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| Chicago Jazz Festival 2007 To Feature ’Student Musician Day’  The week-long celebration of jazz leading up to the 29th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival is now more appealing to teenagers. In addition to the afternoon and evening performances programmed by the Jazz Institute of Chicago and produced by the Mayor's Office of Special Events for the world's largest free jazz festival, high-school musicians and their guests are invited to attend a free ticketed event at the prestigious Symphony Center's Buntrock Hall on Friday, August 31."The Jazz Institute Presents Follow the Second Line" is a morning showcase starting with a sneak preview of the international documentary feature film about some of the leading New Orleans-displaced traditional-jazz musicians, as well as a solo performance by its main character, clarinet-virtuoso Evan Christopher, who incidentally turns 38 years old that day. The New York Times concert review noted the "forthright sound and hungry energy of his extravagant talent, which he reigned in and condensed into hard focus" for his JVC Jazz Festival solo debut in New York City last summer. After the screening and solo, Christopher will join a panel discussion about the future of traditional jazz and its current concert-venue rise, including legendary Delmark record-label founding owner Bob Koester, along with New-Orleans music professor and French-knighted saxophonist Kidd Jordan, who is performing at the local Velvet Lounge that weekend. They are internationally-respected aficionados of traditional jazz, known as the popular music that filtered from New Orleans through Chicago around the 1920s. Further appealing to student musicians and their guests, the Chicago Jazz Festival will offer two afternoon one-hour performances in Grant Park at the fest's Jazz & Heritage Stage: Kenwood Academy High School Jazz Band at 12:30pm, and the Jazz Institute's own Jazz Links Student Ensemble with its artist-in-residence Charlie Haden beginning at 3:30pm. For a complete jazzfest schedule, visit www.chicagojazzfestival.us "We're pleased to present this pop-culture event to attract more teenagers to the Chicago Jazz Festival this year, " says Jazz Institute Executive Director Lauren Deutsch. Online reservations are required at www.followthesecondline.com for only the free Symphony-Center tickets. Each web-registered student musician will be issued up to four tickets, which will be confirmed by email and available for will-call retrieval with high-school identification at Symphony Center's second-floor Buntrock Hall, entrance located at 220 South Michigan Avenue, from 8am to 8:30am on the morning of the event. After the event, the film's website will feature news and previews relevant to the movie made by native Chicagoan Valerie Shields. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |