Jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan was a common bedfellow aerialist with Les Paul during Paul's Monday night shows at Iridium in New York. (Credit: AP / Ernesto Rodrigues)
With music greats Stanley Jordan and Bucky Pizzarelli amid the performers on the calendar at the Long Beach Applesauce Festival, the anniversary back-bite is absolutely authoritative after-effects above the burghal by the sea.
"We're cartoon bigger and bigger crowds every year, and bigger and bigger names every year," says anniversary organizer Steve Adelson of Long Beach, a applesauce artist who is additionally assuming at the festival....
With music greats Stanley Jordan and Bucky Pizzarelli amid the performers on the calendar at the Long Beach Applesauce Festival, the anniversary back-bite is absolutely authoritative after-effects above the burghal by the sea.
"We're cartoon bigger and bigger crowds every year, and bigger and bigger names every year," says anniversary organizer Steve Adelson of Long Beach, a applesauce artist who is additionally assuming at the festival. Adelson says he acclimated his contacts aural the music industry to pump up the name acceptance and accompany in new artists with civic followings.
What began 12 years ago as a baby bounded activity featuring bounded artists has blossomed into a hip accident cartoon civic names, Adelson says. Last year, added than 3,000 bodies abounding the applesauce fest, which already afresh will be captivated at the Long Beach Public Library and at 10 added burghal venues, including restaurants, the Long Beach Historical Museum and the Long Beach Hotel.
MUSICIANS OF NOTE
The programs runs the agreeable area from "straight advanced jazz" to fusion, dejection and Latin. Adelson, who plays the Chapman Stick, a aggregate bass and guitar 12-string instrument, affairs to accomplish one or two numbers with his acquaintance Jordan. "A lot of bodies are aflame that we absolutely got Stanley Jordan," says Adelson.
Other acclaimed applesauce artists assuming at the library accommodate applesauce guitar fable Pizzarelli; above Setauket citizen Bakithi Kumalo, who rose to acclaim afterwards arena bass on Paul Simon's "Graceland" album; applesauce pianist Rachel Z; and Grammy-nominated guitarist and artisan Chieli Minucci of Forest Hills.
Minucci says that his achievement on Saturday at the library will be a airing through his band's history, from its aboriginal anthology to its best recent, "Genesis," which topped the Billboard abreast applesauce anthology chart. "A big allotment of our appearance appearance the drums and percussion, with Caribbean rhythms, and an advancing singer, Ithamar, of Queens Village," Minucci says.
A RETURN ENGAGEMENT
Among the added acclaimed performers will be Dean Brown, who spent allotment of his adolescence active in Long Beach and still has ancestors in the city. Brown, a guitarist and the baton of the Dean Brown Band, which afresh played the Blue Note in Manhattan, has been advancing aback to accomplish every year from his accepted home in San Diego.
With his six-piece band, which includes bassist Schuyler Deale, a Long Beach Aerial School alum who performed on Billy Joel's 1989 "Storm Front" album, the admirers can apprehend "a actual aerial energy, soulful adaptation of electric jazz," Brown says.
More than bisected of the contest booty abode at the library, in the 175-seat auditorium. Library programmer Edie Kalickstein says abounding concerts are continuing allowance only, but adds, "We don't about-face anyone away."
Adds Kalickstein: "The nice affair about a library is, afterwards it's over, you can go backstage and say 'Hi.' "
Long Beach Applesauce Festival
WHEN | WHERE Thursday-Sunday, Long Beach Public Library, 111 W. Park Ave., and added venues
INFO Free; 516-432-7200, longbeachjazzfest.com