5 Weeks Until JazzFest 2010

Sioux Falls Jazz and Blues is gearing up for JazzFest 2010! There are a ton of new and exiting changes to the festival this year, the most substantial change being the addition of a THIRD DAY to the event. This year, the Sioux Falls Jazz and Blues Festival will begin on Thursday, July 15th. The event will run Thursday and Friday in the evenings, and Saturday starting at noon. For more information, including a list of performers, visit www.siouxfallsjazzfest.com.

Feeling like an Olympian? Don't forget to sign up for our Jazzfest 5K. JazzFest 5K signup

Be sure to follow JazzFest on twitter and facebook

In the picture is Los Lobos. Catch them at JazzFest on Friday, July 16th and you'll probably hear a free sneak-preview of songs from their new album, "Tin Can Trust", to be released August 3rd!

Los Lobos keep busy on the road ahead of new album

Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month with a Variety of Events in April

Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues is preparing to celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) by hosting a number of special events throughout the Sioux Falls area.

JAM was designated by the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History in 2001 and the U.S. Congress passed legislation in 2003 that declared April as Jazz Appreciation Month.

Jazz flows free and has the ability to appeal to a wide variety of music lovers. With such a range, make yourself a part of an audience for one or more of the events below and discover your type of jazz.

Northlanders Jazz Band & All City Middle School Jazz Ensemble Concert
Tuesday, April 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Kresge Recital Hall - Augustana College
Ticketing Info: $5, call 605.335.6101 or visit www.sfjb.org

Brubeck Brothers Workshop
Thursday, April 8 at 3 p.m.
Kresge Recital Hall - Augustana College
Ticketing Info: free and open to the public

Brubeck Brothers Quartet
Friday, April 9 at 8:00 p.m.
Sioux Falls Orpheum Theater
Ticketing Info: $40/$22, call 605.335.6101 or visit www.sfjb.org

The Barnes & Noble Book Fair Supporting Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues
Sunday, April 11 at 10:00 a.m.
Barnes & Noble
Other: Live Music with Dakota Jazz Collective at 2pm and Elizabeth Hunstad at 3pm.
Help SFJB's Education Fund! Part of your purchase will be donated if you use a voucher (available the day of the event), or simply mention Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues when you make your purchases.

Jazz 101 for Adults-The Jazz Diversity Project
Tuesday, April 13 at 7:00 p.m. social hour (appetizers and cash bar), 7:30 p.m. program
CJ Callaway's - South Events Center
Ticketing Info: free to subscribers, $5 for public

Downtown Jazz Crawl
Saturday, April 17 at 5:00 p.m.
Various Locations Downtown
For More Information: call 605.335.6101

Build your own progressive food and music menu as you travel to the various hot spots to experience a wide array of jazz music!

• Horse Barn Arts Center, Danny Larsen 5 p.m.
• Wild Sage Grille, Jim McKinney 6 p.m.
• Taste of the Big Apple, So What 6:30 p.m.
• Michelle's, Against the Grain 7 p.m.
• Latitude 44, "Jazzed" 8 p.m.
• Paramount, Bielfeldt Duo 8 p.m.
• Club David, Lazer Rocket Arm and AdApt 8 p.m. ($6 cover)
• Monks, Take Two Trio 8 p.m.
• Touch of Europe, Polyphase 8:30 p.m.
• Parker's Bistro, Danny Larsen and Greg Olson 9 p.m.

***acts and times subject to change***

For more information about Jazz Appreciation Month events, visit Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues' website: www.sfjb.org.

This year, the national campaign poster featured Dave Brubeck as he was the 2009 Kennedy Center Honoree. He is also the father of Dan and Chris Brubeck who are part of the Brubeck Brothers Quartet; doing their part in Sioux Falls by sharing knowledge about the music and the history of jazz.

Come on out and support Jazz during Jazz Appreciation Month with Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues!

National Jazz Appreciation Month poster features Dave Brubeck
The National Museum of American History (NMAH) has developed a poster of the legendary jazz artist Dave Brubeck to celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month in April.

NMAH Curator of American Music John Hasse worked with the artist Leroy Neiman to have him create the portrait in tribute to Brubeck. Neiman has provided other jazz works for JAM posters featuring Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.

Brubeck is a 2009 Kennedy Center Honoree. In a White House reception for the Kennedy Center honorees, President Barack Obama remarked that he became a lifelong jazz fan after attending a Dave Brubeck concert with his father.

