By MARK MILLER
Thursday, April 14, 2005 Page R2
Toronto -- The Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival continues to play it safe in its programming for 2005.
Toronto's Downtown Jazz swims in the mainstream
The festival unveiled its 19th season yesterday, June 24 to July 3, which balances the mainstream stylings of saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Joshua Redman, trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band with the pop directions of singer-pianists Diana Krall and Dr. John, vocalists Matt Dusk, Madeleine Peyroux and Lhasa de Sela, trumpeter Roy Hargrove's RH Factor, pianist Bugge Wesseltoft and hip-hop duo The Herbaliser.
The festival's other main-stage attractions include the jam band Medeski, Martin & Wood, Algerian singer Rachid Taha and the fusion trio of bassist Stanley Clarke, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and banjo player Bela Fleck.
Downtown Jazz will once again make Nathan Phillips Square its base and employ some 35 other halls, clubs and parks around the city.
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