13th Annual Litchfield Jazz Festival Announces 2008 Line-up & Tickets On-Sale Now!    August 1, 2, 3, 2008 Goshen Fairgrounds, Route 63 Goshen, Connecticut Tickets Start at $35 Phone: 860-567-4162 Fax: 860-567-3592 Email: info@litchfieldjazzfest.com Website: www.litchfieldjazzfest.com Friday Night, August 1 5:30-7pm ...

For all musicians out there waiting to get noticed, the Commodores are offering the chance of a lifetime: The contest, Land in the Band, challenges musicians to come up with their own creative version of a Commodores single. Download a track with your chosen instrument deleted from it, and record and upload your version using that ...

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I contribute to a regular podcast titled radio waves from space this episode has been influenced by my experiences at the Melbourne Jazz fest. For this episode I thought Id dig out some of my jazz favourites to share with you. Included is some Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders (who performed the closing night of the festival), some ...

Future shock   Do computers and new technology have a place in contemporary jazz or have they always been there? After missing Herbie Hancock's opening performance by one night earlier in the week. Damn – by all accounts it was a great show, but due to commitments in Sydney I was not going to make it in time. ...

It’s been some time since I’ve been so excited about a music festival. There is always some must see acts, usually squished into one day while you jostle amongst the hordes to get a good vantage point of the stage. However this is something altogether different and perhaps musically a bit different to my usual festival ...

Seating Options: BEST FRIEND: 3-day VIP pass entitles you to up-front seating all weekend, admission to the opening night “Friend’s of the Festival” Party, a Litchfield Jazz Festival tote full of goodies, and VIP parking all weekend. FRIEND: Admission to the opening night “Friends of the Festival” Party and VIP ...

Travel & Accommodations: Litchfield Jazz Festival has a special pricing arrangement with the newly renovated Connecticut Grand Hotel & Conference Center 800-446-1521, in Waterbury. Identify yourself as a festival-goer to receive the Litchfield Jazz Festival rate. Rooms fill up quickly for the festival weekend, so it would be ...

Zaccai & Luques Curtis appear with their group, Insight, on Saturday, August 4, 2007. <tbody>Insight Insight’s music is African-based with Latin influences as well as European and Asian. While the band members are young, they have already made a mark on the jazz industry. Members of the group have already garnered prestigious ...

Sonny Fortune appears on the Litchfield Jazz Festival with his Quartet on Saturday, August 4, 2007. Sonny Fortune Quartet Sonny Fortune was born in Philadelphia in 1939. He embodies all of the finest qualities of late, great musicians like Coltrane and Parker: hard work, dedication to his art, and exceptional music. In 1967 he moved to New York ...