Rock Hall Induction Ceremony Returns To Cleveland

Jack at the Rock Hall Museum on April 14th with “the CAR” ( 2012 Aston Martin) that K.C. Jones often promises to give away on Jazz Sunday

The April 14, 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was typically long (nearly 6 hours). I’ve covered four of these ceremonies since 2005 and it's been my experience that the artists introducing the inductees deliver the most insightful and wittiest comments of the evening. Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill of ZZ Top (for Freddie King), Steven Van Zandt (for Small Faces/Faces), Bette Midler (for Laura Nyro) and Smokey Robinson (for the back-up groups of rock legends: The Famous Flames, Crickets, Miracles, etc.) all gave inspired and memorable speeches on behalf of the artists they were inducting. Read more...

The 32nd Annual Detroit Jazz Festival

If it's the Labor Day Weekend, you know where Jack Marchbanks and his better half, Alice Flowers, most likely are: The Detroit Jazz Festival. For the fifth consecutive year, Jack covered this largest free jazz festival in the world for his hometown NPR affiliate, 90.5-FM WCBE Columbus. And, although a nasty thunderstorm forced the cancelation of the Saturday evening concerts on September 3rd, the 2011 edition of Detroit Jazz Festival, or "DJF" as it is affectionately called by Motor City jazz fans, was still a solid success. Read more...

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Jack's 2011 Detroit Jazz Festival Photo Gallery

The presence of pioneering funk/Latin/ Afro-beat band, Mandrill, the group that was playing “world music” before the term was coined, generated palpable excitement at the Detroit Jazz Festival (DJF) during Labor Day Weekend 2011.
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