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ZAZU: Django’s French Hot Club Gypsy Jazz ignites Sept. 19 JiA party |
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An article in Voice of America last December proclaimed, “Gypsy Jazz Invades America.” The article was referring to the proliferation of groups bringing this “French music” to American audiences, a music that is enjoying popularity worldwide, crossing lines of age, musical genre and more.
One such group devoted to gypsy jazz has its origin in Sedona where bassist Steve Douglas formed ZAZU. “The group's name comes from the word ‘Zazous’, the young French Bohemians of the 1930s who were huge fans of American singer-bandleader Cab Calloway's scat music,” Douglas explains. "During the German occupation of France from 1940 on, the Zazous frequented places where the hip jazzy gypsy music was played, but always in fear of being arrested and shipped off to camps or jail. So, in tribute to them and the risks they took for the love of this music, we call ourselves ZAZU," says Douglas.
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 PRESCOTT JAZZ SUMMIT
August 27, 28 and 29
Prescott, Arizona is located in Arizona's high country, just 90 miles north of Phoenix.
Combining the dulcet sounds of some of the nation's most outstanding jazz musicians with the moderate summer temperatures and towering shade trees of Prescott means 'cool' is a word you'll no doubt utter often during the 10th Annual Prescott Jazz Summit.
More info and tickets at bigbandjazz.net/calendar/prescottjazz2010.asp |
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