KENNY GARRETT PRESENTS
Featuring: Kenny Garrett Presents
Saxophonists who occupy the rank of legend include John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins… and Kenny Garrett. Opening night of the 2009 Atlantic Jazz Festival explodes with this international luminary.
July 10 8:00 PM
Jazz Festival Tent Series at Festival Tent
Bell Aliant
Festival Tent hosting JOE LOUIS WALKER with GARRETT MASON
JOE LOUIS WALKER with GARRETT MASON
Featuring: Joe Louis Walker
The Maritimes better be ready when the rambunctious blues singer and guitarist Joe Louis Walker hits the stage. As part of a non-stop high energy opening Jazz Fest weekend, Walker explores the styles of Delta and Chicago blues, Memphis soul, gospel and even rockabilly.
July 11 8:00 PM
Blues Festival Tent Series at Festival Tent
Festival Tent hosting JANE BUNNETT’S EMBRACING VOICES with ¡BOMBA!
JANE BUNNETT’S EMBRACING VOICES with ¡BOMBA!
Featuring: Jane Bunnett’s Embracing Voices
Jane Bunnett orchestrates an event, not just a concert. Expect enormous emissions of Cuban-jazz energy and rhythm with 13-member Haitian choir Grupo Vocal Desandann and some of Canada’s leading jazz musicians (including festival favourite David Virelles on piano).
July 12 8:00 PM
Latin jazz Festival Tent Series at Festival Tent
Halifax Magazine
Delta Halifax Baronet Ballroom hosting Félix Stüssi 5 featuring Ray Anderson
Félix Stüssi 5 featuring Ray Anderson
Featuring: Félix Stüssi 5 featuring Ray Anderson, Ray Anderson
Montréal-based pianist, composer and bandleader Félix Stüssi is unafraid of unusual mixes, such as confronting modernity with tradition. A concert that promises to be unlike anything you’ve seen before, Stüssi’s playfully percussive piano style and original compositions often shift between chaos and hard-bop soloing.
July 12 9:00 PM
Modern-jazz Delta Halifax Baronet Ballroom at Delta Halifax Baronet Ballroom
Festival Tent hosting JOHN ABERCROMBIE QUARTET with V16
JOHN ABERCROMBIE QUARTET with V16
Featuring: John Abercrombie
Still at the apex of an incredible career as one of the world’s most acclaimed jazz guitarists, Abercrombie makes a long awaited return to Halifax to deliver his ever evolving and boundary demolishing brand of jazz.
July 13 8:00 PM
Jazz Festival Tent Series at Festival Tent
Delta Halifax Baronet Ballroom hosting LUIS MARIO OCHOA featuring HILARIO DURAN
LUIS MARIO OCHOA featuring HILARIO DURAN
Featuring: Luis Mario Ochoa
In a beautiful room overlooking Halifax harbor, award winning classically trained guitarist and vocalist, Luis Mario Ochoa delivers an exquisite program of classic Latin styles – rumba, samba, waltz – in a mode that is constantly moving, genuine and engaging, and brings festival favourites Hilario Duran (piano) and Luisito Orbegoso (percussion) back to Halifax.
July 13 9:00 PM
Latin jazz Jazz at the Baronet Ballroom at Delta Halifax Baronet Ballroom
Halifax Magazine
Festival Tent hosting ALEX CONDE FLAMENCO JAZZ with MARIA OSENDE
ALEX CONDE FLAMENCO JAZZ with MARIA OSENDE
Featuring: Alex Conde Carrasco, Maria Osende
The roots of flamenco (Seguiriyas, Bulerias, Tangos and Rumbas) and the spirit of vanguard jazz are fused in the Alex Conde Flamenco Jazz project. With a flamenco guitar player from Minnesota, a singer-dancer from Spain, a bass player from Israel and a percussionist from Colombia, cultural fusion is alive and hot in Halifax at the festival’s outdoor stage.
July 14 8:00 PM