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| JМС Jazz Festival-newport Schedule Update Festival Productions has just announced that the JVC Jazz Festival-Newport, scheduled for the weekend of August 10, 11, and 12, has added the multi-talented blues singer and guitarist Susan Tedeschi to the Sunday, August 12 lineup at Fort Adams State Park. Susan fills in for Etta James who recently canceled her entire East coast tour, due to illness. In the years since she captured the public's musical imagination with her 1998 breakthrough album Just Won't Burn, Susan Tedeschi has established a formidable reputation as a deeply expressive singer, a prodigiously talented guitarist and distinctive songwriter. She's won a large and loyal audience for her ability to craft elements of classic blues, rock, R&B, folk and gospel into a distinctly individual style that honors rootsy musical traditions without being subservient to them. Last year, Susan opened for Etta James at the JVC Jazz Festival in New York; her hot new CD, just released is entitled Hope and Desire. OTHER FESTIVAL NEWS: Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer will be shown at the Jane Pickens Theatre[49 Touro Street, Newport, Rhode Island] on Thursday, August 9 at 7:00 pm in conjunction with jazz festival weekend. This is the first, definitive documentary on the life of the legendary jazz vocalist Anita O' Day. In Anita's own words, we hear the tale of a musical genius who broke race barriers and lived her life boldly, unconventionally, without looking back. In candid interviews with the filmmakers, Anita gives a poignant and often funny account of her jazz odyssey, that is now well into its seventh decade. With her classic wry wit, Anita speaks with television icons such as Dick Cavett, Bryant Gumble, David Frost and Harry Reasoner to reveal why at 87 she is the last living singer from the Golden Age. The film showcases rare and never before seen vintage performances and includes interviews from vocalists Annie Ross and Margaret Whiting, jazz impresario George Wein, award winning arrangers Bill Holman, Johnny Mandel, Russell Garcia & Buddy Bregman, writer/actor producer John Cameron Mitchell, Joe Franklin and friends from different times in Anita's life. This fast paced trip with Anita has pictorial elements of jazz album design and the graphic qualities of the '40s, '50s and '60s, including original ads, reviews, and numerous never-before-seen images. Unique photos of jazz greats taken by Ryszard Horowitz at the 1962 Newport Jazz Festival will be exhibited for the first time in America at this year's JVC Jazz Festival in Newport RI. The exhibition will be centrally located at Fort Adams between the main JVC Jazz Stage and the Pavillion Stage. The exhibition will include 30 images, all of which will be available for sale, and specially selected from Horowitz's newly published book "All That Jazz". Ryszard Horowitz is internationally renowned and recognized as a pioneer of special effects photography predating digital imaging. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |