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Dianne Reeves Chris Botti Thursday, June 22 7:30 p.m. | Connor Palace
DIANNE REEVES is the world’s pre-eminent jazz vocalist. As a result of her virtuosity, improvisational prowess, and unique jazz and R&B stylings, Reeves received the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance for three consecutive recordings — a Grammy first in any vocal category. All told, she has won five Best Vocal Jazz Performance Grammys.
DIANNE REEVES
Reeves has recorded and performed with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. She has also recorded with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim and was a featured soloist with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. Trumpeter CHRIS BOTTI lays claim to the title of world’s largest selling jazz instrumentalist. Add to that a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Album and four No. 1 albums on Billboard’s Jazz Albums listings. His latest album, Impressions, features guest appearances by Mark Knopfler, Herbie Hancock, Andrea Bocelli, Brazilian guitarist Leonardo Amuedo and more. His busy tour schedule keeps him on the road up to 300 days a year.
CHRIS BOTTI
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Terence Blanchard’s Blue Note Sessions featuring
Kenny Barron and Ravi Coltrane
KENNY BARRON
(Music from The Comedian) Friday, June 23 6 p.m. | Ohio Theatre
TERENCE BLANCHARD
For his film The Comedian, director Taylor Hackford tapped multi‑Grammy-winning trumpeter and film score master TERENCE BLANCHARD to compose and perform music that evoked the Blue Note sound. Now, Blanchard has re-arranged music from the film to perform a rare and special evening of straight-ahead jazz with his friends and heroes KENNY BARRON, RAVI COLTRANE, Carl Allen and Dave Pulphus. Blanchard has scored more than 40 films, best known for his work with director Spike Lee.
RAVI COLTRANE
Boney James Norman Brown Friday, June 23 | 8 p.m. | Connor Palace Four-time Grammy nominee and multi-platinum-selling saxophonist BONEY JAMES continues his artistic evolution with the dynamic futuresoul. Fusing his love for vintage soul music with his mastery of modern production, James has created another genre-bending work following on the heels of his 2014 Grammy-nominated album The Beat. James has sold more than 3 million records and has earned four RIAA gold albums, a Soul Train Award, nominations for two NAACP Image Awards and 10 CD’s atop the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. In 2009 Billboard named him the No. 3 Contemporary Jazz Artist of The Decade.
BONEY JAMES
Grammy award winner NORMAN BROWN is on close terms with his audience. For almost two decades, it has been an engaging, mutually rewarding relationship, with the multitalented guitarist, composer and singer offering tasty sonic tidbits of classic R&B and contemporary jazz and his fans savoring every succulent, jazz inflected note.
NORMAN BROWN
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Jane Bunnett & Maqueque Alicia Olatuja Saturday, June 24 | 1 p.m. | Allen Theatre Multiple Juno Award-winner JANE BUNNETT has turned her bands and recordings into showcases for the finest musical talent from Canada, the United States and Cuba. She has been nominated for Grammy Awards and has received an Order of Canada, The Queens Diamond Jubilee medal and, most recently, the Ontario Premier’s Award for Excellence. An internationally acclaimed musician, Bunnett is known for her creative integrity, improvisational daring and courageous artistry. She has toured the world, bringing her own special sound to many jazz festivals, displaying her versatility as a saxophone player and pianist.
JANE BUNNETT & MAQUEQUE
Praised by the New York Times as “a singer with a strong and luscious tone and an amiably regal presence on stage,” ALICIA OLATUJA has been astounding audiences with her exquisite vocals, artistic versatility and captivating demeanor. Olatuja first came to the national spotlight in 2013, while performing as the featured soloist with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration. Shortly thereafter, she assembled her own jazz ensemble and recorded her first solo album, Timeless (2014).
ALICIA OLATUJA
Olatuja’s own band has performed at the Jazz Standard, Vermont Jazz Center, Sioux Falls JazzFest, Rockport Jazz Festival, Markham Jazz Festival, Monty Alexander Jazz Fest and the Harlem Stage Gatehouse, to name a few.
