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The Savannah Jazz Festival is an annual celebration of jazz music located in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It takes place for eight days during the last full week in September each year. Events and performances take place in various venues throughout the city, culminating in three days at the historic Forsyth Park.
Washington Women in Jazz Festival [45] Florida. Clearwater Jazz Holiday [46] Encore Holiday Jazz Festival [citation needed] Jacksonville Jazz Festival in Jacksonville [47] Jazz In The Bay [48] Jazz on the Green in Fort Myers [49] Suncoast Jazz Classic in Clearwater Beach [50] Tampa Bay Blues Fest [51] Wesley Chapel Jazz Festival [52] Georgia ...
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ ɡ ɪ ˈ l ɛ s p i / gil-ESP-ee; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. [2] He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge [3] but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz.
The culture of the Southern United States, Southern culture, or Southern heritage, is a subculture of the United States. From its many cultural influences, the South developed its own unique customs, dialects, arts, literature, cuisine, dance, and music. [3] The combination of its unique history and the fact that many Southerners maintain—and ...
MUSIC FESTIVAL[1]: The Jacksonville Jazz Festival is an annual music festival that has been held for more than 40 years. The festival begins with the Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition, followed by three days of live, free entertainment on multiple stages set in downtown Jacksonville. JACKSONVILLE JAZZ PIANO COMPETITION[2]: Performances are ...
Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, is one of America's major performing arts festivals. It was founded in 1977 by Pulitzer Prize -winning composer Gian Carlo Menotti, who sought to establish a counterpart to the Festival dei Due Mondi (The Festival of Two Worlds) in Spoleto, Italy. When Italian organizers planned an American ...
UCF Orlando Jazz Festival; University of North Florida School of Music This page was last edited on 11 January 2024, at 04:44 (UTC). Text ...
The Charleston Jazz Orchestra is a big band that does just this by presenting concerts of standard South Carolina jazz as well as new works. To this day Charleston maintains a vibrant and diverse jazz scene and is home to many musicians in all genres. As it has always been, Charleston remains a melting pot of musical styles and influences.