September 15 - 17 2006
Once again, LeRoy Downs will be the Master of Ceremonies for another wonderful year of jazz music at the 49th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival.
What an incredible line-up this year, one of the best! For the last several years, I have been the MC on the Bill Berry Night Club Stage.
This year I am just across the way at Dizzy's Den. There are fabulous performers through out the entire festival but, here is who will be with me at Dizzy's Den this year
Click on artists pictures below for information on each individual artist
8:30 pm Uri Caine & Bedrock
10:30 pm Roy Hargrove & RH Factor
SATURDAY NIGHT (9/16/06: 8:30 PM - 12:30 AM)
8:30 pm Kurt Elling Quartet
10:00 pm Robben Ford Band
11:30 pm Yellowjackets
SUNDAY NIGHT (9/17/06: 7:30 PM -11:00 PM)
7:30 pm Roy Hargrove Quintet
9:30 pm Hank Jones Trio with
Roberta Gambarini
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Buy your tickets and check out the line-up for the entire festival by clicking the Monterey Jazz Festival image below!
The
49th Monterey Jazz Festival presents 500 artists appearing on 7 stages
for 3 nights and 2 days at the Monterey Fairgrounds from September
15-17, 2006. Highlights of this years festival include 9-time Grammy
Award® winner Bonnie Raitt, the Charles Lloyd Quartet, Oscar Peterson,
the Dave Brubeck Quartet, the McCoy Tyner Trio, 4-time Grammy Award®
winner Dianne Reeves, and many more. The 2006 MJF Artist-In-Residence,
vocalist Kurt Elling, will also be featured throughout the weekend,
premiering Red Man-Black Man with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz
Orchestra, and pianist Dave Brubecks "Cannery Row Suite.
Other
performers include a myriad of internationally recognized acts,
including the winners from the Festivals 36th annual MJF High School
Jazz Competition, the MJF Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, and the
country's top high school and college jazz groups, including the
Berklee-Monterey Jazz Quartet and IAJE's Clifford Brown-Stan Getz
All-Stars.
See you there!!!!!!
LeRoy Downs
