Previous Artists
The Festival has presented a range of star names over the years, including Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman, Van Morrison, Jamie Cullum, Jools Holland, Eartha Kitt (in her last ever UK performance), Chick Corea, Maceo Parker, John Scofield, Gilles Peterson, the BBC Big Band, Dave Holland, Mr Scruff, Charles Lloyd, Silje Nergaard, Guillemots, Madeleine Peyroux, The Cinematic Orchestra, Curtis Stigers, The Nextmen, Bennie Maupin, Marti Pellow, Ben Allison, Michael Brecker, Dianne Reeves, The Claudia Quintet, Courtney Pine, Zoe Rahman, Cassandra Wilson, Benny Golson, Joe Zawinul, Adrian Adlam, and Ray Brown.
In previous years, the festival has also featured an artist in residence, and these have included:
- 2004 John Taylor
- 2005 Bobby Previte
- 2006 Ken Vandermark
- 2007 Bob Brookmeyer
Read more about this topic: Cheltenham Jazz Festival
Famous quotes containing the words previous and/or artists:
“New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)