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All this week, a small team of Bloggers Supreme is going around the CareFusion Jazz Festival New York asking the question: how did you hear about this concert? Audience member Stuart Math, 63, was tipped off by a fellow swing dancer. ? E-Mail This ???? ? Add to Del.icio.us A jazz guitarist and former Tonight Show bandleader, Eubanks talks with host Michel Martin about his hometown of Philadelphia, getting to play past the commercial break, the Jay Leno/Conan O’Brien debacle at NBC and how it affected him personally. ? E-Mail This ???? ? Add to Del.icio.us Below we conclude Stuart Nicholson’s two-part article on the inner workings of the Molde Jazz Festival—a hugely successful event that brings 100,000 visitors to a city with only 25,000 residents. IT’S said to be the biggest stage ever built in Cumbria – and it’s in Whitehaven for this Saturday’s big eighties pop concert. In a series of articles in this column, Stuart Nicholson has reported on various European festivals that attract a large, young audience that few US jazz events can approach—and without watering down the jazz content, as has become almost de rigueur in the States. Next week marks the 40th anniversary of Woodstock–the festival that all but doomed whatever hope jazz had of reviving its popularity with the young masses. Improve the web with Nofollow Reciprocity. |
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