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lthough some people might not be too jazzed about turning 40, when a beloved jazz festival has, over four decades, grown to become a signature event of the Tampa Bay area, it’s definitely cause for celebration. The four-day, four-night concert that started with performances on the back of a flatbed truck is known as the Clearwater Jazz Holiday, an international tourist draw along with a cherished local tradition. More than 35,000 attendees dot the lawn at Coachman Park in downtown Clearwater every October to watch top music acts and local jazz stars while enjoying fall breezes coming off the beautiful Gulf of Mexico.

“It takes a village to create this experience every year, and some very special people have contributed along the way,” says Clearwater Jazz Holiday Foundation CEO Steve Weinberger.

“It’s been fun reconnecting with those who have played a special part through the years, looking at old pictures and memorabilia and listening to stories.”

Legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich, Dave Brubeck, Tito Puente and the Count Basie Orchestra have all graced the CJH stage over the years. The festival has also brought top acts in soul, funk, Americana and rock to Clearwater over the years, including Gladys Knight, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Avett Brothers and Sheryl Crow to name just a few.

This year’s special 40th anniversary headliner lineup features a mix of classic, throw-back and contemporary artists, Weinberger says: Chicago, Alison Krauss, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and, for their first-ever appearance at CJH, Boyz II Men. Another anticipated highlight of this year’s festival is the 40th Anniversary Tribute to Jazz Vocalists. “We’re bringing back artists special to the CJH tradition and who have previously played the fest, such as Fred Johnson and Belinda Womack,” Weinberger says.

For the festival’s big anniversaries, organizers put together special collaborations or tributes, he explains.

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“One very memorable piece was the Changing Keys set during our 35th anniversary that featured everything from classical and ragtime to synthesizers,” Weinberger recalls. “As a surprise, we also arranged for Chick Corea to walk on, too, and the crowd went wild. That set took a lot of coordination, and kudos to Allon Sams, chair of our Music Committee for his creativity, vision and hard work.”

That so many talented, renowned musicians come together for collaborations, both spontaneous and well planned, are a favorite aspect of the festival for many long-time fans of the Clearwater Jazz Holiday.

“Folks are still talking about the Clearwater Jazz Collective last year, which featured a two-and-ahalf-hour set with some of the finest musicians in our jazz community, including la Lucha, Thomas Carabasi (drums), Jeremy Carter (sax), Valerie Gillespie (saxophone and vocals), John Lamb (bass), Mark Moultrup (piano and vocals), Nate Najar (guitar), LaRue Nickelson (guitar), Gumbi Ortiz (percussion), Jamie Perlow (vocals), James Suggs (trumpet) and Butch Thomas (saxophone),” Weinberger says.

In addition to an exciting 2019 performance lineup, expect an extra-special anniversary after party following the set of Friday headliner Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue. Head over to the Bilheimer Capitol Theatre Oct. 18 at 10:30 p.m. for the After Party presented by 4G Live and The Living Room. Secret, surprise guests always pop up to play with the Clearwater Jazz Holiday Jam Band – so don’t miss what’s sure to be a memorable session this year!

Saturday night’s festival also ends with a bang – with a fireworks display presented by HCA West Florida Pinellas County Hospitals – so plan to watch the sky ignite at 10:45 p.m., Saturday the 19th, after Chicago’s electrifying set.

Clearwater Jazz Holiday is Oct. 17 – Oct. 20.

For more information and tickets, Clearwaterjazz.com —Virginia Pelley, Times correspondent

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The lineup is always diverse, showcasing a combination of legendary artists and a new generation of stars. Fans relish a wide array of musical styles including straight ahead and smooth jazz, swing, blues, jamband, folk, Americana, funk, rock/pop and Zydeco, against the backdrop of warm breezes, brilliant sunsets, and one of the world’s best beaches.

The annual celebration is made possible by the Clearwater Jazz Holiday Foundation, Inc., a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization, together with its treasured “Jazz Force” lead operational volunteers, and collaborating partners the City of Clearwater, Visit St Pete/Clearwater and Ruth Eckerd Hall. A strong community of corporate, private, and public support also serves to sustain and grow this cherished tradition.

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The Foundation’s mission is to be the leading proponent of jazz entertainment and education in Florida through the annual presentation of a worldclass, music festival. The growth and success of the festival enables the Foundation to deliver a year-round, impactful, cultural presence with innovative programs, special funding, creative learning experiences, exciting performance opportunities, and a diverse, vibrant social community all year long.

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he Clearwater Jazz Holiday kickoff night Oct. 17 is always special. It sets the tone for the whole weekend, introduces first-timers to the iconic Tampa bay area tradition and hints to returning fans that this year might be their favorite yet.

But Thursday night this year holds special significance as the start of the Jazz Holiday’s 40th anniversary.

Filling the stage tonight are acts exemplifying the heart of jazz rooted deep in the CJH tradition, as well as deep funk to get the party started.

“We definitely wanted to showcase some smooth jazz this year, as the smooth jazz audience has followed the fest through the years. And we knew Jazmin would be a great fit,”

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says Steve Weinberger, Clearwater Jazz Holiday Foundation CEO, noting that this is Ghent’s first appearance at CJH. “New Orleans music has also played a special part in the CJH lineup over the years.

We’ve never had The Soul Rebels before and thought they would be a really fun complement to the day.”

Thursday’s headliners are beloved R&B icons, Boyz II Men, aka Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman. Referring to them as icons isn’t hyperbole -- Boyz II Men have sold 64 million albums in their 28-year career, making them the best-selling R&B group of all time.

The group catapulted to stardom with the infectious “Motownphilly” and “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday,” from their 1991 classic album, Cooleyhighharmony, and since then have seen five singles reach No. 1 on the Billboard Music Charts and 10 singles make the top 10. Their single “End of the Road” held the No. 1 spot for 13 weeks in 1992 and “I’ll Make Love toYou” was No. 1 for 14 weeks. They’ve won four GRAMMY Awards, nine American Music Awards, three Billboard Awards and nine Soul Train Awards, as well as awards for their longrunning residency at the Mirage Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

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they also have a lot of younger fans, too,” Weinberger says.

Opening for Boyz II Men as the sun sets is New Orleans-based eight-piece brass ensemble The Soul Rebels. The band puts classics such as the Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This” and Jay-Z’s “Show Me WhatYou Got” through a spin cycle of funk, soul and hip-hop, then irons them into sharp new edges with heavy brass. Soul Rebels have toured with Katy Perry and DMX, have appeared on The Late Show

with Stephen Colbert and have collaborated with Big Freedia, Nas, Robin Thicke, Macy Gray, GZA, Raekwon and Metallica. Listen for a sneak peek of their new album, Poetry in Motion, which drops Oct. 25!

Don’t miss (seriously, don’t!) the rich, brass-heavy, deeply percussive sound of the Polyrhythmics at 5:15 p.m.

An instrumental eight-piece group that blends funk, soul, progressive jazz and Afrobeats, Polyrhythmics’

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instrumentals have inspired comparisons to The Meters and The Dap Kings.

Their music has a haunting complexity but is still fun and energetic, such as in the early-’70sfunky “Goldie’s Road” and “Spider Wolf,” which evokes 1960s surfexotica, from their latest album, Caldera.

Kicking off the performances is award-winning saxophonist Jazmin Ghent, New Smooth Jazz Artist of theYear in 2017, who lights up the stage at 3:45 p.m. The young gospel recording artist also won the 2019 NAACP Image Award for outstanding jazz album, “The Story of Jaz,” which includes collaborations with flutist Kim Scott and keyboardist Jeff Lorber. Ghent regularly tops the Billboard charts, with singles “Work Wit It,” “Compared to What,” “Amends” featuring Jeff Lorber and “Heat,” which charted for more than 20 weeks.

For more information and tickets, ClearwaterJazz.com.

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riday brings oldschool, stride-swing jazz with a sultry twist, Texas boogies, swampy New Orleans ballads and groove-laden Gulf Coast blues,” promises Steve Weinberger, CEO of the Clearwater Jazz Holiday Foundation.

“Expect a pedal steel guitar phenom with a dynamic band, and four-time jazzfunk fan favorites who never fail to bring the house down.”

The CJH stage is “Where It At?” as Friday’s headliner, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, perform at 9:30 p.m. New Orleans jazz artist and living legend Trombone Shorty, aka Troy Andrews, is a longtime CJH favorite. A singer and songwriter as well as master of multiple instruments, Andrews just came off a tour with Ben Harper and also recently performed with Thomas Rhett and Little Big Town at the CMT Music Awards. Gifted and adept at fusing blues, funk and hip-hop, Andrews has played with a dizzying number of musicians, including the Foo Fighters, the Neville Brothers and Mavis Staples. He backed up Macklemore and Madonna at the Grammy Awards, and has performed at the White House several times. His latest album, Parking Lot Symphony, features collaborations with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Better Than Ezra and The Meters.

Andrews gives back behind the scenes as well as on stage with his music-education nonprofit the Trombone Shorty Foundation, work that’s in tune with the CJH Foundation’s dedication to outreach and education.

Make sure you’re wearing shoes you can dance in when five-time Grammy nominee and pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph & The Family Band comes on at 7:30 p.m.

Eric Clapton and Carlos Santana have studied Randolph’s mastery of the little-known gospel music tradition of “sacred steel” guitar, and the group (an actual “family” band featuring Randoph’s siblings and cousins) is a jam-band favorite.

