Magic City Jazz Orchestra Lawler, trombonist Charlie Ard, saxophonist Neil McLean, arranger Steve Sample, Sr and pianist Ray Reach. SuperJazz has spawned a number of spin-off groups, such as the Night Flight Big Band and the Magic City Jazz Orchestra. In 1998, Ray Reach, then director of the UAB Jazz Ensemble and founding director of the Magic City Jazz Orchestra, contacted New York saxophonist Lou Marini in order to hire him to be guest artist and clinician for the annual "Weekend of Jazz" festival at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Mr. Marini subsequently came to Birmingham, where he conducted jazz workshops and
Cascais Jazz Festival Coleman's performance began some controversy when during his gig his bassist, Charlie Haden, dedicated their song "Song for Che" to the black liberation movements in Angola and Mozambique, which the authoritarian Estado Novo regime was fighting at that time. Cascais Jazz Festival The Cascais Jazz Festival is an annual jazz music festival held in Cascais, on the Portuguese Riviera. The first Cascais Jazz Festival took place on November 20, 1971, in the Dramático de Cascais pavilion in Portugal, organized by the fado singer João Braga and the jazz critic and specialist Luís Villas-Boas. It was the first international jazz festival