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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.
The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (English: Montreal International Jazz Festival) is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. Every year it features roughly 3,000 artists from 30-odd countries, more than 650 concerts ...
Professional ratings. Recorded Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival is a live album by saxophonist John Handy, recorded in 1965 and released in 1966. It is Handy's most famous album, [citation needed] and his debut on Columbia. The original album only features two long instrumental pieces, notable for their "free form", a peculiar use of ...
Monterey (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ə ˈ r eɪ / ⓘ; Spanish: Monterrey) is a city in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on the U.S. state of California's Central Coast. Founded on June 3, 1770, Monterey was the second permanent settlement (after San Diego) established by Spanish explorers in what is now California.
3 – The very first Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival started in Jakarta, Indonesia (January 3 – 5). [ 4] 18. The 32nd Vossajazz started at Voss, Norway (March 18 – 20). [ 5] Berit Opheim was awarded Vossajazzprisen 2005. [ 6] 19 – Jan Gunnar Hoff performs the commissioned work Free flow songs for Vossajazz 2005.
The Monterey International Pop Festival was a three-day music festival held June 16 to 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. [1] The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin and the introduction of Otis Redding to a mass ...
Forest Flower. For the racehorse, see Forest Flower (horse). Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd at Monterey is a live album by jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd, recorded at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1966 by the Charles Lloyd Quartet featuring Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee and Jack DeJohnette. The album was a crossover hit, becoming popular on FM rock ...
James L. Lyons (November 18, 1916 – April 10, 1994) was founder of the Monterey Jazz Festival, and was its manager from 1958 until his retirement in 1992. The first Monterey Jazz Festival took place in September 1958 at Monterey, California. [1] Participants included performers such as Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars, Dizzy Gillespie ...