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The Monterey Jazz Festival is a nonprofit organization. It has donated its proceeds to musical education since its inception in 1958. The festival's scholarship program started with a $35,000 scholarship fund in 1970. As of 2012, the festival invests $600,000 annually for jazz education.
Latin jazz is a genre of jazz with Latin American rhythms. The two main categories are Afro-Cuban jazz , rhythmically based on Cuban popular dance music, with a rhythm section employing ostinato patterns or a clave , and Afro-Brazilian jazz, which includes samba and bossa nova .
Elias was born in São Paulo, Brazil, on 19 March 1960. She started studying piano when she was seven, and at age twelve she was transcribing solos from jazz musicians. She began teaching piano when she was fifteen, [ 4] and began performing at seventeen with Brazilian singer-songwriter Toquinho and touring with the poet Vinicius de Moraes .
This annual festival celebrates the indigenous music and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana, so the music encompasses every style associated with the city and the state: contemporary and traditional jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, Cajun music, zydeco, Afro-Caribbean, folk music, Latin, rock, rap music, country music, and bluegrass.
Caribbean Sea Jazz Festival: Aruba. The Caribbean Sea Jazz Festival in Aruba is an outdoor festival featuring local and international jazz musicians. The festival presents local and international bands and artists over a two-day event in October. While jazz music is the focus, other artistic elements including dance, poetry, and art are also ...
The Beaches International Jazz Festival is a month-long music festival held each year in the lakeside Beaches community of Toronto in July. Originally started in 1989, [1] it is now one of Canada 's largest free jazz festivals with nearly 1,000,000 attendees, throughout its month-long span. [2]
Go: Summer Jazz Room Series, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, William Paterson University, Shea Center for Performing Arts, 300 Pompton Road, Wayne, $18; 973-720-2371, wpunj.edu ...
The former Festival Site at CSULB campus (2003) John Lee Hooker performing at the Long Beach Blues Festival, California, August 31, 1997 The Festival was set up in 1980 by jazz radio station KLON (later renamed to KKJZ) in Long Beach, California under the direction of Bernie Pearl, [1] who was the host of a blues program "Nothing But The Blues" on KLON at the time.