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The festival again changed names in 2005, becoming the Detroit International Jazz Festival after Ford Motor Company removed its sponsorship. In January 2006 Gretchen Valade, Chairman of Mack Avenue Records founded the Detroit International Jazz Festival Foundation, which took over production and management of the festival. [ 1 ]
This group recorded in 1986 and continued performing regularly until his death. [3] Heard died of a heart attack at the age of 71 in Royal Oak, Michigan. [3] His legacy is honored with the yearly J.C. Heard JazzWeek@Wayne, held on the campus of Wayne State University, as part of the Detroit Jazz Festival. [6]
Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival is a collaborative live album by Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, and Leo Genovese. [3] Candid released the album on 9 September 2022. [4] It is also the final recording for Shorter prior to his death in 2023.
Mosley, who murdered Back, was sentenced to life in prison. Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time of his sentence. Donna Roberts: Had her ex-husband killed in order to collect his life insurance. 21 years, 248 days [82] Roberts is the only female death row inmate in Ohio. William Kessler Sapp
Lateef performing in 2007 at the Detroit Jazz Festival. His 1987 album Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Recording [13] [7] His core influences, however, were clearly rooted in jazz, and in his own words: "My music is jazz." [14] In 1992, Lateef founded YAL Records.
Mack Avenue was founded in 1999 by Gretchen Carhartt Valade, a jazz fan and chair of the American apparel company Carhartt. The company is a sponsor of the Detroit Jazz Festival, to which Gretchen Valade donated $15 million in 2006. [1] Early Mack recording artists included Terry Gibbs, Oscar Castro-Neves, and George Shearing.
He has presented master classes at such institutions as Duke University, Howard University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, the New School (NY), Lincoln Center, and the Detroit International Jazz Festival, and at the conferences of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE).
John Paul "Bucky" Pizzarelli (January 9, 1926 – April 1, 2020) [1] was an American jazz guitarist. He was the father of jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli and double bassist Martin Pizzarelli . He worked for NBC as a staffman for Dick Cavett (1971) and ABC with Bobby Rosengarden in (1952).