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Detroit
Jazz
Festival
Announces
Headlining
Acts for
Labor
Day
Weekend
Performances
Legendary
free
jazz
festival
set to
impress
this
Labor
Day
weekend
DETROIT,
MI - The
Detroit
Jazz
Festival
announced
its 2014
Artist
in
Residence
and
world-class
group of
headlining
acts for
the 35th
annual
Labor
Day
Weekend
performances.
The
Festival
will
stay
true to
its
roots of
delivering
a
diverse
lineup,
featuring
up-and-coming
acts as
well as
jazz
legends,
from
both
Detroit
and
around
the
world.
Joshua
Redman,
2014
Artist
in
Residence,
is one
of the
many
artists
that has
a great
story to
tell.
Redman
is known
as one
of the
most
acclaimed
and
charismatic
jazz
artists
to have
emerged
in the
1990s
and has
toured
with
jazz
masters
such as
Jack
DeJohnette,
Joe
Lovano,
Pat
Metheny
and
Clark
Terry.
He,
along
with
other
world-renowned
artists,
including
an
impressive
group of
bassists,
will
take to
four
stages –
JP
Morgan
Chase
Main
Stage,
Carhartt
Amphitheatre
Stage,
Mack
Avenue
Records
Waterfront
Stage
and
Absopure
Pyramid
Stage –
over the
course
of Labor
Day
weekend.
A
sampling
of the
2014
headlining
acts
includes:
• 2014
Artist
in
Residence,
Joshua
Redman
•
Pharoah
Sanders
Quartet
• Ron
Carter
and
Peter
Bernstein,
tribute
to Jim
Hall
•
“Straighten
Up and
Fly
Right” –
The Nat
King
Cole
Tribute
Featuring
Ramsey
Lewis
and John
Pizzarelli
• Al
Foster
Quartet
•
Christian
McBride
Trio
•
Stanley
Clarke
– School
Days
• Dave
Holland,
Prism
Featuring
Kevin
Eubanks.
Eric
Harland,
Craig
Taborn
•
Diane
Schuur
with
Alan
Broadbent
• Lou
Donaldson
Organ
Quartet
• Mack
Avenue
SuperBand
•
Marcus
Belgrave
and a
tribute
to the
legacy
of Louis
Armstrong
• Mike
Stern
Band
•
Nicholas
Payton,
Sketches
of Miles
and Gil
• Sean
Jones
Quartet
• The
Airmen
of Note
• A
Night at
the
Apollo
Theatre
featuring
Ted
Louis
Levy,
Margot
B, Kevin
Mahogany,
the
David
Berger’s
New York
City
Jazz
Orchestra
and
special
guests
• Tom
Harrell’s
Colors
of a
Dream
with
Esperanza
Spalding
To see
the full
lineup,
visit
http://detroitjazzfest.com/2014lineup.html
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