The Berkeley Jazz Festival

Infobox music festival
music_festival_name = The Berkeley Jazz Festival


caption =
image_size = 150
location = flagicon|USA Berkeley, California, USA
years_active = 1966 — Present
dates = July
genre = Jazz, Blues, Rock, R&B
website = [http://www.berkeleyjazzfestival.com/ www.BerkeleyJazzFestival.com]

The Berkeley Jazz Festival is held once a year at the outdoors Hearst Greek Theatre on the University of California, Berkeley campus. The theatre overlooks the San Francisco Bay at Hearst & Gayley Road. The festival is now being produced by "Bay Area Productions", and Gregg W. Perloff's "Another Planet Entertainment", and has no connection to the original UCB-student-run festival, founded in 1966 which ran for more than twenty years.) [ [http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2005-07-13/calendar/smooth-but-funky/full Ray Obiedo gives the reborn Berkeley Jazz festival a shot of East Bay urban funk] ] In addition, Another Planet is the exclusive promoter for the Greek Theatre, an 8,500 capacity outdoor amphitheatre. [ [http://www.apeconcerts.com/about.cfm Another Planet Entertainment] ]

In 2007, Harry Belafonte was recipient of the first ever Berkeley Jazz Festival Icon Award. [ [http://www.kblx.com/gallery/Berkeley-Jazz-Festival-7-28-07 Berkeley-Jazz-Festival-7-28-07] ]

Notable performers

1968

Miles Davis, Carmen McRae, Mike Stern, Eddie Gale, Modern Jazz Quartet, Gerald Wilson's Big Band, and Ike and Tina Turner (rainstorms forced the concert inside to the UC Berkeley's Harmon Gymnasium, which was packed with 8,000 fans) [Chambers, Jack. "Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis", Da Capo Press, page 102, 1998 - ISBN 0306808498]

1969

Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Herbie Hancock Sextet, Tony Williams, Zutty Singleton, Roy Haynes, Albert King, Ed Hawkins Singers, Archie Shepp, King Errison. [ New York Times, May 11, 1969]

1975

Cannonball Adderley and Nat Adderley [Sidran, Ben. "Black Talk", Da Capo Press, page 65, 1983 - ISBN 0306801841]

1976

Charles Mingus

1979

Joni Mitchell, Jaco Pastorius, Don Alias, Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams

1980

John McLaughlin and Christian Escoudé

"Another Planet Entertainment:"

2005

Rachelle Ferrell, Lalah Hathaway, Unwrapped All-Stars, Ray Obiedo & the Urban Latin Jazz Project, Mimi Fox, Bobby Caldwell, Boney James, and Kem.

2006

Performers included Chaka Khan, Will Downing, George Duke & Stanley Clarke, Norman Brown, Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band, and Pieces of a Dream

2007

A line-up featuring Rachelle Ferrell, Arlington Houston, Joe Sample & Randy Crawford, Brian Culbertson, Najee, the Superstars of Jazz Fusion staring Roy Ayers, Jean Carne, Lonnie Liston Smith, Jon Lucien and Wayne Henderson.

2008

Kenny G, Will Downing, Brian Culbertson, The Escovedo Family featuring: Pete Escovedo, Sheila E. plus Juan and Peter Michael Escovedo

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.kblx.com/gallery/Berkeley-Jazz-Festival-7-28-07 Berkeley Jazz Festival 7-28-07]
* [http://www.j-notes.com/archives/2005/08/23/berkeley_jazz_festival_highlig.php 2005 Berkeley Jazz Festival Highlights]
* [http://www.whatchusay.com/archives/2005/07/concert_review.html 2005 Concert Review: Berkeley Jazz Festival]
* [http://www.apeconcerts.com/venue_greekTheatre.cfm Hearst Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley]
* [http://www.bayareaproductions.com/ Bay Area Productions]

ee also

* List of San Francisco Bay Area festivals and fairs