The 6th annual Newport Beach Jazz party will get underway on President’s Day Weekend at the Marriott Newport Beach Hotel and Spa . As advertised it will feature "Over 32 hours of Right Down the Middle and Straight Ahead Jazz." Among the over 50 musicians featured this year will saxophonists Scott Hamilton, Houston Person and Harry Allen; trumpeters Gilbert Castellanos and Carl Saunders; trombonists Mike Fahn and Wycliffe Gordon; pianists Benny Green, Bill Cunliffe and Gerald Clayton; bass pla …

The Monterey Jazz Festival has announced the lineup for the 49th Annual Monerey Jazz Festival held during the third weekend in September at the Monterey Fairgrounds, featuring over 500 artist appearing on seven stages for three nights and two days, offering nonstop jazz from performers ranging from from piano greats Dave Brubeck,Oscar Peterson and McCoy Tyner to vocalist Kurt Elling and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Band. The program includes the world premiere of Brubeck’s "Cannery Row Suite." P …

"The Music of Miles Davis," presented May 5 and 6 at Founder’s Hall at Orange County Performing Arts Center, will pay tribute to the great trumpeter and his outstanding jazz groups. A consistently innovative musician, Davis made some of the most celebrated recordings in jazz. For the celebration, trumpeter Eddie Henderson will lead a sextet, featuring Davis' original drummer Jimmy Cobb from Davis' classic early sixties group. They will be joined by tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, pianist D …

Happily, some things change and some remain the same. That’s the headline for the upcoming 2006-7 jazz season in Orange County. The big change is taking place at the Orange County Performing Arts Center with the opening next month of the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, taking its place in the blossoming Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa. Included as part of the new hall, the Samueli Theater will be the site of this coming Jazz Club season which begins with the Ramsey Le …

Southern California jazz fans will have a chance to see and hear the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra during a rare West Coast appearance at the Renee and Henry Segerstom Concert Hall of the Orange County Performing Arts Center. he band was founded in New York City Feb. 7, 1966, at the Village Vanguard Club. From the beginning it was obvious that an exceptional ensemble had been born. Led by Thad Jones, cornetist, composer and arranger, and Mel Lewis, drummer, the original Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchest …