This Dr. John Lineup Only at Tanglewood

[dawn singh]

This Dr. John Lineup Is Only at Tanglewood

July 21, 2006

While it seems Dr. John has performed at almost every jazz festival on the planet this year, no performance has been like his upcoming show at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival. In celebration of his new CD, “Mercernary,” the music of Johnny Mercer, Dr. John will perform material from the CD with Irma Thomas, Ann Hampton Callaway and John Pizzarelli.

A special horn section for this show will include Jeremy Pelt, trumpet, Howard Johnson, baritone saxophone, and Craig Handy, tenor saxophone.

Fred Taylor, Artistic Director of the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, explains how the show came together:

“I ran into Ed Girard and Danny Kapilian at the APAP conference in New York last January and they were talking about the new Dr. John album of Johnny Mercer material. We thought it would be interesting to put something together for Tanglewood. That’s how it all got started,” says Taylor.

“We wanted to have special guests who could deliver the material appropriately with Dr. John’s version, and create an all-star event with a special horn section. We ended up with the young, brilliant Jeremy Pelt on trumpet, Craig Handy, a wonderful standards player on tenor sax, and the legendary Howard Johnson on baritone sax. We kept gathering the pieces together, added Dr. John’s band and the interaction with different singers and came up with a truly unique show.”

Dr. John and Special Guests will be at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival Saturday, September 2, at 8:00 pm following Wynton Marsalis. Tickets are $22-75 and may be purchased by calling SymphonyCharge at 888-266-1200 or online at www.tanglewoodjazzfestival.org.

For a complete lineup and ticket prices, visit the website at www.tanglewoodjazzfestival.org. Other headliners include Elvis Costello, Marian McPartland, a rare U.S. performance by Dave Brubeck and a 22-piece string symphonette for his Chamber Program, the Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band led by Slyde Hampton, the Big Three Palladium Orchestra, the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, the John Stetch Trio, Rachael Price, the Warren Wolf Quartet, Taylor Eigsti and Julian Lage, and Syncopation.

For more information, contact Dawn Singh at 617-395-7743 or 857-544-0739 or dawn@dawnsinghpublicity.com