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| Ravinia Announces 2005 Jazz Season Ravinia's 2005 Jazz in June festival-within-a-festival is a four-day jam session with celebrated legends, hot new artists, big bands, intimate solos and even some dance and Gospel for good measure. The series opens on June 16 with a "Big Band Night" that fills the bill with Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band under the direction of Slide Hampton with special guest Roy Hargrove and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Opening the evening is pianist Toshika Akiyoshi. This main-event concert begins at the early start time of 6 p.m., but the music begins earlier than that, when saxophonist Charlie Young leads a master class at 4:30 p.m. in Bennett-Gordon Hall. A Steans Institute jazz Late Show follows the main concert in Bennett-Gordon Hall. The mix gets even hotter the next night, 7 p.m. June 17, with "An Evening of Jazz, Gospel and Dance," featuring the McCoy Tyner Trio, tap-dance phenomenon Savion Glover and the James Memorial Sanctuary Choir glued together by Chicago legend Ramsey Lewis, Director of Jazz at Ravinia. The day begins and ends in Bennett-Gordon Hall with trombonist Samuel Burtis presenting a master class at 4:30 p.m. and the Steans Institute Late Show following the main concert. Ramsey Lewis in back on June 18 in a rare intimate solo recital in the historic Martin Theatre at 7:30 p.m. June 18. Trumpeter Lennie Froy will present a master class in Bennett-Gordon Hall at 2:15 p.m., and the Ravinia Jazz Mentors and Students will give a free preview concert at 3:30 p.m. in the Martin Theatre. The evening ends with a Steans Institute Late Show in Bennett-Gordon Hall. The series ends on Father's Day, June 19, with a real family affair. Saxophonist Branford Marsalis returns to Ravinia for the first time since 1998. Also on the bill is his father?s Ellis Marsalis Quartet featuring brothers Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis. Jazz fusion keyboard legend Chick Corea headlines the evening with Touchstone. A perennial favorite at Ravinia's jazz festival is The Original Pin Stripe Brass Band, which will lead revelers in a parade around the park between events on all four days of jazz. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |