Healdsburg Jazz Festival Presents ....

JACKSON THEATER

4400 Day School Place

Santa Rosa

Healdsburg Jazz Festival Presents "Jazz And The Music Of The Americas"

Published: 2015-05-11

HEALDSBURG, CALIF. As the 17th annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival prepares for launch, starting on May 29 and running for 10 day to June 7, a strong point of cultural focus and excitement is a special two-day program, “Jazz and the Music of the Americas,” made possible by a generous grant from the NEA. In the heart of the scenic and savory Sonoma wine country, festival goers will have the opportunity to take in some of the prominent voices at the long-rooted juncture of jazz and Latin America music, on two successive weekend nights at the Jackson Theater, 4400 Day School Place, Santa Rosa.

Saturday, May 30 focuses on the music of Brazil, with legendary vocalist Luciana Souza in a duo with Brazilian guitarist Romero Lumbabo, plus the veteran group Trio da Paz with special guest, the eminent pianist Kenny Barron. The two Brazilian-centered collaborative groups epitomize the happy and ongoing artistic marriage of jazz and musical things Brazilian.

Brazil’s contributions to and collaborations with jazz has a special rhythmic emphasis, as bossa nova and samba blend freely and richly within the language of jazz. Brazilian music’s harmonic sophistication and its endemic sense of “swing” makes for an easy rapport with the vocabularies of jazz.

On Sunday, May 31, the scene shifts to Argentina and the Caribbean, the first region featuring reigning Argentine “nuevo tango” master Pablo Ziegler, a commanding pianist-composer and bandleader, and a right-hand musical ally of the late Astor Piazzolla for a decade. Ziegler has been the acknowledged heir to Piazzolla’s legacy, and has become a formidable jazz-tango artist in his own right.


The program concludes with a hot set of Caribbean-flavored arrangements from pioneer Eddie Palmieri, fronting his own Latin Jazz Septet. Palmieri, from Spanish Harlem with deep Puerto Rican roots, fully qualifies as an important “living legend” of Latin Jazz—and one who continues to disseminate musical energy and vision. Palmieri’s natural hybridizing musical work reaches back to his N.Y.C. band La Perfecta from a half century ago.

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