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Posted in music | tour dates on May 20, 2009
New York Loses Its Jazz Festival (who lost JVC)
"Around this time of year, posters for the JVC Jazz Festival would be appearing on the streets of New York, and jazz tourists would be finalizing plans to arrive in the middle of June for two weeks of bragworthy shows.But for the first time in 37 years, there will be no major summer jazz festival in New York. Nor will there be related series in Miami or Chicago, as the concert company behind them is suffering a financial crisis." [NY Times] (thx Anon)
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Posted on May 20, 2009 2:09 PM
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Comments (19)
"thx Anon"
You're welcome, BV.
Posted by Anonymous | May 20, 2009 2:16 PM
Play them off, Keyboard Cat.
Posted by Anonymous | May 20, 2009 2:19 PM
all is not lost. Jazz is back in zombie form, see the only jazz show in the Northside Festival on June 14th, Public Assembly, 2 PM.
Steve Coleman
Kneebody
Andrew D'Angelo's Gay Disco (with Trevor Dunn and Jim Black)
Ken Thomson's (world inferno, Gutbucket, bang on a can) Slow / Fast
gahhhhh going to be so good.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss76/searchandrestore/NORTHSIDEFest.jpg
Posted by Search and Restore | May 20, 2009 2:21 PM
sorry, but jazz is irrelevant.
Posted by Anonymous | May 20, 2009 2:21 PM
In other NY area jazz-related news, Rutgers University conferred an honorary degree to Sonny Rollins today.
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20090519/NEWS/905190322/Fashion+designer+Marc+Ecko+to+kick+off+Rutgers+graduations+this+week
Posted by Anonymous | May 20, 2009 2:22 PM
^ Related, Bergen Community College today bestowed an honorary Masters of Spoken Word to Henry Rollins.
Posted by Anonymous | May 20, 2009 2:26 PM
you're irrelevant!
Posted by Search and Restore | May 20, 2009 2:27 PM
NY Times? more like NY TiMEHs
Posted by Anonymous | May 20, 2009 2:34 PM
http://www.sadtrombone.com/
Posted by yoga | May 20, 2009 2:55 PM
Such a sad thing. When Festival Productions was bought from George Wein, their festivals went to shit. First, the company lost the rights to the Folk and Jazz festivals in Newport because of non-payment to the venue, and now this.... At least George Wein saved the Newport festivals himself. A shame he can't do the same for the JVC festival.
Posted by Anonymous | May 20, 2009 3:02 PM
Jazz is irrelevant for clueless people.
Posted by Anonymous | May 20, 2009 3:15 PM
the clueless are welcome! They just need to be nicer.
Posted by search and restore | May 20, 2009 3:23 PM
the only legitimate form of expression is underground indie rock. anything else you listen to is crap.
Posted by Anonymous | May 20, 2009 3:24 PM
3:24 - WRONG! the only legitimate form of expression are the specific underground indie rock bands that I listen to! anything else you listen to is crap, even if they're underground indie rock!
Posted by typical BV commenter | May 20, 2009 3:26 PM
solution is so obvious its a wonder no one said it yet - let Todd P organize the Jazz Fest. Believe me it would be the best Jazz Fest in last 37 years
Posted by Anonymous | May 20, 2009 3:39 PM
Not to worry - the 14th annual Vision Festival is THE major NYC jazz festival and will be going on as planned. There won't be a jazz festival with a big corporate name attached, but there will certainly be a jazz festival!
Posted by Jeff Stern | May 20, 2009 3:41 PM
"Such a sad thing. When Festival Productions was bought from George Wein, their festivals went to shit."
That is actually not true. I thought the JVC lineup from last year was a vast improvement on Wein's rather stale programming. Same goes for the last summer's folk and jazz fests. The main problem with the company that bought them was clearly a business one and not an artistic programming one.
Posted by Anonymous | May 20, 2009 3:58 PM
Vision Fest is going to rule. Definitely check it out.
Posted by Search and Restore | May 21, 2009 1:17 AM
Second that...The Vision Festival is featuring musicians that have inspired artists of all genres for a long long time. This year, the dude that's been leading the Sun Ra Arkestra (forever almost) is doing an entire night with various collaborations....
Anyone who enjoys free music of all kinds (noise, electronic soundwork, avant-jazz, etc etc etc) -> The Vision Festival should not be missed...
Posted by Jeremy | May 22, 2009 4:44 PM