7th Annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival Scheduled for Nov. 4-18 The two-week event in New Jersey will feature such artists as Eddie Palmieri, Marcus Miller, and Kurt Elling
Marcus Miller performing at the 2018 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (photo by Joel A. Siegel)
The seventh annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival at Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center is scheduled for Nov. 4-18.
This year’s festival will present a wide variety of
musicians, including a number of vocalists; Latin jazz artists like
Eddie Palmieri; bassist Marcus Miller with David Sanborn and Lalah
Hathaway; and the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra with special guests
Jon Faddis, Kurt Elling, Stefon Harris, and Catherine Russell.
“I’m beyond excited to announce the seventh annual TD James
Moody Jazz Festival at NJPAC,” said bassist Christian McBride, NJPAC’s
jazz advisor, in a press release. “It’s gonna be a good one, baby.
There’s something very, very special about jazz vocalists, and we’re
committed to making sure the legacy of jazz vocals is alive and
thriving. This year we’ll present the world’s finest singers, from
Dianne Reeves and Gregory Porter to Cécile McLorin Salvant and Lalah
Hathaway, and will continue to search for the next greats through the
Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition—the SASSY
Awards—which is always a huge hit.”
The festival will conclude with https://jazztimes.com/news/njpac-announces-finalists-2018-sarah-vaughan-competition/" rel="nofollow - the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition on Nov. 18 at 3 p.m. in Newark’s Victoria Theater.
For more information and to buy tickets, go https://www.njpac.org/buy-tickets/moodyjazz" rel="nofollow - here .
from https://jazztimes.com
|