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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.
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]
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.
Allen at Detroit Jazz Fest in 2009 Geri Antoinette Allen (June 12, 1957 – June 27, 2017) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. She taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Pittsburgh .
Barry Harris, Detroit International Jazz Festival Barry Doyle Harris (December 15, 1929 – December 8, 2021) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. He was an exponent of the bebop style.
Barbara Jean Spillman (May 12, 1927 – October 20, 2024), known professionally as Barbara Dane, was an American folk, blues, and jazz singer, guitarist, record producer, and political activist. She co-founded Paredon Records with Irwin Silber. "Bessie Smith in stereo," wrote jazz critic Leonard Feather of Dane in the late 1950s.
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).