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The 4th annual Franz Jackson Jazz Celebration
The 4th annual Franz Jackson Jazz Celebration
Date Posted: October 11 2010
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THE 4th ANNUAL FRANZ JACKSON JAZZ CELEBRATION PRESENTS: KIMBROUGH & COMPANY WITH GUEST VOCALIST LISA ROTI!
DOWAGIAC, MI – Chicago’s newer generation of jazz artists will be showcased at a concert with a nod to the past at the Wood Fire Italian Trattoria, 134 S. Front Street, Dowagiac, Michigan on Saturday, November 6, 2010 at 7:00pm (ET).
The group Kimbrough and Company, fronted by guitarist Brent Kimbrough, will have its hybrid of jazz, blues, and swing front and center as they roll into Dowagiac to honor the late Chicago jazz saxophonist, Franz Jackson. The band draws from a collective accumulation of backgrounds, disciplines, and educations as diverse as jazz, blues, rock, classical, R&B, and every Latin style and incarnation.
Joining Kimbrough and Company will be Chicago vocalist Lisa Roti about whom Timeout Chicago Critic’s Choice writes: "There's another female jazz singer on the scene, and you should get to know her. Roti's sultry, laid-back delivery masks an uncanny knowledge of the lyrics, and did we mention her intonation and diction are to die for? Okay, okay, we're exaggerating, but only a little, and since our fair city's so lacking in quality jazz singers, this is one to take to the bank." Roti was a protégé of Franz Jackson and he appears on her debut album, “Comes Love”.
The 4th Annual Franz Jackson Jazz Celebration honors Jackson, a former Dowagiac resident, for his lifelong contribution to the music world. Franz Jackson, who passed away at the age of 95 in May, 2008, started his professional career at the age of 16 with boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons and played with virtually every renowned jazz great including Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Fletcher Henderson, Jimmy Noone, Earl Hines, Ella Fitzgerald and Lena Horne. His resume boasted credits as a repeat command performer for the King of Sweden, a 2005 American Heritage Jazz Series Honoree as one of the Greatest Living Jazz Tenor Saxophonists, an appearance on “The Prairie Home Companion” with Garrison Keillor and an interview by Studs Terkel for Steppenwolf Theater’s TRAFFIC series on improvised music. In 2006, he received a nomination for the National Endowment For The Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship and was the recipient of the Jazz Institute of Chicago Walter Dyett Lifetime Achievement Award. Jackson continued his career until shortly before his death, appearing at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in May, 2007. In November, 2007, Mr. Jackson’s 95th birthday was celebrated in Dowagiac with a nearly 3-hour-long gala concert featuring two dozen musicians from across the country. The event raised over $7,000 which was donated to four non-profit organizations focused on arts education, preservation and promotion.
$15 for adults, $5 for children ages 5-12 and children under 5 are admitted free. Limited seating is available and reservations are strongly recommended. Reservations may be made by calling The Wood Fire at 269-782-0007. Please visit www.franzjackson.com, www.facebook.com/franzjackson, or www.woodfiredining.com for more information.
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