Cancun
Jazz Festival 2001
Main Concert Saturday May 26
"Ladies in Jazz"
Diana Krall Regina
Carter Cancun
Jazz Band
Other Events May 22-25 See
Info Below
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times, and ticket prices to be announced shortly. Plan on all-evening
events at locations in and around Cancun's Hotel Zone. Estimated ticket
price approximately $20-25 for main concert, other events FREE. Tickets
are for general admission and will ONLY be sold in Cancun, through the CVB
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Canc
Jazz Night
Tuesday, May 22 |
Chucho
Valdez Jr
B5
Juan D' Anyelica
Majazz |
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Mexico's
Jazz Night
Wednesday, May 23 |
Orbis
Tertius
Merida Jazz Quartet and Guests
Alejandro Campos Quartet
Mario Patrón & Band |
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International
Jazz Night
Thursday & Friday,
May 24 & 25 |
Ron
Haynes
Ernest Ranglin
Danilo Pérez
New York Flamenco Reunion |
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Headliner
Biographical Information
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Singer/pianist
Diana Krall got her musical education when she was growing up in
Nanaimo, British Columbia, from the classical piano lesson she began at
age four and in her high-school jazz band, but mostly from her father, a
stride piano player with an extensive record collection. "I think Dad
has every recording Fats Waller ever made," she said, "and I
tried to learn them all." Krall attended the Berklee College of Music
on a music scholarship in the early '80s, then moved to Los Angeles, where
she lived for three years before moving to Toronto. by 1990, she was based
in New York, performing with a trio, and singing. After releasing her
first album on Justin Time Records, Krall was signed to GRP for her
second, Only Trust Your Heart and transferred to its Impulse! division for
her third, a Nat King Cole Trio tribute album called All for You. Love
Scenes followed in 1997, and in late 1998 she issued the seasonal Have
Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. When I Look in Your Eyes followed in
1999. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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A
talented player with a beautiful tone, Regina Carter has the
potential to become the most significant new violinist in jazz since
Jean-Luc Ponty in the late 1960s. Carter began playing violin when she was
four and, after graduating from Cass Technical High School, the New
England Conservatory and Michigan's Oakland University, she became a
member of Straight Ahead. In 1994, she left the band (which had recorded
for Atlantic) to move to New York. Carter has since worked with the Uptown
String Quartet, the String Trio of New York, Oliver Lake and Max Roach.
Her debut set as a leader for Atlantic was a bit R&B- and
pop-oriented, but her appearance near the end of Wynton Marsalis' Pulitzer
Prize-winning Blood On the Fields during 1996-97 nearly always stole the
show. Carter's second solo effort, Something for Grace, also appeared in
1997; her debut for the Verve label, Rhythms of the Heart, followed two
years later. In 2000 she returned with a tribute to her home town, Motor
City Moments. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
