PLAYBOY JAZZ FEST TO OPEN WITH BIG BAND
The 1987 Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend will begin and end with big bands, it was announced Thursday.
Saturday’s concert kicks off at 2:30 p.m. with the Hemet High School Band, followed by Duke Dejan’s Olympia Brass Band, the Leaders (Arthur Blythe, Lester Bowie, Chico Freeman, Kirk Lightsey, Cecil McBee and Don Moye), Jeff Lorber (featuring Karyn White and Michael Jeffries), the Count Basie Orchestra, Joe Williams with the Basie Orchestra, the Stan Getz Quartet, Sarah Vaughan with the Basie Orchestra, and Grover Washington Jr. The program will conclude at about 11 p.m. with the Charlie Watts Orchestra.
The winner of the Hennessy Jazz Search will open Sunday’s show at 2 p.m., followed by the Mundell Lowe Quartet, Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition, Etta James, the Branford Marsalis Quartet, Ruben Blades y Seis del Solar, Kenny G, and George Benson and Friends (with Earl Klugh). Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra will close the festival.
Comedian Bill Cosby will be the master of ceremonies.
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