Atlanta Jazz Festival… 2005
May 28th began the free weekend of jazz in its 28th year that the Atlanta Jazz Festival has been in existence. It took place in Piedmont Park and once again Alonzo Craig is the festival manager programming the event alongside Director Love. Some new names and young lions appeared as well some famous old tigers and a Latin contingent bringing the music of Puerto Rico to the delight of the audience.
In performance were Adams Township, Andy Bey, Benny Golson Quartet, Brown’s Theory, Carmen Lundy, Christian Tamburr, Claudia Acuna, David “Fathead” Newman Quintet, Deborah Brown featuring Dr. Lonnie Smith with Joe Beck, Gwen Hughes Trio, Inman Middle School Jazz Band, International Groove Conspiracy, J.C. Young Middle School Jazz Band, Jaspects, Johnnie Eason, K-Zari Quintet, Kathleen Bertrand, Kebbie Williams Project, Kenny G, Kermit Walker Trio, Latin Jazz All-Stars, Life Force, Nefertari Bey, Nestor Torres, North Atlanta School for the Arts Jazz Band, Ojeda Penn Experience, Peachtree Ridge High School Jazz Ensemble, René Marie, Rick Bell Quintet, Rio Negro, Rod Smith Quartet, Sasha, Sonny Fortune, Sonya Williams, Southern Art Music Ensemble, Springer Quartet, State of the Art featuring Sonny Emory, Takana Miyamoto, Teddy Adams Quartet, The Dennis, Tito Puente Jr. Orchestra, Tommie Macon & the Gentlemen of Jazz, and the Yusef Lateef Quartet.
Sponsoring this year’s events were the ever present General Motors, Delta Airlines, Wyndham Midtown Atlanta, Anheuser Busch Companies, The Atlanta Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Publix Supermarkets, MARTA, The Atlanta Livery Company, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mudo Hispanic, Rolling Out, Atlanta Tribune The Magazine, JazzTimes, Abyss Jazz Magazine, Creative Loafing, BET Jazz The 24 Hour Jazz Channel, Atlanta Channel, WSB-TV, Jazz 91.9 FM WCLK, Smooth Jazz 105.7 WJZZ, The Bubbling Creek Company, and Premier Events Management. #AJF40
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Linda Sharrock was born Linda Chambers on April 2, 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and began singing in church choirs as a child. Interested in both folk music and jazz, she studied art while in college and became interested in avant-garde music.
She performed with Pharoah Sanders in the mid-1960s and late in 1966 she married Sonny Sharrock and professionally began using the spelling Lynda. She worked with him and Sanders into the early 1970s, as well as with Herbie Mann.
One of her best-known performances is on the 1969 Sonny Sharrock album Black Woman, released on Vortex Records. She toured Istanbul, Turkey in 1973 and recorded with Joe Bonner in 1974. After her divorce in 1978 she returned to using Linda, though she kept his surname.
A move to Vienna, Austria saw Sharrock working with Franz Koglmann, Eric Watson, and Wolfgang Puschnig well into the 1990s. She worked with ensembles such as the Pat Brothers, Red Sun, and AM4 in the 1980s, and with Harry Pepl in 1992.
Suffering a stroke in 2009 which left her partially disabled and aphasic, she briefly withdrew from the scene before returning in 2012. Since then the avant-garde and free jazz vocalist Linda Sharrock has appeared and recorded in France, Austria, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Slovenia, with various ensembles under the Linda Sharrock Network label.
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Don Butterfield was born on April 1, 1923 in Centralia, Washington and though he wanted to play trumpet in high school, the band director assigned him to tuba instead. After serving in the U.S. Military from 1942-46 he went on to study the instrument at the Juilliard School.
Butterfield started his professional career in the late 1940s playing for the CBS and NBC radio networks. He played in orchestras, including the American Symphony and on albums by Jackie Gleason until he became a full time member at the Radio City Music Hall.
By the 1950s, Don had switched to jazz, backing such artists as Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Sinatra, Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Jimmy Smith, and Moondog. He fronted his own sextet for a 1955 album on Atlantic Records and played the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.
