June 29 at historic Kingston City Hall – 7:30 PM

John Lindberg Winter Birds Quartet

Featuring: Baikida Carroll - trumpet, flugelhorn; Steve Gorn - bansuri flutes, clarinet, 

soprano saxophone; Tani Tabbal - drums, percussion; John Lindberg - bass

Jazz Kamikaze - Direct from Denmark – US Premier Performance  

New Talent in Latin Jazz

Directed by Luis Bonilla, trombone and featuring: Ivan Renta-Saxophone;

Robert Rodriguez-Piano; Ricardo Rodriguez-Bass; Claudio DePujadas-Drums 

with special guest Anthony Carrillo-percussion  

Roland Vazquez Quintet

Featuring:Joel Frahm – saxes; Manuel Valera – piano; Anthony Jackson - 

contrabass guitar; Mike Lipsey - vibes & percussion; Roland Vazquez - composer/drums

July 1 – Down in the Rondout - 1:00 PM

The Joe Barna Quintet – featuring Ralph LaLama  

The Kingston High School Jazz Ensemble, directed by Bob Shaut

The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Quintet – featuring Slide Hampton

The Diane Delin Quartet  

The Jimmy Heath Big Band

THE JIMMY HEATH BIG BAND

Jimmy Heath has long been recognized as a brilliant instrumentalist and a magnificent composer and arranger.  During his career, Jimmy Heath has performed on more than 100 record albums including seven with The Heath Brothers and twelve as a leader.  Jimmy has also written more than 125 compositions, many of which have become jazz standards and have been recorded by other artists including Art Farmer, Cannonball Adderley, Clark Terry, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, James Moody, Milt Jackson, Ahmad Jamal, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie J.J Johnson and Dexter Gordon.  His new CD Turn Up The Heath, The Jimmy 

Heath Big Band has been receiving rave reviews and spent 25 weeks on the JazzWeek 

radio charts peaking at #1.

"...in his composing-arranging as well as in his playing, Jimmy has indeed embodied jazz's rainbow of sounds and stories."

Nat Hentoff - JazzTimes

“One of the best composers and arrangers to emerge during the bop era…”    

KEN DRYDEN – ALL MUSIC GUIDE  

THE DIZZY GILLESPIE ALUMNI ALL-STAR QUINTET

History has produced its share of great artists and great people—John Birks"Dizzy" 

Gillespie was both. As a performer, he left behind an incredible record of innovation and inspiration; as a composer, a broad repository of musical.masterpieces; and as a man, a legion of friends, colleagues and compatriots who remember him with the same degree of

love and esteem they reserve for his work  

You could not have asked for a better ensemble of players to take on the challenge of reconstructing the style, wit and excitement of a Gillespie performance." 

Seth Rogovoy  - The Berkshire Eagle   

THE ROLAND VAZQUEZ QUINTET

The Roland Vazquez Quintet takes Latin jazz to a new level.  The ensemble features: Joel Frahm – saxes, Manuel Valera – piano, Anthony Jackson - contrabass guitar, Mike Lipsey - vibes & percussion and Roland Vazquez - composer/drums  

"The Quintet, with its uncommonly strong crew of improvisers, is more compact yet equally explosive in its versions of Vazquez's music, which is Latin jazz with a heavy emphasis on composition. Vazquez has the ideal players for interpreting his lean haunting, and unpredictable lines... " Bob Blumenthal/Boston Globe  

DIANE DELIN QUARTET

Diane Delin is a Chicago based jazz violinist and composer whose music is receiving great attention. The Downbeat Critics Poll voted her a Rising Star in August 2005, and The 

Chicago Sun-Times remarks, “her playing has a toughness and stringency to go with its elegance and verve." Neil Tesser, jazz radio host of "Listen Here" and author of the Playboy Guide to Jazz writes that she "can light a real fire under both a band and an audience”  

while Boston’s jazz writer and radio host Fred Bouchard states, “She’s really a fine player 

with exquisite taste.”

JOE BARNA ENSEMBLE – FEATURING RALPH LALAMA

A kickin’ ensemble out of Albany , NY with special guest Ralph LaLama.  

"Joe Barna's musical concepts and the way his ensemble realizes them make for an 

excellent evening. Joe's compositions expolore a wide range of styles, and he and his group bear watching." - Pete Malinverni, Jazz Pianist/Recording Artist/Educator NYC  

NEW TALENT IN LATIN JAZZ

Directed by Luis Bonilla, this newly formed ensemble features some of the hottest young Latin/jazz players around including: Luis Bonilla – trombone, Ivan Renta-Saxophone, Robert Rodriguez-Piano, Ricardo Rodriguez-Bass, Claudio DePujadas-Drums with special guest Anthony Carrillo-percussion  

JAZZ KAMIKAZE

Direct from Scandinavia in their U.S. premier performance, the winners of the 2005 Young Nordic Jazz Comets award have been exciting audiences from Norway to Bankok.    

“The quality of the tunes, all of which have a memorable hook, is as impressive as the

 virtuoso musicianship…” - Ian Patterson All About Jazz

JOHN LINDBERG WINTERBIRDS QUARTET

Performing a series of compositions commissioned by the Doris Duke/Chamber 

Music America New Works program, this ensemble will kick off the 2007 festival in an all acoustic set at the historic Kingston City Hall.   

“One of John Lindberg's most enduring distinctions is that he demonstrates how much having fun could —and should —be central to modern jazz dynamics. It seems Lindberg is one of

 the few bassists who actively pursues this emanations of Charles Mingus' smile.”—Down Beat  

“Lindberg originals are smartly written, full of humor and played with insouciance...good 

music is good music, regardless of the technique used to make it, or the label the industry puts on it.”  —Arts & Entertainment  

THE KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Back by popular demand, this group of young musicians under the direction of Bob Shaut 

will take the stage for a set of classic and contemporary big band music.