PLUS THIS
DYNAMIC LINEUP INCLUDING: TROMBONE
SHORTY, KATHLEEN GRACE WITH LARRY GOLDINGS, UA STUDIO JAZZ ENSEMBLE WITH TERELL
STAFFORD, AND SHEILA JORDAN WITH CAMERON BROWN
The line-up for the 5th annual Tucson Jazz Festival,
scheduled for Jan. 11-21, 2019, continues to take shape with the announcement
of Poncho Sanchez headlining the free Downtown Jazz Fiesta on Monday, Jan. 21,
2019 (MLK Day). Last year the Jazz Fiesta drew more than 12,000
people downtown. Funding for the concert is provided, in part, by the Arizona
Commission on the Arts and Rio Nuevo.
As the
finale, the Downtown Jazz Fiesta will transform downtown Tucson into a concert
destination with 30 bands performing in 5 venues including 2 outdoor stages on
MLK Day, from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. In addition to live performances, the
Downtown Jazz Fiesta will include beer gardens, food trucks featuring a variety
of cuisines, art demonstrations, interactive experiences and the unique and
eclectic bars and restaurants of downtown.
Poncho
Sanchez is a Mexican American conguero, Latin jazz band leader, and salsa
singer. In 2000, he and his ensemble won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz
Album for their work on the Concord Picante album Latin Soul. Sanchez has
performed with artists including Cal Tjader , Mongo Santamaría , Hugh Masekela
, Clare Fischer and Tower of Power.
"This
year, with the addition of Poncho Sanchez, we expect the Downtown Jazz Fiesta
to continue to grow and we are anticipating more than 15,000 attendees,"
said Yvonne Ervin, founding Executive Director and current Artistic Director.
Tucson Jazz
Festival organizers also announced that several recently added concerts will go
on sale Friday, August 24: On Monday, Jan. 14, Kathleen Grace, an
internationally recognized jazz vocalist, songwriter and educator, will be
performing at Club Congress with pianist Larry Goldings. Grace, a Tucson
native, appeared with Portugal the Man on the American Music Awards and will be
featured on Jim James' (My Morning Jacket) solo 2018 album.
The UA Fred
Fox School of Music Studio Jazz Ensemble with Terell Stafford will be at
Crowder Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 15. Stafford, an acclaimed trumpet player and
educator who is Director of Jazz Studies at Temple University, has been hailed
as "one of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player"
by piano legend McCoy Tyner.
Saturday,
Jan. 19 NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan and Cameron Brown will perform a jazz
vocal and upright bass duo at the Temple of Music and Art. Jordan made history
with her classic 1963 debut Portrait of Sheila, Blue Note record's first album
by a vocalist.
The 11-day
Tucson Jazz Festival, scheduled for Jan. 11-21, 2019, will also feature
performances by Joey Alexander plus the Tucson Jazz Institute Ellington Band
with special guest Terell Stafford, Bobby McFerrin, Asleep at the Wheel,
Trombone Shorty, Pink Martini and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Special EXF
with special guests Regina Carter and Eric Marienthal, Tucson Swings Brightly:
The Music of Nelson Riddle featuring Ann Hampton Callaway, and an all-women
double bill with the Magos Herrera Quartet and Jane Bunnett and Maqueque. Two
of the shows are sponsored by the Tucson Desert Song Festival: Mr. McFerrin and
the all-female show.
All shows
are expected to sell out this year as ticket sales are currently far ahead of
last year's numbers. Seven of nine shows sold out at the last Tucson Jazz
Festival held in January 2018.
Tickets can
be purchased through the festival website - www.tucsonjazzfestival.or....
Artists in
order of appearance:
Friday, Jan.
11
Tucson Jazz
Institute Ellington Band with Terell Stafford
Joey
Alexander
7:30 p.m.
Fox Tucson Theatre
Saturday,
Jan. 12
Groover
Quartet
Special EFX
with special guests Regina Carter and Eric Marienthal
7:30 p.m.
Fox Tucson Theatre
Sunday, Jan.
13
Tucson
Swings Brightly: The Music of Nelson Riddle featuring Ann Hampton Callaway,
Katherine Byrnes and Joe Bourne with Jeffrey Haskell, conductor
7:30 p.m.
Fox Tucson Theatre
Monday, Jan.
14
Kathleen
Grace with Larry Goldings
7:30 p.m.
Club Congress
Tuesday,
Jan. 15
UA Studio
Jazz Ensemble with special guest Terell Stafford
7:30 p.m.
Crowder Hall
Wednesday,
Jan. 16
All-Women
Double Bill
Magos
Herrera Quartet
Jane Bunnett
and Maqueque
7:30 p.m.
Fox Tucson Theatre
Thursday,
Jan. 17
Asleep at
the Wheel
7:30 p.m.
Fox Tucson Theatre
Friday, Jan.
18
Trombone
Shorty
Presented by
UAPresents
7:30 p.m.
Centennial Hall
Saturday,
Jan. 19
Pink Martini
and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra
7:30 p.m.
TCC Music Hall
Saturday,
Jan. 19
Sheila
Jordan and Cameron Brown
7:30 p.m.
Temple of Music and Art Cabaret Room
Sunday, Jan.
20
Pink Martini
and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra
2:00 p.m.
TCC Music Hall
Sunday, Jan.
20
Bobby
McFerrin: circlesongs
7:30 p.m.
Fox Tucson Theatre
Monday, Jan.
21
Free
Downtown Jazz Fiesta
Poncho
Sanchez plus 30 bands on various stages downtown
11 a.m. to
9:00 p.m.
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