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Sun Valley Jazz Jamboree Video

The setting, The Venues and the Bands

Scenic beauty of the Sun Valley area is featured in this video along with some terrific music artistry and a showcase of the nine venues.  The Sun Valley Inn offers The Limelight Room & The Continental Room. The Sun Valley Lodge has the Sun Room, the Lodge Dining Room, and the Duchin Room. There is the famous Opera House and Satchmo’s. The River Run Lodge. The Indoor Ice Rink. Video from the 2012 Sun Valley Jazz Jamboree provided by Franklin Clay Films.

Appearances by:

  • The Midiri Brothers – “I’m Going Up to Sun Valley” Benny Goodman Style.
  • Big Bang Jazz Band
  • Pear Django
  • Tom Hook
  • Tom Rigney – “The Milk Cow Blues.
  • Bill & Shelley
  • Bill Allred’s Classic Jazz Band
  • Bruce Innes Trio
  • Cornet Chop Suey
  • We Three
  • Meschiya Lake & dem Lil’ Big Horns
  • Glen Crytzer and his Syncopators
  • Blue Street Jazz Band
  • Steve Lucky & the Rhumba Bums
  • Pietr Meijers Quartet with Brady McKay
  • Jerry Krahn Quartet
  • Titan Hot Seven
  • Yve Evans & Danny Coots
  • Night Blooming Jazzmen
  • The Whiffenpoofs from Yale
  • Dance Lessons & Competitions

“It Happens in Sun Valley” Get tickets now for the next one!

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Sun Valley Jazz & Music Festival’s “Grand Finale”

The Sun Valley Jazz & Music Festival’s “Grand Finale” puts 13 of the best acts on stage in a mere 90 minutes, one after the other. The packed Limelight Room at the Sun Valley Inn thoroughly enjoyed the show, and the artists delivered impassioned performances. What a great festival, and a fabulous final show!

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2019 Photo Highlights

Lucy Colt Fuller Photography

Nic Roggeman, Photographer

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2019 Photos

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Special Thanks to:

Lucy Colt Fuller – Photographer

2019 Photos

Jim Gilmore – Photographer

2017 Afterglow Photos

2016 Afterglow Photos

Lynn Redmile – Photographer

2019 & 2018

Nic Roggeman – Photographer

2019 Photos – New photos posted daily during the event!

Richard Osenga, Jr. – Videographer

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2016 Thursday

Lucy Colt Photography

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Creative volunteers dres in the 1920's. Jazz fun all around Sun Valley, ID - Lucy Colt Photography
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Creative volunteers dres in the 1920's. Jazz fun all around Sun Valley, ID - Lucy Colt Photography
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Miss Idaho arrives at the Sun Valley Jazz & Music Festival - Lucy Colt Photography
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Miss Idaho arrives at the Sun Valley Jazz & Music Festival - Lucy Colt Photography
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Miss Idaho arrives at the Sun Valley Jazz & Music Festival - Lucy Colt Photography
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Around town people enjoying Sun Valley Jazz & Music Festival beautiful fall weather - Lucy Colt Photography
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Jazz is not over. Joine us this weekend! - Lucy Colt Photography

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Gator Nation

Gator Nation at Sun Valley Jazz & Music Festival 2016

Bringing the sounds of the swamp to River Run at Sun Valley! Visit www.gatornation.com for more information.

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2016 Wednesday

Lucy Colt Photography

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Jeff & Carol Loehr, Executive Directors - Sun Valley Jazz & Music Festival - Lucy Colt Photography
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Carol & Jeff Loehr, Executive Directors - Sun Valley Jazz & Music Festival - Lucy Colt Photography
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Stephanie Trick &Paolo Alderighi - Lucy Colt Photography
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Mardi Gras Party Fun! - Lucy Colt Photography
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Josh & Emily - Lucy Colt Photography

Nic Roggeman Photography

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2016 Mardi Gras Party

Nic Roggeman Photography

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Jazz is Not for the Faint of Heart – Scat!

Yve Evans Jazz ArtistAs a singer of Jazz, some would say that “scat” is the ultimate.   Ella Fitzgerald, in the early years, found the band she sang with being downsized to be more affordable to clients. (If you don’t already know…the singer is most often first to go) She memorized some (all) of the horn parts and pulled double duty. The consonants used along with open and closed vowels sounded like the horns in the section she was singing.  This later translated to a few songs and then to that spectacular performance where she forgot the lyric…and reverted to what she knew best…the music.  The era was bebop…and scat was fresh.  It only was part and partial to jazz because it was innovative compared to other singers’ delivery.

But I need not remind you that for ANY jazz singer…scat is not the jazz end all.

Jazz has always been a collaboration of heartbeat, a shout and a wail…humans, in a fleeting moment… attempting creation.

In the 21st century, it appears that the singer wants to mimic the instrument…and the lyric; the essence of the song…falls by the wayside.

Jazz sung and unsung delivers what all the music of the world deliver separately….hope, healing, joy, disdain, revenge, love, purity, flight and knowing.

Why the passion?  Jazz is not for the faint of heart! Jazz is by and for people who are unafraid to explore possibilities.

Yve Evans

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Keeping the Jazz Alive!

Sun Valley Jazz Jamboree

Thank you to all who attended the 25th anniversary of the Sun Valley Jazz. It was a wonderful time with many first timers and some that have been with us all 25 years. Our hats are off to you the supporters, sponsors and fans because your appreciation and love for the music keeps the jazz alive!

Tickets are available here.

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Special Thanks to:

  • Lucy Colt Fuller - Photographer
  • Jim Gilmore - Photographer 2017 & 2016
  • Lynn Redmile - Photographer 2019 & 2018
  • Nic Roggeman - Photographer 2019 & 2018
  • Richard Osenga, Jr. - Videographer

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