Click here to watch a clip of the 2009 Kennedy Center video.

The museum has printed 250,000 posters for free distribution to schools, libraries, music and jazz educators, music merchants and manufacturers, radio stations, arts presenters, and U.S. embassies worldwide.

Several Past SFJB Artists Nominated for 52nd Annual Grammy's

We always beam with pride when musicians we've presented as part of our concert series or at JazzFest are Grammy Nominees! Here's the listing of jazz and blues categories, as well as a gospel and pop category where jazz and blues artists are included. (Artists that the Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society has presented are in red.) Photo of Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi at the Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Festival 2007 by Kristen Mors Photography.

Best Contemporary Jazz Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

• Urbanus
  Stefon Harris & Blackout
  [Concord Jazz]
  
  
• Sounding Point
  Julian Lage
  [Emarcy/Decca]
  
  
• At World's Edge
  Philippe Saisse
  [E1 Music]
  
  
• Big Neighborhood
  Mike Stern
  [Heads Up International]
  
  
• 75
  Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate
  [Heads Up International]
  
  

Best Jazz Vocal Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

• No Regrets
  Randy Crawford (& Joe Sample)
  [PRA Records]
  
  
• Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings The Music Of Coltrane And Hartman
  Kurt Elling
  [Concord Jazz]
  
  
• So In Love
  Roberta Gambarini
  [Groovin' High/Emarcy]
  
  
• Tide
  Luciana Souza
  [Verve]
  
  
• Desire
  Tierney Sutton (Band)
  [Telarc Jazz]
  
  

Best Improvised Jazz Solo
(For an instrumental jazz solo performance. Two equal performers on one recording may be eligible as one entry. If the soloist listed appears on a recording billed to another artist, the latter's name is in parenthesis for identification. Singles or Tracks only.)

• Dancin' 4 Chicken
  Terence Blanchard, soloist
  Track from: Watts (Jeff "Tain" Watts)
  [Dark Key Music]
  
  
• All Of You
  Gerald Clayton, soloist
  Track from: Two-Shade
  [ArtistShare]
  
  
• Ms. Garvey, Ms. Garvey
  Roy Hargrove, soloist
  Track from: Emergence
  [Groovin' High/Emarcy]
  
  
• On Green Dolphin Street
  Martial Solal, soloist
  Track from: Live At The Village Vanguard
  [CamJazz]
  
  
• Villa Palmeras
  Miguel Zenón, soloist
  Track from: Esta Plena
  [Marsalis Music]
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Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

• Quartet Live
  Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow & Antonio Sanchez
  [Concord Jazz]
  
  
• Brother To Brother
  Clayton Brothers
  [ArtistShare]
  
  
• Five Peace Band — Live
  Chick Corea & John McLaughlin Five Peace Band
  [Concord Records]
  
  
• Remembrance
  John Patitucci Trio
  [Concord Jazz]
  
  
• The Bright Mississippi
  Allen Toussaint
  [Nonesuch]
  

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
(For large jazz ensembles, including big band sounds. Albums must contain 51% or more INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

• Legendary
  Bob Florence Limited Edition
  [MAMA Records]
  
  
• Eternal Interlude
  John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble
  [Sunnyside]
  
  
• Fun Time
  Sammy Nestico And The SWR Big Band
  [Hänssler Classic]
  
  
• Book One
  New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
  [World Village]
  
  
• Lab 2009
  University Of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band
  [North Texas Jazz]
  

Best Latin Jazz Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)

• Things I Wanted To Do
  Chembo Corniel
  [Chemboro Records]
  
  
• Áurea
  Geoffrey Keezer
  [ArtistShare]
  
  
• Brazilliance X 4
  Claudio Roditi
  [Resonance Records]
  
  
• Juntos Para Siempre
  Bebo Valdés And Chucho Valdés
  [Sony Music/Calle 54]
  
  
• Esta Plena
  Miguel Zenón
  [Marsalis Music]
  
  

Best Traditional Blues Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)

• A Stranger Here
  Ramblin' Jack Elliott
  [ANTI]
  
  
• Blue Again
  The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band Featuring Rick Vito
  [429 Records]
  
  
• Rough & Tough
  John Hammond
  [Chesky Records]
  
  
• Stomp! The Blues Tonight
  Duke Robillard
  [Stony Plain Records]
  
