Jazz News: Mountain festival holdovers; Pay what you choose in NYC; Laufey gives back
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What a weekend for live music across Colorado! And the Front Range usually picks up some good residual vibrations when artists stick around after mountain festivals like the Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience. A few of the players will be playing around town this week, including Takuya Kuroda in Boulder tonight at the Fox Theatre, Tuesday at Cervantes’ Other Side, and at Fort Collins Old Town Square on July 3. Traveling like the young 26-year-old he is, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram played Aspen on Saturday, then hopped over to play the Blues from the Top festival in Winter Park on Sunday.
Mountain festivals coming up include the Telluride Jazz Festival in August and the Vail Jazz Party over Labor Day weekend. Stay current with the listings at KUVO.org under the News and Events tab. (SOURCE: KUVO.org/events)
Tracking all the new developments in jazz programming, New York City’s Jazz at Lincoln Center is experimenting with a “Pay-What-You-Choose” concert in mid-July, starting at $20.00. It’s a curated set list for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra called “Reflections on Africa,” with Africa-themed works by Randy Weston, Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Horace Parlan, and others.
Icelandic – Chinese singer-songwriter Laufey (“lay-vay”) just announced her first Red Rocks show for this coming October 8. Already a Grammy winner, she has become world’s top streaming jazz artist, with 23 million followers across all her social media accounts.
Laufey chalks up all this success to a very supportive environment from her mentors, her work with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, and a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music. Now she’s paying it forward with The Laufey Foundation, which is receiving a dollar from every ticket sold on her “A Matter of Time” tour, as well as proceeds from her stuffed rabbit merchandise. The foundation gives grants and top-quality instruments and music gear to youth music programs across all demographics around the world. (SOURCE: The Laufey Foundation)
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