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Chapter 14: Traveling Jazz: Your Ticket to the Best Festivals
Corea, Hank Jones, and Brad Mehldau are mainstays, along with contemporary
Scandinavians such as keyboard and synthesizer wiz Bugge Wesseltoft.
The Copenhagen Jazz Festival (festival.jazz.dk) is a place where you
hear many European languages as well as all sorts of English accents,
brought together by the universal “language” that is jazz. It’s a great way to
see the city because many concerts are free in urban parks and plazas.
Guelph Jazz Festival, Canada
This humble burg (its population is just over 100,000) at the junction of the
Speed and Eramosa does jazz in a big way. Founded in 1994, the Guelph Jazz
Festival (www.guelphjazzfestival.com) is held during five days in early
September and leans toward experimental jazz and improvisational music by
artists such as the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Mark Dresser, Joseph Jarman,
Roscoe Mitchell, Pauline Oliveros, and Wadada Leo Smith. Sometimes the
musicians collaborate with artists working in other media, such as visual art
or dance. The lineup also includes musicians from around the world: Asia to
Indonesia to Europe, as well as a lot of Canadian talent. In the tradition of
New Orleans, the festival knows how to take jazz to the streets — its 40th
anniversary tribute to the AACM consisted of a parade led by the 17-piece
Fanfare Pourpour through the heart of Guelph.
Guinness Jazz Festival, Cork, Ireland
World-class beer, the rugged Atlantic coastline, and rich farmlands cut by
river valleys — you couldn’t ask for a better setting than Ireland’s Guinness
Jazz Festival (www.corkjazzfestival.com), held during four days at the
end of October. The event mixes American talents like Chick Corea and
McCoy Tyner with rising Irish stars such as Dylan Rynhart and various
Europeans.
International Festival Musique Actuelle,
Victoriaville, Canada
Held in May in this city outside Montreal, this five-day festival (www.fimav.
qc.ca) emphasizes cutting-edge improvised music. One year it tossed free
jazz explorer Anthony Braxton together with the experimental Detroit electronic
band Wolf Eyes. It also featured rock and feedback master Thurston
Moore from the rock group Sonic Youth and a group called The Boredoms.
If you like jazz that pushes boundaries, this fest is your zone.
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