Fest Jazz Is Unique … and yet Needs Help! Here’s Why!

The cry to attract youngsters back to jazz resonates ever louder. Jazz fans, it’s happening, as is evident from many features posted here on Jazz&Jazz. Not more so than at a jazz festival in the north-west of France launched back in 2005 by English jazz musician and band leader, Trevor Stent.

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“Bei Mir Bist Du Schön” (To Me You Are Beautiful) …

Tad Newton’s Jazzfriends captivate
Scene 2 fans at Fest Jazz 2018.

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Calling All Jazz Fans: Fest Jazz Needs Your Help! Here’s Why and How!

Help Save Fest Jazz

Pictureque Chateau Neuf du Foau overlooking Fest Jazz


“It was the only rainy weekend of the summer and it had to be during Fest Jazz!”

“For the festival it was a catastrophe. On the Sunday 29th July we had only 402 spectators who braved the appalling wind and rain whereas in 2017 (and previous years) we had around 1100.

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“Why do we do it?” by Paul Bacon

 

This oft repeated question was asked again by Paul Bacon, writing in the October, 2018, issue of Just Jazz Magazine. I won’t delve into the article – it’s for you to read and a well worthwhile read it is.

But it spurred me to re-feature this Jazz&Jazz post about Paul’s daughter Emily’s band,
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Olney Jazz Club Presents Jazz Colossus: 8.00pm Tuesday 2nd October

Tickets £10 in advance, £12 on the door

Olney Jazz Club
Carlton House Club, High St, Olney MK46 4BB
Tel: 01234 711348

Just a taster:

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Revisiting Joan Chamorro’s Young Sant Andreu Jazz Band Stars


I have followed and featured Joan Chamorro and Barcelona’s
Sant Andreu Jazz Band for several years. Avidly!

But it’s been a while since the last post and so I have to thank Francis Ketterer for posting this YouTube on my Facebook Jazzers Group.

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Follow Up to “It’s Time to Ring the Changes!”

“This online activity is good for us (and others) in many ways but it can take over, and we need to step back sometimes and ‘smell the roses’. Take care.” (Ian Maud).

 

This is the follow up to
Social Media or Jazz&Jazz? It’s Time to Ring the Changes!

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Social Media or Jazz&Jazz? It’s Time to Ring the Changes!


“This online activity is good for us (and others) in many ways but it can take over, and we need to step back sometimes and ‘smell the roses’. Take care.”

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“Basin Street to Harlem” Headed for Grimsby …

… with Tad Newton’s Jazzfriends  

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Ewan Bleach Plays Baritone Sax at Fest Jazz …


Ewan hails from the UK but is also a main man in New Orleans. Clarinetist, saxophonist, pianist and singer, he favours 1920s and 1930s jazz and blues.

Ewan, on Baritone Sax, with Frog & Henry

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