Sunday, March 01, 2009

The First Annual Disney Jazz Celebration Festival

This is a rather good wrap-up article on the First Annual Disney Jazz Celebration festival at WDW. I at least learned about the great jazz legend Arturo Sandoval being an "honorary citizen of Disney" before he was a citizen of the US.

An "Honorary Citizen of Disney," this was not Sandoval's first appearance at Disney World. Having performed here many times, he boasted that before becoming a citizen of the United States, Disney was kind enough to grant him citizenship first. Explaining that he was glad to be asked to be at this first Jazz Celebration Festival as a part of promoting jazz to younger audiences, he implored the students to keep jazz alive, stating that once jazz "used to be the locomotive [engine] of the train and now it's more like the caboose."


Let's see if Disney can cultivate this event to be as big as the Chicago's Jazz Fest. :)

Zz.

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