Jacksonville Jazz Festival Collection Materials Jacksonville Jazz Festival Collection
University of North Florida UNF Digital Commons Jacksonville Jazz Festival Collection Materials Jacksonville Jazz Festival Collection 1996 Jacksonville Jazz Festival Jacksonville Magazine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/jacksonville_jazz_text Part of the Music Performance Commons WJCT Jacksonville The 17th Annual WJCT Jacksonville Jazz Festival is internationally recognized · Jazz Festival for featuring world renowned jazz artists as well as for showcasing emerging and Performers local/regional talent. Among the performers for the 1996 event are: Aquarium Rescue Unit Aquarium Rescue Unit is as novel as its name, juxtaposing jazz, rock, funk, blues, Latin, soul, Southern-boogie, bluegrass and avant-garde. And it does so with improvisational prowess and song writing savvy. Rolling Stone gave the group's last release, in a perfectworld, a solid four-star rating, exclaiming, "It rocks, swings, smacks, clangs, walks and runs, this music, with its eyes rolled back in its head." Not surpri singly, this one-of-a kind band has also attracted a growing and loyal cult following. The brainchild of eccentric lead vocalist/ philosopher Col. Bruce Hampton, ARU originated in Georgia in the early 1990s. Its first album, Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit, captured the band live in concert, revealing its pol ished genre-jumping and jamming skills. ARU's second studio release, Mirrors ofEmbarrassment, fo llowed, with Medeski, Martin & Wood eclectic compositions and stunning musicianship. New York's street-jazz trio, Medeski, Martin & Wood, plays a Major personnel changes preceded in a pe1fect world. Citing powerful mix of acoustic jazz and funky hip-hop. Keyboardist ill health due to incessant touring, Hampton left the band, as John Medeski, who plays the Hammond B-3 organ, is the did mandolinist Matt Mundy.
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