Calendar-Events-Venues

Jazz Calendar
Special Jazz Events
Jazz Venues
Jazz Festivals

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Jazz Calendar
Planning to hear some jazz? Check out the new Madison Jazz Calendar for times, locations, website links, and descriptions.  Another place to check is the old calendar by “Uncle Larry,” but it may become out of date now that he is gone.

Listing your Madison jazz gig or event on the new Madison Jazz Calendar is easy and intuitive. For details on the finer points see the section at the end of this post.

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Special Jazz Events

Jazz at Five
Fridays in August
State St at the Capitol Square
Free
2009 Performers:

• The Francesca Johnson Quartet Aug 5th 5pm
• Mike Frost Project Aug 5th 6:30pm
• Tim Whalen Nonet Aug 12th 5pm
• Leo Sidran’s Bridge to Know Where Aug 12th 6:30 pm
• Seven Steps To Havana Label Aug 19th 5pm
• Jan Wheaton Quintet Aug 26th 5pm
• Richie Cole Aug 26th 6:30pm

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Local Venues

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• The Avenue Bar – Charlie Mears’ Avenue Sizzlers, 6-9pm every Monday
• Basies’s (The Radisson Inn) – jazz duets on weekends
• The Brink Lounge – jazz  once or twice weekly. Reviewed 12/2008
• Cabana Room – jazz jam on Wednesdays 9pm.  Reviewed 12/2008
• Cafe Montmartre – closed
• Capitol Lakes Grand Hall - performance venue of the MMC. Reviewed 11/2008
• Jingles Coliseum Bar - performance venue of the Madison Jazz Society
• Liliana’s Restaurant - jazz Wednesday thru Saturday nights, Sunday brunch
• Louisianne’s Etc – jazz/blues piano Tuesday thru Saturday nights
• Mercury Cafe and Lounge – jazz on Wednesday nights
• The Opus Lounge – Alison Margaret Jazz Quartet, Thursdays 9:00
• Otto’s Restaurant and Bar – jazz outside on summer evenings
• R Place on Park – Rick Flowers trio every Wednesday night
• Restaurant Magnus – jazz most nights. Reviewed 12/2008
• Samba Brazilian Grill - jazz/latin Sunday thru Thursday

Regional Venues

Chicago (now smoke-free)

• The Jazz Showcase reopened summer 2008. The biggest names in jazz in a great listening environment.
• The Green Mill - see many of Chicago’s best jazz musicians.
• The Velvet Lounge

Milwaukee

• Cafe Luna – smoke free jazz, r&b, soul, funk, international
• The Jazz Estate - jazz 5 nights a week

Milwaukee suburbs

Sharon Lynn Wilson Center for the Arts – Brookfield – jazz scheduled periodically

Twisted Olive – Delafield – martini bar with frequent jazz

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Jazz Festivals – Regional

• Stevens Point Jazz Festival – Count Basie Orchestra, February 6, 2009
• Cabin Fever Jazz Series (Lake Forest, Ilinois) – Sunday afternoons February through April
• Capitol City Jazz Jazz Fest – April 24-26, 2009
• Jazz on the Vine (Elkhart Lake) – May 8 – 10, 2009
• Bunny Berigan Jazz Jubilee (Fox Lake) – May 15 – 17, 2009
• Isthmus Jazz Festival - June 4-7, 2009
• Jazz at 5 – wednesdays in August
• Third Ward Jazz Festival (Milwaukee) – early August
• Great River Fest (La Crosse) – August 14-16 2009
• Chicago Jazz Festival – labor day weekend
• Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival (West Bend) – early September
• Fon du Lac Jazz Festival – November