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2019 Photo Highlights

Lucy Colt Fuller Photography

Nic Roggeman, Photographer

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2019 Photos

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Become one of the thousands of jazz fans who have been delighted since 1989! Held mid-October each year in Sun Valley, ID

Sun Valley Jazz
We’re going on 31 years! How many years have YOU We’re going on 31 years! How many years have YOU been attending?

Musicians: Dexter Williams of Cocuzzi Courtet, Yve Evans, and Brandon Laws of the Black Market Trust

Photos: Jim Gilmore
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The Midiri Brothers are always up for a smile! Ph The Midiri Brothers are always up for a smile!

Photo: Jim Gilmore

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🎶 Featuring: Banu Gibson, Professor Cunningham 🎶

Featuring: Banu Gibson, Professor Cunningham & His Old School

Photos: Lynn Redmile and Jim Gilmore

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Happy 4th of July from all of us at the jazz festi Happy 4th of July from all of us at the jazz festival! 

Musicians: The Hot Jazz Collective
Photo: Jim Gilmore
Stuck inside? Learn to jive! Photo: Jim Gilmore # Stuck inside? Learn to jive!
Photo: Jim Gilmore

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Festival throwbacks: The Young Bucs performance at Festival throwbacks: The Young Bucs performance at this fun outdoor venue! 
Photo: Jim Gilmore

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October can’t come fast enough! Feat: Midiri Br October can’t come fast enough! 
Feat: Midiri Brothers Septet 
Photo: @jimztheone 
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Together or apart, we are all one family! This pho Together or apart, we are all one family! This photo was taken during our volunteer luncheon. Volunteers: We appreciate you!

Photo: Lucy Fuller
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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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Boise Singers


Videography by Derek Svennungsen

Boise Singers
Get a load of these a Capella singers from Boise offering a few bars of “Africa” on the Sun Valley Inn’s lawn.

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2016 Thursday

Lucy Colt Photography

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Jazz thanks Sponsors, you are appreciated! Lucy Colt Photography
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Jazz thanks Sponsors, you are appreciated! Lucy Colt Photography
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Jazz thanks Sponsors, you are appreciated! Lucy Colt Photography
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Jazz thanks Sponsors, you are appreciated! Lucy Colt Photography
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Jazz thanks Sponsors, you are appreciated! Lucy Colt Photography
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Jazz thanks Sponsors, you are appreciated! Lucy Colt Photography
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Jazz thanks Sponsors, you are appreciated! Lucy Colt Photography
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Jazz thanks Sponsors, you are appreciated! 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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Jazz volunteers with Carol Loehr, Executive Director - 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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Around town people enjoying Sun Valley Jazz & Music Festival beautiful fall weather - 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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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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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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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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Sue Palmer Takes a Look at Musical and Family History

Sue Palmer & Her Motel Swing Orchestra

Sue Palmer & Her Motel Swing Orchestra

“St. Louis Woman…..with all her diamond rings……” Some of my earliest memories are of hearing strains of W.C. Handy’s “St. Louis Blues” being played by my mother’s very musical family: my Aunt Arlene blowing alto sax, Auntie Sallie’s smoky voice, and Aunt Toot playing the sexy blues on piano.

Sue Palmer Family History of MusicI was lucky enough to have cool musical role models to grow up with. My grandparents, Virgie and P.G.Turner, were born in the late 1880’s, and were both musicians. Virgie taught all her 6 children piano and P.G. was a fiddler who played and called all the square dances in their little town, Chilicothe , Texas. While Grandpa played Turkey in the Straw type tunes, his children were all swing musicians. My mother was the youngest and played drums and percussion. When the family came to town, the primary event, other than eating and drinking, was making music. [br] [br]  [br]

Family history photos – Top Left to Right: Sallie, Jerrie now, Gal Band, Jerrie 1945.

It was assumed that everyone would participate, even if it was just to clap at the end of a song. It wasn’t necessary to be good, just to participate. While I was always encouraged to play, my mother did not really want me to be a professional musician. She thought it was a “hard life.” I think part of this was based on her lack of knowledge of the “life,” and how one would make a living.

Sue Palmer Queen of the Boogie Woogie!Perhaps the most professional of all my aunts and uncle (Uncle Douglas played trumpet), was Auntie Arlene. Arlene Turner migrated to California during World War II, and lived in Hollywood, with her girlfriend, singer Sallie Davis. While playing at gangster Mickey Cohen’s Continental Club , her drummer broke her foot, so she needed an emergency drummer. She ended up using Jerrie Thill, who had recently moved there from Iowa. She and Jerrie later both played with the Ada Leonard All Girl Orchestra, and went on to form a quintet, with Sallie Davis and 2 others, and tour the West Coast as The Biltmore Girls. While my aunts retired from the music business in the ’50’s and died over 20 years ago, Jerrie lived to be over 90 and I was lucky enough to meet her before she died . She filled in lots of the details I didn’t know and provided me countless precious pictures.

Growing up in an atmosphere of music appreciation, I have always associated music with the joys of life, the fun of life. My school friends that came over to the house in that period remember it well, as it was unusual. Probably the fact that there were so many women doing it too, was unusual. I learned to be inclusive and open, encouraging everyone to just play, and try it. I have my family to thank for that. “St. Louis woman, with all her store bought hair……”

Sue Palmer Queen of the Boogie Woogie!

Click here to Enter to Win the Party Favorites CD from Sue Palmer and her Motel Swing Orchestra.

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