops and that was it. It’s a passion for me, so everything else came naturally.”
After moving to New York City, Smith met George Benson and formed the George Benson Quartet featuring Lonnie Smith in 1966. Smith recorded his first solo album, Finger Lickin’ Good, the following year.
In addition to original compositions and a more traditional jazz repertoire, Smith has recorded tribute albums to the music of Jimmy Hendrix and Beck: Foxy Lady (1994), Purple Haze (1995) and Boogaloo to Beck (2003). The Jazz Journalist Association has named Smith Organ Keyboardist of the Year five times.
The Lonnie Smith Trio also includes Jonathan Kreisberg on guitar and Jamire Williams on drums.
The Performing Arts Studio, located in the historic Norman Santa Fe Depot, produces a variety of programs, including the Summer Breeze, Winter Wind and Sunday Jazz at the Depot concert series.
Jazz in June’s annual three-day summer blues and jazz festival draws some 50,000 attendees.
For more information about the concert, visit www.pasnorman.org or http://jazzinjune.org. Advance tickets can be purchased at http://ticketstorm.com or at the Norman Santa Fe Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave.
The Heartland Summit Jazz series is made possible by support from the Norman Arts Council, Norman Chamber of Commerce, Oklahoma Arts Council, Northeast Blanco Development Corp. and Arrow Gas and Holdings.
Six-time Grammy Award winner David Sanborn heads the list of world-class jazz and blues artists for the 29th annual Jazz in June music festival. The free, three-day event is scheduled for June 21-23.
One of the great saxophonists of the past four decades and inspired by the celebrated Chicago blues artists near his hometown of St. Louis, Sanborn has released 24 albums, including eight gold albums and one platinum album. He has worked in many genres that typically blend instrumental pop, R&B and traditional jazz. Rolling Stone says of Sanborn, “He’s jazz, he’s funk, he’s soul, he’s pop, he’s blues, he’s rock.”
Sanborn will headline Jazz in June’s “Jazz in the Park” Saturday, June 23, at Andrews Park, 201 W. Daws St.
Carolyn Wonderland, whose multiple talents include luxurious vocals, fine guitar work, trumpet and piano playing, and the ability to whistle on key, is set to perform during “Blues Under the Stars” Thursday, June 21, at Brookhaven Village, 3700 W. Robinson St. The Boston Herald describes Wonderland as “a dollop of Janis Joplin, a slice of Stevie Ray Vaughan, and a big load of soulful individuality.”
On Friday, June 22, The Bert Dalton Brazil Project brings Samba and bossa nova rhythms, fiery percussion and top-flight jazz and Latin improvisations to “Jazz Under the Stars” at Brookhaven Village.
Other artists slated to perform at this year’s festival are:
- Steve Coleman & The OBS All-Stars, Thursday, June 21
- What’s That, Friday, June 22
- Ivan Peña, Saturday, June 23
- Norman High School Jazz Combo, June 23
- Norman North High School Jazz Choir, June 23
Jazz in June was founded by the Norman Arts and Humanities Council and the Cimarron Circuit Opera Company in 1984 to bring high-quality blues and jazz acts to Norman. The festival has since developed into a much-anticipated annual event attended by some 50,000 people.
Jazz in June is supported, in major part, by the following by grants and donations from Festival Underwriters: Oklahoma Arts Council: Organizational Support Program (with the assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts); Festival Funders: Norman Arts Council Transient Tax Grant Program, Brookhaven Village, Republic Bank & Trust of Norman, The Friends of Jazz in June; Major Funders: Kirkpatrick Family Fund, Harold and Sue Hamm, Kerr Foundation, Embassy Suites of Norman, Sooner Legends Inn & Suites, MidFirst Bank, Tyler Media, The Norman Transcript; Day Funders: Target Stores, Oklahoma City Community Foundation, Oklahoma Gazette, Cafe Plaid, Shevaun Williams & Associates, E. Frank Gilson, Jaci McAfee Williams; Additional Funders: Chuck and Gina Thompson, Glen Brown, Nancy McClellan, Performing Arts Studio, Abbey Road Catering; Legacy Founders/Donors: Kirkpatrick Family Fund, Oklahoma City Community Foundation, The Jazz in June Legacy Founders.
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