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Copenhagen Jazz Festival is a jazz event every July in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Copenhagen Jazz Festival was established in 1979, but beginning in 1964 Tivoli Gardens presented a series of concerts under the name Copenhagen Jazz Festival with Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and many others.
Muddy Waters was married to his first wife, Mabel Berry, from 1932 to 1935. [56] Muddy Waters' second wife, whom he married in the 1940s, Geneva Wade, died of cancer on March 15, 1973. Gaining custody of three of his children, Joseph, Renee, and Rosalind, he moved them into his home, eventually buying a new house in Westmont, Illinois.
The American Folk Blues Festival was a music festival that toured Europe as an annual event for several years beginning in 1962. It introduced audiences in Europe, including the UK, to leading blues performers of the day such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson, most of whom had never previously performed outside the US.
With most festival-goers a little sauced, this festival can’t help but become a relaxed and friendly social event that just happens to have 100 or so artists performing over its four-day stretch.
At Newport 1960 is a live album by Muddy Waters recorded during his performance at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 3, 1960. With his longtime backup band, Muddy Waters plays a mix of his older popular tunes and some newer compositions. Chess Records released the album in the United States on November 15, 1960.
March 3 – Eleanor Collins, 104, Canadian jazz singer and TV host [33] April 5 – Phil Nimmons, Canadian jazz clarinetist, 100 [34] April 7 – Joe Viera, German saxophonist and festival founder, 91 [35] May 7 – Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Polish jazz musician, composer and arranger, 88 [36] June 9 – Alex Riel, Danish jazz and rock drummer ...
Each day of the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival provides a bounty of choices for music lovers. Here are some options. Rochester Jazz Festival lineup for Sunday, June 23: 3 shows to check out
This 3 day jazz festival in Bix Beiderbecke's hometown of Davenport, IA began when a group of East Coast musicians came to Davenport to pay homage to Bix by playing over his grave. The jam session at a local hotel afterwards was so hugely popular that the idea to hold it annually was born.