Jacksonville Jazz Festival

Jazzland Cafe opens in Jacksonville

There’s a new jazz club in Arlington that may fill a hole in Jacksonville’s live music scene.

Despite having an annual world-class jazz festival that draws artists such as Herbie Hancock and Dave Brubeck, the city has lacks established venues that focus on the genre.

But now there’s Jazzland Cafe at 1324 University Blvd. N. near Jacksonville University. The club opened recently with plans to regularly feature musicians playing various jazz styles and to hold jam sessions. If all goes smoothly with the business, it should be a welcomed addition to the monthly jazz nights at the European Street Cafe Listening Rooms in San Marco and on the Southside, and to the periodic jazz performances at Poppy Love Smoke in downtown.

The manager, Carole Freeman, said the club is dedicated to working extensively with students in the Jacksonville University and University of North Florida jazz studies programs.

“What we want,” Freeman said, “is to allow a lot of students and other musicians to have a format to display their creativity.”

The club is designed as a listening room; beer and wine will be sold, but not food.

The schedule for July is already filling up:

July 2: Paulie Lentz

July 8: The Alignment Quartet featuring trumpeter Tyler Duncan

July 9: Ike Carter

July 16: The Jarell Harris Trio

July 23: Taylor Roberts Trio

July 30: Von Barlow’s Jazz Journey

A special Labor Day weekend event, “Jazz Heritage on Film,” is also planned, and will feature film screenings, lectures, exhibits and live performances.

For more on Jazzland Cafe, go to jazzlandcafe.com .

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Jacksonville Jazz Fest 2011!

For the past couple of years, there comes a time when even the most impassive cynic is forced to recognize the magic and sheer logistical genius of the City's Office of Special Events. Since the reimagination of the Jazz Festival as a downtown street festival event instead of a Metropolitan Park based sojourn, the remarkable women of Special Events, led by the iconoclastic Teresa Price have been tested to their limits. This year they have proven that they are a force to be contended with. Jazz Festival 2011 is set to outdo the tremendous success of last year's groundbreaking event. On top of that, the city's ambitious exploratory moves this year may end up catapulting the event into world class status. Join us for the inside dope of this years JazzFest!

The core area of the City that introduced the name "Blues Music" to the rest of the world, cradled the creation of Soul music in the now ravaged LaVilla District, and furiously partied while Southern Rock was called forth from the Jacksonville Ether has been blockaded off, festooned with streaming banners, bedecked with colorful silk constructions in the trees and on the buildings, and crowded with glistening white pavillions and tents. There are policemen and service people in golf carts swarming through the streets and absurdly colorful stages have been erected throughout the area.  There are flocks of chinese lanterns in some of the trees:  Last night the looked like nesting groups of glowing creatures, and the verdant lush greenery that has taken so many decades for our urban foresters to reintroduce into the city core is almost opulent in its disorder and profusion. Somewhere in this gigantic rambling quasi military operation there is a command center.  I have been to the titular headquarters on the second floor of the City Hall.  It is being directed by a group of young, supernaturally energetic women who are tremendously preoccupied with the titanic nature of the set up.  There are dispatches, emergency sorties, conversations that convey subdued panic.  There is bustle, people walking around with lists on blackberries and I phones, furrowed brows from rampant detail monitoring. If the city of Jacksonville ever needs to invade a small country, say Europe perhaps. it would have to look no further than this tight knit group of women.

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