The mid 1960s saw him taking a temporary, nearly unpaid, position conducting an amateur group of musicians known as the Gloria Concert Band, located in upstate New Jersey. In the Seventies he worked as a session musician playing on recordings for a variety of artists, and on television and film soundtracks, including The Godfather Part II.
As a sideman he recorded with Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley, David Amram, Bob Brookmeyer, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Teddy Charles, Jimmy Cleveland, Bill Evans, Art Farmer, Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Heath, Roland Kirk, John Lewis, Arif Mardin, Gil Mellé, Charles Mingus, Modern Jazz Quartet, James Moody, Wes Montgomery, Lee Morgan, Oliver Nelson, Oscar Peterson, Sonny Rollins, Lalo Schifrin, Jimmy Smith, Billy Taylor, Clark Terry, The Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra and Stanley Turrentine
Suffering a stroke in 2005 left him unable to no longer play the tuba and on November 27, 2006 tubist Don Butterfield passed away in Clifton, New Jersey from a stroke-related illness.
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Archie Semple was born Archibald Stuart Nisbet Semple on March 31, 1928 in Edinburgh, Scotland and played locally in Edinburgh at the start of his career, often with his trumpeter brother John.
Semple led several of his own bands before joining Mick Mulligan in 1952. He then worked with Freddy Randall in 1953-54, Roy Crimmins and Alex Welsh from 1955 to 1963, becoming one of Welsh’s most important sidemen.
He recorded as a leader in the late 1950s and early 1960s as well, but retired due to an encroaching drinking problem that led to health issues in the middle of the decade.
A very distinctive player with a rich and quirky musical imagination, Semple was one of the most strikingly individualistic musicians to emerge from the sometimes predictable British trad scene. His presence in the already formidable Welsh band helped to create much memorable music.
Clarinetist Archie Semple, whose influences included Edmond Hall and Pee Wee Russell passed away on January 26, 1974 in London, England.
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Atlanta Jazz Festival…2004
There was anticipation in the air as the days of jazz approach. The 2004 press conference and announcement party were now a part of jazz history, and the city awaited the gathering of jazzheads on May 29th through the 31st in Piedmont Park. It’s Alonzo Craig’s second year as the festival manager and to his credit he programmed a fabulous lineup of performers, notwithstanding the brothers Heath from his hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina. It is also the third year for the festival’s Youth Jazz Band Competition where middle and high school students compete for a coveted spot to open each day of the festival weekend.
Performing at the 2004 festival were both local favorites and national acts including Ahmad Jamal, Arturo Sandoval, the Bernard Linnette Trio, the Bob Miles Ensemble, E.J. Hughes Group, Earmail, the Heath Brothers, Hiromi, Hugh Masekela, the Ian Show Trio, International Groove Conspiracy (Future of Jazz Winner), J.C. Young Middle School Jazz Ensemble, Jimmy Scott & the Jazz Experience, Joe Jennings & Howard Nicholson’s Life Force, Johnnie Eason, Julie Dexter, K-Zari Quintet, Lamar County High’s “Trojan Pride” Jazz Band, Life Force & Friends, Lizz Wright, North Atlanta Center for the Arts Jazz Band, the Ojeda Penn Experience, Randy Weston Quintet, the Regina Carter Quintet, the Rick Bell Quintet, Ron Wiggins, the Roy Hargrove Quintet, Russell Gunn & Ethnomusicology, Selah2, Shirley Horn, Takana Miyamoto, the Milkshake Quartet, Tommie Macon & the Gentlemen of Jazz, Toni Redd, Vinicius Cantauria, Yusef Lateef & the Adam Rudolph Duo, and Yusef Sharif.
Sponsoring this weekend of free jazz for the public are Michelob, Atlanta Brewing Company, Borders Books, Music & Movie Cafe, MARTA, Publix Super Markets, Caversham Financial, Comcast, Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown, Premier Events Management, BET Jazz The 24 Hour Jazz Channel, Creative Loafing, Smooth 107.5, WRFG 89.3 FM, Southwest Atlanta Magazine, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta Magazine, General Motors, The Atlanta Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Atlanta Tribune The Magazine, HPNOTIQ, Delta Air Lines, Armstrong Marketing, Rolling Out, JazzTimes, Jazz 91.9FM WCLK, Mundo Hispanico, Upscale and Abyss Jazz Magazine. #AJF40
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