Jazzing it up in the Metro
July 3, 2007 by Sandy Renshaw
Filed under Arts, Community, Events, Guest Writer: Friedrich, Brenda, Iowa
This article was posted in 2007. Try out update for 2009: Jazz in July 2009.
The summer’s heating up for some great jazz! Gearing up for the sixth free Jazz
in July performance of the season, the Metro Arts Alliance is set to unleash
Janey Hooper and Susie Miget Project on Greenwood Park on the sixth.
Each year Metro Arts’ Jazz in July draws some 15,000 people to central Iowa
locations to enjoy the cool tones of area artists. Performers like Hooper and
Miget who are local jazz legends as well as Taz and Sam Salomone, also perennial
favorites.
2007’s concert schedule s no different and features performers covering the full
continuum of the jazz sound, including Dixieland, Big Band, Latin and Fusion
jazz. So, whether you like it smooth, cool or swinging, the metro has your jazz
with this sizzling summer line-up:
July 6 — Janey Hooper / Susie Miget Project with John Kizilarmut
Greenwood Park, Sylvan Theater
5:30 pmJuly 7 — Party Gras Classic Jazz Band
Union Park Baptist Church, 821 Arthur Avenue
2 pmJuly 8 — Noteworthy featuring vocals of Megan Bobo
Salisbury House, 4025 Tonawanda Drive
6 pmJuly 10 — Giants of Jazz: Hot Club of Des Moines
Behind the Shops at Roosevelt
6:30 pmJuly 11 — Keith Nash Septet
Scott/Four Mile Community Center
11:00 amJuly 11 — Taz & Cutter
Heartland Presbyterian Church
6 pmJuly 11 — Saxman Fuzion Mix
Heartland Presbyterian Church
7 pmJuly 12 — Brownian Motion
Waukee, Downtown Triangle
6 pmJuly 12 — Wayne Page Quartet
Waukee, Downtown Triangle
7:30 pmJuly 13 — Belin Quartet
Des Moines Public Library, Downtown
12:15 pmJuly 14 — Ashanti Latin Jazz
Roosevelt High School, west lawn
6:30 pmJuly 15 — Giants of Jazz: Stu Calhoun & Friends
West Des Moines City Hall, 4200 Mills Civic Pkwy
7 pmJuly 17 — The Roxi Copland Quartet
Science Center of Iowa, new Public Art area
7 pmJuly 18 — Giants of Jazz: Des Moines Big Band
DMACC West Campus
6 pmJuly 20 — Giants of Jazz: Taste of Revival
Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center
6 pmJuly 22 — Scott Smith Quintet
Hoyt Sherman Place
7 pmJuly 24 — Sam Salomone Quartet
Des Moines Botanical Center
6 pmJuly 25 — Kaizer Jazz Quintet
Wesley Acres
6:30 pmJuly 27 — Freestyle
Mid-America Group at Regency West, WDM
11:30 amJuly 27 — Giants of Jazz: The Soul Searchers
Northland General Store, 621 Des Moines Street
7 pmJuly 28 — CJC All Star Band
Railroad Pavilion Park, Historic Valley Junction
4 pmJuly 28 — Tropical Steel
Railroad Pavilion Park, Historic Valley Junction
6 pmJuly 28 — Tony Valdez Large Band
Railroad Pavilion Park, Historic Valley Junction
8 pm
For more information, visit the Metro Arts Alliance Web site.
Guest Writer: Brenda Friedrich is an Iowa-based writer and business
communications consultant. You can also find her blogging at Enroute365.
Sandy Renshaw is Sandy Renshaw is a self-employed communications consultant. You will also find her blogging at Purple Wren.
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[...] Freidrich gives the complete run-down of Jazz in July events at Around Des [...]
Thanks for posting this complete list!
The July 27 event scheduled for Northland General Store has been relocated to the State Historical Building – 6th & E. Locust. The time has been changed, too, I believe, to 6 pm.
This was necessitated by a re-design of the use of space at Northland General. I had a shelf of my photo and other products there for a few months but pulled out at the end of May. Someone who contacted me for an item I had for sale at the store told me that all merchants were moving out. I confirmed this in July when I visited the site, but have no details why.