JALC Hosts Women in Jazz Festival

Mmmm pop and jazz… To celebrate this quintessential combination, Diet Coke and Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) have teamed together to create the inaugural Diet Coke Women in Jazz Festival from Sept. 6 through Oct. 2. The festival, which will be held at JALC’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, is billed as “a celebration of the great contributions women performers have made to jazz music.”

The Women in Jazz Festival is part of JALC’s 2005-2006 programming season, “Jazz from Coast to Coast,” and will feature nightly performances by established and up-and-coming female jazz artists. Coca-Cola (the company, not the club) will underwrite tickets for the International Association for Jazz Educators’ “Sisters in Jazz” Upstarts! Nightly performance on Sept. 26 for distribution to local high school music students.

The festival schedule is as follows:

Sept. 6 – 11

Angela Bofill
Sept. 12

Upstarts! – Tia Fuller Quintet / Stephanie Nakasian with Hod O’Brien Trio featuring 11 year old Veronica Swift O’Brien
Sept. 13

Marian McPartland – special solo piano concerts
Sept. 14, 15

Rita Coolidge
Sept. 16, 17

Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio with special guests
Sept. 18

Tessa Souter / Cynthia Scott
Sept. 19

Upstarts! – IAJE Sisters in Jazz
Sept. 20, 21

Claudia Acuna Quartet
Sept. 22

Basie, Blues & Beyond: Karrin Allyson (pictured), Nancy King & Friends
Sept. 23, 24

Sherrie Maricle and DIVA Jazz Orchestra with Ann Hampton Callaway and other special guests
Sept. 25

Lynne Arriale Trio with special guests
Sept. 26

Upstarts! – Terri Lyne Carrington with special student guests
Sept. 27

Helen Merrill Quartet
Sept. 28

Hiromi / Jane Ira Bloom
Sept. 29

Joanne Brackeen / Bertha Hope and Jazzberry Jam Band
Sept. 30, Oct. 1

Barbara Carroll Trio with special guests
Oct. 2

Nnenna Freelon and Friends

Originally Published June 24, 2005