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Southeastern Michigan Jazz Association Ann Arbor, Michigan SEMJA UPDATE is published monthly. It is edited by Lars Björn and Piotr Michalowski with additional assistance from Barton Polot (production editor and Webmaster), Judy Alcock, Margot Campos, Lynn Hobbs, and Marcel Niemiec. CONTACT: update@semja.org

Edgefest Mix

BY LARS BJORN

The 15th annual Edgefest at the Kerrytown Concert House mixed the avant garde/improvised music of the jazz and classical traditions for five days. As always, we were treated to a world-class festival of its kind. A new kick-off point was a free concert at Encore Records with the Tamarindo Trio on Tuesday October 18. Even though there was standing room only, the venerable record store provided an excellent listening space and an encore is likely at Encore. At the Concert House, I was particularly impressed with the violin-piano duo of Mark Feldman and Sylvie Courvoisier, Lucian Ban and John Hebert’s Enesco project, James Cornish’s short opera with Philip Levine poems sung by Deanna Relyea, and the always exuberant parade through Kerrytown market.

TOP: The Edgefest Parade pausing at Kerrytown Market
ABOVE: From left: Matt Maneri, Ralph Alessi, Andrew Bishop (co-leader Lucian Ban is hidden behind Maneri)
BELOW: Tom Rainey, Tony Malaby, and William Parker (from back) at Encore

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