  
• Chicago Blues: A Living History
  (Various Artists)
  Larry Skoller, producer
  [Raisin' Music]
  

Best Contemporary Blues Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)

• This Time
  The Robert Cray Band
  [Nozzle Records/Vanguard]
  
  
• The Truth According To Ruthie Foster
  Ruthie Foster
  [Blue Corn Music]
  
  
• Live: Hope At The Hideout
  Mavis Staples
  [ANTI]
  
  
• Back To The River
  Susan Tedeschi
  [Verve Forecast]
  
  
• Already Free
  The Derek Trucks Band
  [Victor Records]
  

Best Gospel Performance
(For solo, duo, group as collaborative performances. Singles or tracks with vocal containing Gospel lyrics. All genres of Gospel music are eligible.)

• Free To Be Me
  Francesca Battistelli
  [Fervent Records/ Word Entertainment]
  
  
• Jesus Is Love
  Heather Headley Featuring Smokie Norful
  Track from: Audience Of One
  [EMI Gospel]
  
  
• I Believe
  Jonny Lang With Fisk Jubilee Singers
  Track from: Oh Happy Day
  [Vector Recordings/EMI Gospel]
  
  
• Wait On The Lord
  Donnie McClurkin Featuring Karen Clark Sheard
  Track from: We All Are One (Live In Detroit)
  [Verity]
  
  
• Born Again
  Third Day
  Track from: Revelation
  [Essential Records]
  

Best Pop Instrumental Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

• In Boston
  Chris Botti
  [Columbia]
  
  
• Legacy
  Hiroshima
  [Heads Up International]
  
  
• Potato Hole
  Booker T. Jones
  [Anti]
  
  
• Modern Art
  The Rippingtons Featuring Russ Freeman
  [Hear Music]
  
  
• Down The Wire
  Spyro Gyra
  [Heads Up International]
  

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Your gift truly makes a difference! Your financial contributions will help our organization send young students to music camp, pair them with music teachers for private lessons, and provide workshops with guest clinicians to develop their abilities and self esteem!

Thank you for your support of jazz and blues music and for inspiring our young people to live out their dreams through music.

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All City High School Jazz Ensemble and Northlanders Sizzle

Last night, the All City High School Jazz Ensemble and Augustana College Northlanders Jazz Band performed at Kresge Auditorium to a nearly full house.

The All City program was established 8 years ago by the Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society and features a select group of high school musicians nominated by their band directors with a focus on the art of jazz improvisation. A high school group is selected and performs in the fall with a middle school program scheduled each spring.

Yamaha artist, trumpeter and composer Jeff Jarvis returned to Sioux Falls and held clinics with both groups and performed as a guest soloist. Mr. Jarvis was most recently in Sioux Falls playing with the Northlanders at the Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Festival last July.

Mr. Jarvis sat in with the All City group for their entire set. He mentioned that as he flew in to Sioux Falls, he noticed all the agriculture in our area and noted that we also "grow good kids in South Dakota."

SFJB board president, Neal Eddy, awarded Lincoln High School senior trumpet player Jordan Hoffman the Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society Scholarship for Higher Learning - a $1,000 award to help with college tuition to a state institution.

As part of the scholarship process, Jordan submitted a written essay to the Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society. Here are a few excerpts that demonstrate his passion for jazz music:

"...to teach kids how to play jazz, we'll I'd pay to have that job and it truly will be a dream come true when it happens," said Jordan.

"Jazz education is essential. The torch is being passed on to my generation and many are ignoring its flame. I plan to take that torch, run with it and keep jazz alive because if jazz dies, then a part of me has too."

Jordan was also a recipient of the Mike Miller Lifetime Achievement Award Scholarship when he was an 8th grader playing in the All City Middle School Jazz Ensemble. He's truly a special kid and a heck of a trumpet player as well.

The Northlanders Jazz Band was smokin’! The band started and ended their set with a bari sax solo. Awesome! Combined with a sizzling rhythm section, accomplished vocalist and great solos peppered throughout their 8 song set – their sound was a wall of swinging greatness.

Its fun for us at the Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society to see kids that were involved in the All City Jazz groups evolve in their musicianship. Three of the Northlanders players are alums of the All City program: Chris Borchardt (alto and soprano sax), Meredith Reynolds (tenor sax), and Collin Block (trumpet).

The Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society would like to thank Dr. Paul Schilf, Ivan Fuller, Stan Eitrem and Augustana College; Jennifer Hawkinson band director at Washington High School, Robert Carlson band director at Lincoln High School, and Shane Macklin band director at Roosevelt High School. Thank you also to Ann Davis, Fine Arts Coordinator at Sioux Falls Public Schools.

The Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society would also like to thank Yamaha Corporation for its sponsorship making Jeff Jarvis's appearance possible.

Kyle Eastwood Band to Perform and Educate in Sioux Falls This Friday!

Jazzman and Composer for Academy Award-Winning Films, Kyle Eastwood Kicks Off Society's Concert Series Friday at Orpheum Theater.

WHAT: Kyle Eastwood Band presented by the Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society
WHEN: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 8PM
WHERE: Sioux Falls Historic Orpheum Theater
TICKET INFO: Tickets are $42 or $25. Available by calling 605-335-6101 or online at www.sfjb.org. Student rush tickets are also available for $12 - ½ hour before the performance with a valid student ID.
WORKSHOP INFO: Eastwood will hold a FREE educational workshop at the Jeschke Fine Arts Center on the USF campus at 3 p.m. on Friday.
LISTENING PARTY AT TRE LOUNGE: Listen to Kyle's latest album "Metropolitain", enjoy happy hour specials and win a pair of tickets to Friday's concert - tomorrow night from 4-6p.m.

"Very sharp work. There's no denying Kyle has imagination and skill.”
- The Observer

The Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society will kick off its 2009-10 Concert Series with world-renowned bassist, band leader and composer, Kyle Eastwood and his band, on Friday, November 13 at the Sioux Falls Historic Orpheum Theater.

As the son of the Hollywood Legend Clint Eastwood it is perhaps unsurprising that Kyle Eastwood is able to produce an air of the "super cool" with his music. His smart, sophisticated and intelligent style has earned him a place on the jazz circuit all over the world. The air-tight live performances which he leads with sensitivity and professionalism have become synonymous with the highest quality music available. Working with a highly talented British band Kyle is breaking into the consciousness of music lovers all over the world and earning a reputation regardless of his surname.

Kyle's first memory of playing music was when Clint taught him to play the left hand bass line of Boogie Woogie while he plaed the right hand solo over the top. But it wasn't until 1986, two years into a film studies major at USC, that Kyle realized music was his true passion. After years of paying his dues gigging around Los Angeles and New York, his debut album From Here to There was released on Sony in 1998.

Eastwood has released four jazz albums as a leader and has composed and arranged music for eleven films including his father's award-winning pictures Gran Torino, Flags of Our Fathers, Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima, Mystic River and the upcoming Invictus.

Eastwood's latest release, "Metropolitain", was released in June 2009 in the US. Co-produced by Erin Davis (son of Miles) and Kyle's long term writing partner Michael Stevens, the new album is set to capture the attention of the jazz world with its forward thinking style and the gathering of some of the best of today's jazz musicians.

As someone who has had a myriad of opportunities to shine, Kyle Eastwood has truly carved his own path as a musician. His playing reflects the richness and diversity of his experience.

The Kyle Eastwood Band concert and educational workshop are funded in part by a generous donation of Chuck and Jill Point, Avera McKennan, Vern Eide Motorcars and the Performing Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts with additional contributions from South Dakota Arts Council, General Mills Foundation, and Land O' Lakes Foundation.

Jazz 101: For Adults - Kyle Eastwood and Jane Monheit Preview

WHAT: Jazz 101 – For Adults: Kyle Eastwood & Jane Monheit Preview WHEN: Thursday, November 5th, 2009 – 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. WHERE: CJ Callaway's South Events Center - off of 69th and Minnesota Ave. PRICE: FREE to subscribers and $5 to non-subscribers. Please RSVP by calling 605-335-6101

Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society is hosting a jazz adult education evening and social mixer for music lovers on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at CJ Callaway’s from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Free appetizers and a cash bar will be available.

This informal night will feature a discussion of 2 of the 5 artists that will be performing at during the 2009-10 "Legends In the Making" Concert Series. The Kyle Eastwood discussion will focus around his jazz upbringing and career, and the Jane Monheit discussion around her vocal style.

All those in attendance will be eligible to win a pair of tickets to the Kyle Eastwood Band concert on Friday, November 13th!

Cost for this educational evening is FREE to subscribers and only $5 for non-subscribers. Please RSVP by calling 605-335-6101!