Tag: Jazz

Join Djangophonique and special TBA guests for the third annual Ann Arbor Django Reinhardt festival as we celebrate the legacy of his music as it evolves.

This show features students and faculty from the Department of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation at the U-M, along with a prominent special guest each year. This year’s special guest is pianist Kenny Barron. Honored by The National Endowment for the Arts as a 2010 Jazz Master, Kenny Barron has an unmatched ability to mesmerize audiences with his elegant playing, sensitive melodies and infectious rhythms.

Kat Edmonson is a Songwriters Hall of Fame award-winner. She has been featured on Austin City Limits, Tiny Desk Concerts, A Prairie Home Companion, and The Tonight Show and has released six studio albums to date. Raised on the music and film of the early-to mid-twentieth century, Kat performs original songs and familiar classics in her live show interweaving humorous anecdotes and philosophical musings with disarming candor and vulnerability. “Hearing Edmonson makes it virtually impossible to do anything but stop and listen.” (NPR)

The members of Harmonious Wail are purveyors of Americana-infused Gypsy Jazz who continue to take their listeners on a ride via the music of the Hot Club sounds of Parisian cafes to the deepest blues of the Memphis Delta to the heartfelt folk scenes across every-town-America.

Presented by A2 Jazz Fest Joshua Redman is one of the most acclaimed and respected jazz artists to have emerged in our generation. His latest project, Where Are We, marks the first time that Joshua has included a vocalist (Gabrielle Cavassa) on a record, and features Aaron Parks on piano, Joe Sanders on bass, and Brian Blade on drums.