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Ford Detroit International Jazz Festival,
formerly Montreux-Detroit, will again be Southeastern Michigan’s
biggest jazz event of the year. It all takes place on Hart Plaza in downtown
Detroit on Labor Day weekend. This year’s festival has a number of
exciting artists, as can be seen in the complete schedule
below. This includes several nationally known acts and many of the best
musicians who have chosen to live around Detroit.
The headliners include two Detroiters who have gone
on to international renown from their new homes in New York: Tommy
Flanagan and James Carter. Flanagan is generally considered
the world’s foremost living exponent of bebop piano jazz and has
been a musician’s musician since he arrived in the Big Apple in 1956.
He has played with everybody in jazz, including Charlie Parker and Ella
Fitzgerald. His trio is a marvel of sophisticated swing and should not
be missed when it performs at 10 pm on August 31st.
James Carter has been one of the hottest young saxophonists
in jazz since he toured with Wynton Marsalis in 1985 (he is a more adventurous
player than Marsalis). Carter will appear at the festival to showcase
two of his most recent projects: a band building on the legacy of Django
Reinhardt (Chasin’ the Gypsy, at 8:45 pm on September 1st) and his
Electric Project with a more contemporary sound (6:30 pm on Labor Day).
Carter masters a number of jazz traditions and with more gusto than anyone.
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Friday,
August 31
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PYRAMID |
WATERFRONT |
JEFFERSON AVE |
3:00
CMU WAILS Saxophone Orchestra |
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3:00
Jackson Middle School
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4:00
Louis Smith Quartet
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4:00
Wayne State Lab 1
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4:00
Schoolcraft College
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4:15
Chesaning High
School
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5:30
315 All Stars
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5:15
The Brothers Groove
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5:15
Faruq Z Bey & Speaking in Tongues
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5:30
SEMJA CLINIC w/ Ernie Rodgers & Student Jam Session
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6:45
Benny Green
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6:45
Barbara Ware & Matt Michaels Trio
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6:45
Brad Felt Quartet
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7:30
Hot Sauce
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8:00
Christian McBride
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8:30
Brubeck Brothers Quartet
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9:00
Russell Malone
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9:00
Hughey & The Killer Joe
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10:30
Jazz Crusaders w/ Wilton Felder & Wayne Henderson
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10:00
Tommy Flanagan
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11:00
Marlena Shaw
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10:30
Charles Boles & The Exploration Unit
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Saturday, September
1
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PYRAMID |
WATERFRONT |
JEFFERSON AVE |
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12:00
Romulus Sr. High School
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12:00
Hastings High School
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12:00
Northview High School Jazz Ensemble
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12:00
Jackson High School
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1:15
DSO Civic Jazz Orchestra
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1:15
CMU Jazz Ensemble
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1:15
Livonia Churchill Jazz Combo
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1:15
U of M Jazz Ensemble
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2:30
Rich K Brazil & Beyond
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2:30
IAJE Reading Band
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2:30
Hurm Sanford
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2:30
SEMJA CLINIC w/ Teddy Harris and Student Jam Session
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5:30
Thornetta Davis
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4:00
Taslima Bey Quartet
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4:00
Larry Nozero Quintet
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4:30
Northview Jazz Combo
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7:00
Kevin Mahogany
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5:30
Kathy Kosins
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5:30
Naima Shambourguer
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6:00
James Dapogny
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8:45
James Carter's Chasin' The Gypsy Band
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8:00
Hilton Ruiz w/ special guest Antonio Hart
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7:30
Toshiko Akiyoshi/ Lew Tabackin Quartet
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7:30
The Patrick Prouty Trio
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10:30
Jimmy Smith
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9:45
Michael Ray & The Cosmic Krewe
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9:15
Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band
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9:30
Mark Moultrup Group
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Sunday, September
2
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PYRAMID |
WATERFRONT |
JEFFERSON AVE |
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12:00
Edsel Ford Jazz Ensemble
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12:00
Stevenson High School
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12:00
O L Smith Dearborn Middle School Combo
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12:00
Kennedy Middle School
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1:15
Henry Ford Jazz Band
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1:15
Monroe Jefferson High School
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1:15
Northview Big Band
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1:15
Forest Hills Northern Combo
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2:30
Miquel Guitterez
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2:30
Paul Abler
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2:30
Herrold/Gordon Small Band
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2:30
SEMJA CLINIC w/ Alma Smith and Student Jam Session
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4:00
Oddessa Harris Group w/ R J Spangler
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4:00
Summers, Delaney & Sharp
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4:30
Anchor Bay High School
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5:30
Classique presents Deblon Jackson & Friends
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5:30
Gerard Gibbs & ORGANized Crime
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5:30
Dwight Adams
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6:00
Oberlin College
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7:00
Nnenna Freelon
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7:30
New York Voices
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7:30
Conwell Carrington
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8:45
Richard Bona
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8:00
Monty Alexander
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9:00
Charles Greene Group
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10:30
Herbie Mann & Dave Valentin
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9:45
Andy Narell
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9:15
Wallace Roney Quintet w/ special guest Bennie Maupin
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10:30
George Davidson Quartet
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Monday,
September 3
| AMPHITHEATRE |
PYRAMID |
WATERFRONT |
JEFFERSON AVE |
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12:00
Northville Jazz Ensemble
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12:00
Focus HOPE presents Jazz For A New Generation
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12:00
Farmington Harrison Jazz Ensemble
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12:00
Rochester West Middle School
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1:15
Janice Franco's Amoroso feat. Larry Fratangelo & Robert Tye
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1:15
Ramona Collins
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1:15
Sheila Landis
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1:15
Warren Cousino
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2:45
Donald Walden
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3:30
Larry Smith & Company
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3:00
National Jazz Orchestra of Detroit (Tribute to Harold McKinney)
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2:30
SEMJA CLINIC w/ Jack Pierson and Student Jam Session
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4:15
Claude "Fiddler" Williams
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5:00
Spencer Barefield Quartet w/ David McMurray & David Young
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5:00
Jane Bunnett & Spirits of Havana
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4:30
Southfield Lathrup Combo
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6:00
Jane Monheit
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6:30
James Carter Electric Project
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6:45
Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers
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5:45
Prime Vocal Jazz
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7:45
Marcus Belgrave & the Detroit All Stars Tribute to Louis Armstrong
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8:15
Sun Ra Arkestra directed of Marshall Allen
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7:15
James Wendell Robinson Jazz Ensemble
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