MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL ON TOUR - tickets on sale now

MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL ON TOUR
Knight Theater – February 26, 2010
www.montereyjazzfestival.org
Band features Kenny Barron, Regina Carter, Russell Malone,
Kurt Elling, Kiyoshi Kitagawa, and Johnathan Blake
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
The Monterey Jazz Festival, a leader in jazz education and presentation since 1958, announces the thirty-six show, nationwide, six-week tour of the Monterey Jazz Festival All-Stars, billed as the Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour.
The band will perform on Friday, February 26, 2010, at 8 PM at the Knight Theater, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Presented by the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, the group features the nine-time Grammy®-nominated and 2010 NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron on piano; Grammy-nominated violinist Regina Carter; Grammy-winning guitarist Russell Malone; nine-time Grammy-nominated vocalist Kurt Elling; bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa; and Grammy-nominated drummer Johnathan Blake. The band made their debut at the 52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Presented by Verizon in September 2009.
Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased online at BlumenthalCenter.org, by phone at 704-372-1000, or from the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center Box Office located in the Tryon Street lobby of the Belk Theater.
Members of the MJF All-Stars have a special relationship with the Monterey Jazz Festival, and have a commitment to the cultivation of jazz audiences worldwide. Pianist Kenny Barron made his first of his eight appearances at MJF in the early 1960s with Dizzy Gillespie. Violinist Regina Carter was selected as Artist-In-Residence for MJF/47 in 2004 and has appeared at the Festival four times since 1999. Vocalist Kurt Elling, also selected as MJF’s Artist-In-Residence for MJF/49 in 2006, has appeared on the stages of the Festival four times since 2003. Guitarist Russell Malone has appeared five times at MJF since 1997. Both bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and drummer Johnathan Blake made their second appearances at MJF/52. All together, the members of the MJF/52 All-Star group have performed at Monterey twenty-five times.
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