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Diego Figueiredo Anat Cohen Choro Ensemble Saturday, June 24 | 3:30 p.m. | Ohio Theatre DIEGO FIGUEIREDO is considered one of the most talented guitar players in the world today. He is the winner of several important competitions including the Montreux Jazz Competition and the VISA Prize. Figueiredo has released more than 19 albums. His music fuses jazz, bossa nova and classical. In addition to playing guitar, he is a producer, arranger, orchestrator and multi-instrumentalist who has performed in more than 40 countries. Both onstage and on recordings, the music of clarinetist and saxophonist ANAT COHEN positively glows – with virtuosity, with charisma, with the sheer joy of creation. A true citizen of the world, Cohen speaks a universal language through her horn.
DIEGO FIGUEIREDO ANAT COHEN
Her fluency in the jazz tradition is utterly at one with her flair for Brazilian music in her Choro Aventuroso program, which features Latin-infused original jazz compositions along with inspired interpretations of tunes from the rich musical traditions of Brazil.
Kamasi Washington Saturday, June 24 | 6 p.m. | Allen Theatre At the age of 13, KAMASI WASHINGTON started a lifelong quest to discover the many wonders of music. Over the years, he has performed and recorded with many of his musical heroes from various genres: Gerald Wilson, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Burrell, George Duke, Lauryn Hill, Jeffrey Osborne, Mos Def, Quincy Jones, Stanley Clarke, Harvey Mason and Chaka Khan, among others. He most recently worked on Kendrick Lamar’s acclaimed 2015 album To Pimp A Butterfly. Washington and his own band, The Next Step, offer a modern spin on a big band that includes two drummers, two upright bass players, keyboard players, three horns, a pianist and a vocalist. His triple-disc, groundbreaking solo album, The Epic, features The Next Step along with a full string orchestra and full choir.
KAMASI WASHINGTON
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Boz Scaggs Catherine Russell Saturday, June 24 8 p.m. Connor Palace Fans who have followed BOZ SCAGGS’ remarkable career will recall the ‘60s when he BOZ SCAGGS performed with the Steve Miller Band, his solo triumphs with such classic albums as Silk Degrees (1976) and Middle Man (1980) and the splendid assurance of late-period high points like Some Change (1994) and Dig (2001). Scaggs has a deft touch as a singer. His soul is effortless and deeply felt, never making a show of itself, but unmistakably evident in every lyric he delivers. His latest album is A Fool to Care. “I’m at a point where I’m having a lot of fun with music, more than ever,” he said. “It’s like I’m just going wherever I want to go with it.”
CATHERINE RUSSELL is a one-of-akind musician and vocalist. Her voice is full blown femininity incarnate — a dusky, stalwart and soulful instrument that radiates power yet remains touchingly vulnerable. She has toured the world, performing and recording with David Bowie, Steely Dan, Cyndi Lauper, Jackson Browne, Michael Feinstein, Levon Helm, Paul Simon, Rosanne Cash, Carrie Smith and many others.
CATHERINE RUSSELL JOSÉ JAMES
Since the 2006 release of her debut album, Cat, five acclaimed and charttopping albums have followed. In 2012, Russell won a Grammy for her appearance as a featured artist on the soundtrack album for the HBO TV series Boardwalk Empire.
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TERENCE BLANCHARD’S E-COLLECTIVE
Terence Blanchard featuring the E-Collective Saturday, June 24 10:15 p.m. Allen Theatre TERENCE BLANCHARD featuring the E-COLLECTIVE is in its second phase of grooved fusion teeming with funk, R&B and blues. Blanchard, Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland’s artist in residence, has recorded more than 30 critically acclaimed albums, including several stellar outings with saxophonist Donald Harrison. His new recording, Caravan, is a sequel to Breathless and was recorded live in Cleveland, Minneapolis and Dallas. A multiple Grammy-winner, Blanchard has traveled many musical paths, delivering adventurous and original material, composing more than 50 film soundtracks and, in 2013, debuting Champion: An Opera in Jazz, commissioned by St. Louis Opera. A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina) won a Grammy in 2008 in the category of Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album.
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