Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Sun Valley Jazz Jamboree has plenty of highlights

New and old-favorite entertainers to play through the week Highlights


By SABINA DANA PLASSE
Express Staff Writer

Courtesy photo Midnight Serenaders will debut at the 2010 Sun Valley Jazz Jamboree.

Don't lose sleep with the Midnight Serenaders

The Sun Valley Jazz Jamboree welcomes the Midnight Serenaders for their debut performance at the festival. The band is part of a new wave of neo-traditional jazz sweeping the West Coast. The six-piece swing band plays to Pacific Northwest audiences on a regular basis.

The band performs vintage pop, hot jazz and Hawaiian instrumentals. In addition, the Midnight Serenaders have original songs. The six-member band strives to share their passion for music from the 1920s, '30s and '40s.

Take a trip to New Orleans with Louis Ford and His New Orleans Flairs

Louis Ford and His New Orleans Flairs will play throughout the festival weekend. Ford has dedicated himself to the revival of New Orleans music and is a second-generation musician. Ford is an accomplished clarinetist and saxophonist. He has studied with Professor Kidd Jordan of Southern University in music performance and graduated from Loyola University with a degree in music education, which he has built on to create his own sound. With the New Orleans Flairs, Ford and the band will play everything from Big Band 1930s and '40s music to Motown classics of the 1950s and '60s. These musicians are distinguished members of the New Orleans music community and are dedicated to the preservation of jazz.

Tom Rigney and Flambeau return

Fiddle player Tom Rigney and his band, Flambeau, are veteran musicians, with guitarist Danny Caron, accordionist and pianist Caroline Dahl, drummer Jimmy Sanchez and bassist Steve Parks. The band is known for its fiery Cajun and zydeco two-steps, low-down blues and funky New Orleans grooves, as well as lyrical ballads and waltzes. Rigney composes most of the music, but audiences will hear classics from the Cajun/zydeco/New Orleans songbook as well as Irish roots music and swing.

The ivories never sounded so good at Pianorama

A special festival highlight at the Sun Valley Jazz Jamboree is the tradition of Pianorama, which presents the talented piano players of many of the festival's bands in a special showcase.

Pianorama is the brainchild of Joe Fos, whose trio is a regular feature throughout the year at the Sun Valley Lodge's Duchin Room. Pianorama will take place Friday, Oct. 15, at the Sun Valley Lodge Dining Room and Saturday, Oct. 16, in the Sun Valley Lodge Sun Room. Pianorama performances will take place from 12:30-5 p.m. on Friday and 12:30-3:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Each day there will be a half hour of piano playing each from festival musicians including Paul Tillotson of the Paul Tillotson Trio, Paul Reid of Cornet Chop Suey, Yve Evans of Yve Evans and Company and several other pianists from festival bands.

Pianorama is an opportunity to hear some of the most well-known jazz tunes in a more personal venue. Pianists will improvise their favorite songs, taking them in new directions.

Sabina Dana Plasse: splasse@mtexpress.com




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