Audiences can’t help but get down to the group’s many hits that showcase Randolph’s incredible talent and energy, including "Ain’t Nothing Wrong with That", "Love Do What It Do," (featuring Darius Rucker) and "Don’t Fight It", from the group’s latest album, Brighter Days, just released in August.

Marcia Ball, a fixture on the blues and roots rock scene since the late 1970s, takes the stage at 5:45 p.m.

The Texas-born, Louisiana-raised pianist, singer and songwriter has been hailed by critics for the “barrelhouse piano” style and rich,

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vibrant melodies of her songs since the release of her first album, Circuit Queen, in 1978. Her latest and 15th album, 2018’s Shine Bright, was produced by Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin. The Texas State Musician of theYear in 2018, who also has been inducted into the Gulf Coast and Louisiana Music Halls of Fame, Ball has appeared in movies and on TV many times, including with the New Orleans Social Club in a benefit for Hurricane Katrina victims onThe Late Show with David Letterman and on NPR’s A Jazz Piano Christmas live from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Over the last several years, Gloria West and The Gents have been bringing classic, good-time stride-swing jazz to audiences all over the Tampa Bay area. Stride is often described as a blend of ragtime and blues developed by famed pianists such as James P. Johnson, Fats Waller and Willie “The Lion” Smith in the 1920’s. The sound comes alive with West’s strong and complex vocals, which have inspired comparisons to Norah Jones and Billie Holliday.

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Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016, horn-heavy, soft rock chart toppers Chicago are one of the top 10 best-selling US rock bands of all time. Since forming in 1967, they’ve released 36 albums and have sold a whopping 100,000,000 albums. Nine Chicago albums went multi-platinum (Chicago 17 went platinum six times), and they’ve recorded a string of pop and adult contemporary hits including “Saturday in the Park,” and “If You Leave Me Now,” for which the group won the GRAMMYs for single of the year and best pop vocal performance by a group or duo in 1976.

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Making the entire audience so very happy when they hit the stage at 7:15 p.m. is Blood, Sweat & Tears, the iconic, five-timeGRAMMY-nominated group self-described on their website as “born from a selfish notion that we could combine the sophistication and musical skill level of jazz music with the energy and universal appeal of rock vocal music.”

Their selfishness is our reward, as the band has bestowed countless crowd-pleasing hits such as “You Make Me So Very Happy,” “Spinning Wheel,” and “Smiling Phases.” Their self-titled album won a GRAMMY in 1969, beating out The Beatles’ Abbey Road and going quadruple platinum. Since then, Blood, Sweat & Tears has delighted millions of fans with their innovative blend of jazz fusion, brass band and rhythm and blues with a touch of psychedelia.

The performance scheduled for 5:15 p.m. is sure to become a cherished memory for those lucky enough to see it. For the 40th Anniversary of the Clearwater Jazz Holiday, organizers have enlisted a powerhouse Tribute to Jazz Vocalists featuring acclaimed local legends in jazz including Karen Benjey, Erica DiCeglie, Valerie Gillespie, Theo Valentin, Belinda Womack, and the phenomenal Fred Johnson backed up by talented local favorites La Lucha.

Opening Saturday’s fest are two other fun ensembles comprised of solid area jazz musicians. “Local professional and CJH education partner, trumpeter James Suggs, will perform with some very talented students as part of CJH’sYoung Lions Jazz Master Sessions initiative,” Weinberger says.

Following up is the University of Miami’s Frost Jazz Ensemble featuring GRAMMY winner, Latin Grammy nominee and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, Maestro Dafnis Prieto, who will also perform with the Clearwater Jazz Holiday/Ruth Eckerd HallYouth Jazz Band on Sunday.

“Get there early Saturday for some great jazz and stay ’til the end for fireworks!” Weinberger says.

For more information and tickets, ClearwaterJazz.com.

—Virginia Pelley,Times correspondent

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learwater Jazz Holiday Foundation CEO, Steve Weinberger says “Our Sunday at CJH tradition has become a fan favorite for many attendees.

Sunday features a soulful local gem of a band, Americana pioneers known for their spirited live shows, a popular genre-defying progressive bluegrass quintet, and Alison Krauss, one of the most unique and beautiful voices in all of music, warming the soul with that special blend of bluegrass, country, gospel and folk.”

Fresh off a tour with Willie Nelson is Sunday’s headliner and international bluegrass star Alison Krauss. A violinist who began gaining recognition for her talent in her early teens, Krauss has arguably done more than any other artist to keep the bluegrass tradition alive.

