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