This summer’s Caramoor International Music Festival will feature two consecutive Saturdays of jazz in Katonah, N.Y., just outside of NYC. The 14th annual festival will be held on July 28 and Aug. 4, and features an emphasis on Latin jazz as part of Caramoor’s Latin American Music Initiative, Sonidos Latinos. The two all-day concerts will be held in the outdoor Venetian Theater on the grounds of the Caramoor Estate, with hourly sets from 3 to 6:30 p.m., followed by a break for dinner, and sets again at 8 and 9 p.m.
Among the performers is Eddie Palmieri, the legend of salsa and Latin jazz and the winner of nine Grammy Awards, including the inaugural Best Latin Album in 1975 for The Sun of Latin Music. Puerto Rico-born tenor saxophonist David Sanchez will play with his quartet, kicking off the first day of the festival with their Latin and Afro-Caribbean sounds. The Caramoor’s Artistic Director of Jazz, Joe Lovano (pictured), will also perform twice as a special guest. See below for a full schedule of events.
Tickets for each all-day program cost $35 or $50, and can be ordered online or through the Caramoor Box Office at 914-232-1252.
Saturday, July 28
3 p.m. David Sanchez Quartet
4 p.m. Geri Allen Trio
5 p.m. Steve Turre Quintet
8 p.m. Weber Iago & Jovino Santos Neto: Piano Summit
9 p.m. Eddie Palmieri Afro-Caribbean Jazz Septet
Saturday, Aug. 4
3 p.m. Arturo O’Farrill Trio (Sonidos Latinos)
4 p.m. Fred Hersch, solo piano
5 p.m. Odean Pope Saxophone Choir w/ special guest Joe Lovano
8 p.m. Brad Mehldau Trio
9 p.m. Joe Lovano/Paquito D’Rivera Festival Ensemble (Sonidos Latinos)
Related Posts
Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee: Backwater Blues
Start Your Free Trial to Continue Reading
Become a JazzTimes member to explore our complete archive of interviews, profiles, columns, and reviews written by music’s best journalists and critics.
Jonathan Butler: The Simple Life
Jonathan Butler’s optimistic music belies a dirt-poor childhood growing up in a South Africa segregated by apartheid. Live in South Africa, a new CD and DVD package, presents a sense of the resulting inner turmoil, mixed with dogged resolve, that paved the way to his status as an icon in his country and successful musician outside of it. Looking back, the 46-year-old Butler says today, the driving forces that led to his overcoming apartheid-the formal policy of racial separation and economic discrimination finally dismantled in 1993-were family, faith and abundant talent.
“When we were kids, our parents never talked about the ANC [African National Congress] or Nelson Mandela,” he says. Butler was raised as the youngest child in a large family. They lived in a house patched together by corrugated tin and cardboard, in the “coloreds only” township of Athlone near Cape Town. “They never talked about struggles so we never knew what was happening.”
Start Your Free Trial to Continue Reading
Become a JazzTimes member to explore our complete archive of interviews, profiles, columns, and reviews written by music’s best journalists and critics.
Harry Connick, Jr.: Direct Hits
Two decades after his commercial breakthrough, Harry Connick Jr. taps legendary producer Clive Davis for an album of crooner roots and beloved tunes
Scott LaFaro
Previously unavailable recordings and a new bio illuminate the legend of bassist Scott LaFaro