Jacksonville Jazz Festival 2016 Program
The Jacksonville Jazz Festival is a weekend celebration of Jazz music held in Jacksonville, Florida. Coinciding with Memorial Day weekend, the event has been dubbed by "experts" as "one of the 20 best in the nation", according to the Florida Times-Union.[1] Admission is free with the exception of VIP areas, and events and performances take place throughout downtown venues. This year's headliners were Snarky Puppy, Jon Batiste and Stay Human, KEM, Dr. John, McCoy Tyner, the Yellowjacksts and many more
The Jacksonville Jazz Festival is a weekend celebration of Jazz music held in Jacksonville, Florida. Coinciding with Memorial Day weekend, the event has been dubbed by "experts" as "one of the 20 best in the nation", according to the Florida Times-Union.[1] Admission is free with the exception of VIP areas, and events and performances take place throughout downtown venues. This year's headliners were Snarky Puppy, Jon Batiste and Stay Human, KEM, Dr. John, McCoy Tyner, the Yellowjacksts and many more
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GARY STARLING<br />
Gary Starling Group feat. Russell George<br />
Gary Starling has been<br />
teaching and playing jazz in<br />
the <strong>Jacksonville</strong> area for decades.<br />
He has performed with Eddie<br />
Harris, Nat Adderley, Joshua<br />
Breakstone, Jim Snidero and<br />
more. He was hired by Fran Kinne<br />
at <strong>Jacksonville</strong> University in the<br />
early 1980’s and is currently Artist<br />
in Residence of Guitar. His early<br />
studies include Georgia State<br />
University, Dick Grove Music<br />
Workshop/Los Angeles and<br />
personal lessons and encounters<br />
with Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery,<br />
Barney Kessel and other jazz<br />
greats. In 2012, Gary was honored<br />
with induction into the <strong>Jacksonville</strong><br />
<strong>Jazz</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> Hall of Fame.<br />
Russell George retired to<br />
St. Augustine from New York City<br />
a few years ago. His illustrious<br />
career includes decades of<br />
recordings as a first call bassist<br />
with everyone from Frank Sinatra<br />
and Sarah Vaughn, to James<br />
Brown, Paul Simon and hundreds<br />
more. He played with Dizzy<br />
Gillespie, Ben Webster, Marion<br />
McPartland, Ross Tompkins and<br />
many others. Several years ago, he<br />
discovered Gary Starling’s group<br />
at their long-running Thursday<br />
night gig at Table 1 in Ponte Vedra.<br />
He has been a regular and beloved<br />
fixture there, since.<br />
Jimmy<br />
BEATS<br />
Jimmy Beats was born in San<br />
Juan to a native Puerto Rican<br />
family and grew up in Orlando,<br />
Florida. Beats became interested<br />
in becoming a musician at a very<br />
young age and began guitar<br />
lessons at age 12. Jimmy Beats<br />
and several of his now long-time<br />
neighborhood friends played<br />
instruments and formed a garage<br />
band performing at many late night<br />
venues in Orlando. Beats eventually<br />
transitioned from performer to<br />
engineer, producer and songwriter.<br />
He now performs his own original<br />
songs as well as writes, produces<br />
and engineers his and others<br />
music. The Jimmy Beats sound is<br />
most unique, his sound can range<br />
from a jazzy funk with reggae<br />
riddims to a smooth and alluring<br />
lovers rock with reggae riddims.<br />
Beats music has been described<br />
as some the most soulful and<br />
mystical music you could hope to<br />
bless your ears upon.<br />
<strong>2016</strong> <strong>Jacksonville</strong> <strong>Jazz</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> 57
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