Jazz Festival

....reveals the truth.

As I mentioned earlier, Bill Dixon will make two appearances in Chicago this year, the latter of which it is now prudent to mention since it is public information:

He will appear as part of the Chicago Jazz Festival as a guest artist with Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra.

That should be an interesting one, to say the least.

Other artists of interest for the festival: Charlie Haden will be the artist in residence, performing with his Liberation Music Orchestra, with a band of local musicians, and with a band of student musicians. The Mingus Big Band will perform as well. Sadly, Andrew Hill was scheduled to perform. No word as to whether they will try and do a tribute to him or who will fill that cavernous void in the schedule.

There will also be a tribute to Dizzy Gillespie featuring Jon Faddis, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, James Moody, Giovanni Hidalgo and Ignacio Berroa that will most likely produce some smoldering latin jazz.

To follow up on my earlier post about Ornette's Pulitzer, there was some fruitful discussion both in that post and also at Night After Night, including a link to this discussion at the Organissimo forums, and some astute comments from DJA.

More later....