Sacramento Jazz Festival & Jubilee

Sacramento Jazz Festival May 25-28, 2012    sacjazz.com
 

Hyatt Ballroom 209 L Street
Sheraton Ballroom 1230 J Street
Convention Center 13th & K St.

Location venues include Sacramento Convention Center and surrounding hotels ballrooms and other meeting rooms. There are dance floors for dancing, seating for listening, and constant music throughout the town.

4 days of live music, 60 bands, 24 venues. WOW! The party launches with a colorful parade along streets lined with jazz fans of all ages. Jazz music of all types will permeate Old Sac, the Convention Center, and major hotels. Whether jazz is your favorite music or not, this is one festival music lovers shouldn't miss. There's more to it than just jazz, though jazz is plentiful throughout the four days of concerts.

Tickets (discounts youth & seniors)

$110 Friday through Monday All Events Badge
$35 - Friday 1 - 11 p.m.
$45 - Saturday or Sunday 10 a.m. - 11 p.m.
$20 Monday  10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
By phone: (916) 372-5277


Traditional jazz, also known as Dixieland or classic jazz, inspired by Louis Armstrong. Swing music, inspired by big band music of the 30s and 40s. Blues, inspired by American roots music of the Mississippi Delta. New Orleans 2nd-line & street beat
Zydeco party music
Soulful rhythm & blues
Ragtime and early jazz
Straight-ahead & mainstream jazz
Latin jazz and mariachi music
Marching bands
Jazz orchestras
Youth bands
Tributes and specialty concerts
Banjo performances at the
CA State Railroad Museum and on excursion trains

2011 Emperor Tom Rigney
Tom will appear with his band, Flambeau

Bob Draga (clarinet), Jim Fryer (trombone),
Ed Polcer (cornet), Bob Schulz (cornet),
Bria Skönberg (cornet/vocals).

Featured Artists

Banu Gibson & New Orleans Hot Jazz
with all-stars Bill Allred, Jon-Erik Kellso,
Dan Block, David Boeddinghaus,
Kerry Lewis, and Kevin Dorn

Black Dogs (Tom Hook with Davy Jones,
Jim Buchmann, Pat Gullotta, Bob Leary,
Dave Gannett, and Ed Metz, Jr.)
Carl "Sonny" Leyland 2010 Inductee
Boogie-Woogie Piano Hall of Fame
Lisa Haley & the Zydekats Grammy nominee for Best Zydeco/Cajun CD
Matt Perrine (Tin Men)
Vince Bartels' Swing Quintet
with all-stars Pete Christlieb, John Allred,
Johnny Varro, and Jennifer Leitham

CLASSIC JAZZ & SWING BANDS

101st Army Dixieland Jazz Band
Banu Gibson & New Orleans Hot Jazz*
Big Mama Sue Quartet
Bill & Eddie
Black Dogs (Tom Hook)*
Blue Street Jazz Band
Carl Sonny Leyland Trio*
Catsnjammer Jazz Band
Cornet Chop Suey
Dr. Bach & the Jazz Practitioners
Dutch's Gramercy Six
Fulton Street Jazz Band
Hal Smith's International Sextet (Hal Smith with
Kim Cusack, Carl Sonny Leyland, Anita Thomas,
Katie Cavera, Clint Baker)
High Sierra Jazz Band
Kristy Reed Quartet
Miss Margie & the Hot Five
Natural Gas
Neville Dickie & Danny Coots
Pearl Django
Red Skunk Jipzee Swing Band
Royal Society Jazz Orchestra
Shelley Burns & Avalon Swing
Sister Swing
St. Louis Rivermen
Steve Lucky & the Rhumba Bums
(with Carmen Getit)
Stompy Jones
The New Lowdown
The Professors
Tin Men (Matt Perrine)*
Vince Bartels' Swing Quintet*
Wally's Warehouse Waifs
Yve Evans & Company

NEXT GENERATION BANDS
(Traditional jazz youth bands):

Arden Middle School
Crazy Eights
Denver Jazz Club Youth All-Stars
Diversely Dixie (Sheldon HS)
Dixie Dominus (Fremont Christian School)
Dynamite Jazz Band
J Street Jazz Cats
Jazz Raptors
Mission Bay H.S. Jazz Band
Raisin Babies
Reedley River Rats
Sax by Popular Demand
Syncopating Sea-Monkeys
Take 2
TNT – STJS-sponsored youth band

STRAIGHT-AHEAD & MAINSTREAM JAZZ

Capital Jazz Project
Beth Duncan Quintet
Jerry Krahn Band
Vivian Lee Quintet
Jim Martinez Quintet

ZYDECO BANDS

Gator Beat
Lisa Haley & the Zydekats
Mark St. Mary Louisiana Blues and Zydeco Band
Tom Rigney & Flambeau*

BLUES BANDS

Catfish & the Crawdaddies
Delta Wires
Mick Martin & the Blues Rockers
Sacramento Blues Revue

R&B / SOUL / FUNK

Aftershock
California Honeydrops
The Nibblers

TRIBUTE BANDS

"Johnny Cash Tribute" featuring James Garner
Rhythm Vandals ("Tribute to Santana")
Steelin' Dan ("The Music of Steely Dan")

LATIN BANDS

Jazz 'n' Samba (Steve & Francesca)
La Descarga!
Mariachi Los Gallos
Sabor Jazz Ensemble

AFROBEAT

Anthony Coleman & Sankofa

MARCHING BANDS

California Repercussions
Ophir Prison Marching Kazoo Band & Temperance Society, Lmtd.

WESTERN SWING
Stardust Cowboys

POPULAR MUSIC

Capitol Pops (orchestra)
Sacramento Capitolaires (vocals)