The Berkeley Jazz Festival
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| The Berkeley Jazz Festival | |
|---|---|
| Location(s) |  Berkeley, California, USA |
| Years active | 1966 — Present |
| Founded by | |
| Date(s) | July |
| Genre(s) | Jazz, Blues, Rock, R&B |
| Website | www.BerkeleyJazzFestival.com |
The Berkeley Jazz Festival is held once a year at the outdoors Hearst Greek Theatre on the University of California, Berkeley campus. The theatre overlooks the San Francisco Bay at Hearst & Gayley Road. The festival is now being produced by "Bay Area Productions", and Gregg W. Perloff's "Another Planet Entertainment", and has no connection to the original UCB-student-run festival, founded in 1966 which ran for more than twenty years.)[1] In addition, Another Planet is the exclusive promoter for the Greek Theatre, an 8,500 capacity outdoor amphitheatre.[2]
In 2007, Harry Belafonte was recipient of the first ever Berkeley Jazz Festival Icon Award.[3]
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[edit] Notable performers
1968
Miles Davis, Carmen McRae, Mike Stern, Eddie Gale, Modern Jazz Quartet, Gerald Wilson's Big Band, and Ike and Tina Turner (rainstorms forced the concert inside to the UC Berkeley's Harmon Gymnasium, which was packed with 8,000 fans)[4]
1975
Cannonball Adderley and Nat Adderley[5]
1976
1979
Joni Mitchell, Jaco Pastorius, Don Alias, Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams
1980
John McLaughlin and Christian Escoudé
Another Planet Entertainment:
2005
Rachelle Ferrell, Lalah Hathaway, Unwrapped All-Stars, Ray Obiedo & the Urban Latin Jazz Project, Mimi Fox, Bobby Caldwell, Boney James, and Kem.
2006
Performers included Chaka Khan, Will Downing, George Duke & Stanley Clarke, Norman Brown, Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band, and Pieces of a Dream
2007
A line-up featuring Rachelle Ferrell, Arlington Houston, Joe Sample & Randy Crawford, Brian Culbertson, Najee, the Superstars of Jazz Fusion staring Roy Ayers, Jean Carne, Lonnie Liston Smith, Jon Lucien and Wayne Henderson.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Ray Obiedo gives the reborn Berkeley Jazz festival a shot of East Bay urban funk
- ^ Another Planet Entertainment
- ^ Berkeley-Jazz-Festival-7-28-07
- ^ Chambers, Jack. Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis, Da Capo Press, page 102, 1998 - ISBN 0306808498
- ^ Sidran, Ben. Black Talk, Da Capo Press, page 65, 1983 - ISBN 0306801841
[edit] External links
- Berkeley Jazz Festival 7-28-07
- 2005 Berkeley Jazz Festival Highlights
- 2005 Concert Review: Berkeley Jazz Festival
- Hearst Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley
- Bay Area Productions