She has amassed an incredible 42 GRAMMY nominations and 27 wins, more than any other female artist ever. Krauss also possesses a unique and lovely singing voice, as heard on her haunting single “LosingYou,” which won the GRAMMY for best country solo performance in 2017, and in her performance of “Amazing Grace,” at the US Capital on the 30th National Memorial Day Concert that aired on PBS earlier this year. Krauss has released more than a dozen albums, both solo and with longtime band, Union Station. Her 1995

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compilation, Now That I’ve FoundYou, sold 1 million copies, reached No. 2 on the country charts and broke the pop top 10, she recorded the multi-platinum Raising Sand with Led Zeppelin icon Robert Plant, and also played on the popular soundtrack for the 2000 film O Brother, Where ArtThou?

Opening for Krauss is theYonder Mountain String Band, a progressive bluegrass group from Colorado that has generated an impressive following in their 20-year history.

With a gift for improvisation and pushing genre boundaries (not to mention the mandolin mastery of Jacob Jolliff), this five-piece Americana band always puts on a memorable, special performance.

As the energy escalates, get ready to let loose and throw down during the 4:45 p.m. set of the fun and lively Parsonsfield, a genre-busting roots and folk Americana band that also, at times, evokes ’90s indie rock and ’70s R&B. Before Parsonsfield, catch the soulful Ashley Smith & The Random Occurrence at 3:15 p.m., whose set will hopefully include the mesmerizing and heartfelt “3 Goodbyes,” and “Stuck in Time,” two tracks in which Smith’s vocals

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Make sure to get to the Jazz Holiday early enough to catch what’s sure to be an amazing performance of the Ruth Eckerd Hall / Clearwater Jazz HolidayYouth Jazz Band with Special Guest Dafnis Prieto.

An awe-inspiring, acclaimed talent, Prieto literally wrote the book on drumming, penning an instructional in 2016, and has been recognized in a long list of honors including a GRAMMY Award in 2018 and a nomination for two Latin GRAMMYs and one other GRAMMY nomination for best Latin jazz album in 2006. Prieto also performs on Saturday with the University of Miami’s Frost Jazz Ensemble.

For more information and tickets, ClearwaterJazz.com.

—Virginia Pelley,Times correspondent

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f you follow the Clearwater Jazz Holiday Foundation on social media, you know how incredibly busy they are, yearround, contributing to the Tampa Bay area community. In addition to visiting classrooms, community centers and senior centers to present educational programs about jazz and its history, the foundation provides instructional and performance opportunities for talented local kids, as well as scholarships and other funding to students and music programs.

High school trombone player Brendan Nelson was the second recipient of the Foundation’s new Frank T. Williams III Summer Camp Scholarship, says CJH Foundation CEO Steve Weinberger. The funds helped Nelson attend the Florida State University Jazz Camp, which was his first camp experience. Another first: the trombone gifted him at last year’s

Jazz Holiday by the organization, the first instrument he has owned, Weinberger says.

“It’s engraved in memory of trombonist Caroline Morton-Hicks, a beloved CJH volunteer who we lost earlier last year,” Weinberger says.

“Brendan has been progressing nicely as a performer. It has been great watching him pursue his passion,” he continues.

High school senior and outstanding sax player Tristan Nelson was the first recipient of the new camp scholarship awards, attending HAPCO Summer Jazz Camp in Orlando.

Foundation members and education partners Dwayne White and Michael Kernodle joined Nelson’s family in Disney Springs for the camp’s final performances.

CJH outreach initiatives, such as theYoung Lions Jazz Master Sessions and the History of Jazz and My Journey with Jazz programs,

leverage the talents of acclaimed local jazz musicians every year, including Alejandro Arenas, John Lamb and Frank Williams.

Connecting students with these professionals and educators is invaluable, Weinberger says. Since 2016, theYoung Lions Jazz Master Sessions has provided these opportunities for more than 450 jazz students from the bay area and beyond at a main event every December. And since 2018, the foundation has offered – with support from the Al Downing Tampa Bay Jazz Association – an expanded version of this free program in schools throughout the year. Another 200 students participated in these special sessions.

This year, the foundation also began offering guitar instruction at the Pinellas Sheriff’s Police Athletic League and other area neighborhood family centers via the My Journey with Jazz Program. The guitars are donated to the

The Beat Goes on All Year Round centers from their Build-A-Guitar partnership with Best Corporate Events.

But the festival itself is where the organization’s community support has its biggest audience. “The lineup is also an opportunity for Clearwater Jazz Holiday to showcase its mission of education and outreach, building a next-generation appreciation for the art form and creating valuable experiences for young performers and emerging artists,” Weinberger says.

Find out more about CJH’s community outreach efforts and events by following on Facebook.com/ClearwaterJazz, Instagram.com/ClearwaterJazz and ClearwaterJazz.com.

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