10th Edition · Cala Gonone, Golfo di Orosei
Cala Gonone
Cala Gonone
Jazz Festival 1997
Line-up of the 10th Cala Gonone Jazz Festival (1997). Venues: P. Ticca Amphitheatre. Featured artists: Dee Dee Bridgewater, Don Byron, Don Moye and Herbie Hancock.
The line-up day by day
P. Ticca Amphitheatre
Programme — Day by Day
Tuesday 29 JulyP. Ticca Amphitheatre9:30 pm
Dee Dee Bridgewater (vocals), André Ceccarelli (drums), Thomas Bramerie (double bass), Thierry Eliez (piano)
A jazz singer and actress who grew up between Memphis and Michigan, she began her professional career in the early 1970s as the singer of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. In 1975 she won a Tony Award for the musical “The Wiz”. Artist profile →
Wednesday 30 JulyP. Ticca Amphitheatre9:30 pm
Don Byron (clarinet), Uri Caine (piano), Steve Alcott (double bass), Ben Perowsky (drums), Bob DeBellis (saxophone), James Zollar (trumpet), Charles Lewis (trumpet)
A native New Yorker, he started on the clarinet as a child and studied at the New England Conservatory. His path is unusually wide-ranging: klezmer, avant-garde jazz, classical music and funk. Artist profile →
Thursday 31 JulyP. Ticca Amphitheatre9:30 pm
Famoudou Don Moye (percussion, drums, vocals), Enoch Williamson (percussion, vocals), Selah Allen (percussion, vocals), Meshack Silas (percussion, vocals), Joel Brandon (flute), Ari Brown (saxophone, piano), Herb Walker (guitar), Vachon Johnson (double bass)
An American percussionist born in Rochester, New York, Famoudou Don Moye studied percussion at Wayne State University in Detroit. Artist profile →
Friday 1 AugustP. Ticca Amphitheatre9:30 pm
Herbie Hancock (piano), Wayne Shorter (saxophone)
A child prodigy from Chicago, at eleven he performed a Mozart concerto with the Chicago Symphony. In 1963 he joined Miles Davis's quintet, and in the 1970s went on to explore fusion, funk and electronics. Artist profile →
Sources & notes
The festival is organised by the cultural association L’Intermezzo (Nuoro), which also directs its artistic programme.Festival website: calagononejazzfestival.com
Programme taken from calagononejazzfestival.com · official artist photos are not reproduced for copyright reasons; see the festival website.
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