Arts and Jazz Festival

Name: Arts and Jazz Festival
Start: 2025-08-22T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 31806 Lakeview Dr, Selbyville, DE, United States, Delaware 19975

Schedule

Fri, 22 Aug, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

31806 Lakeview Dr, Selbyville, DE, United States, Delaware 19975 | Selbyville, DE

Admission: Free
An evening not to be missed at Freeman Arts Pavilion! Stroll the green and enjoy previewing the artwork of Delmarva’s finest visual artists. Pull up a chair and groove to some of the most talented jazz artists to ever play at the shore.
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Jazz performers include:
JOE BAIONE
Joe Baione is an internationally acclaimed jazz vibraphonist and leader of The Joe Baione Vibraphone Experience, captivating audiences with his energetic performances and deep musicality. Known for blending hard-swinging jazz with infectious rhythms, Joe’s music brings a fresh, vibrant voice to the vibraphone.

His latest album, Vibe Check, is Jazz Week chart-bound, showcasing his signature style and mastery of the instrument. Featuring standout tracks like “Faith Is My Destiny,” “Superhero,” and “Hot Mama” the album delivers an exciting mix of swing, Latin, and groove-based jazz.

What They’re Saying About Vibe Check
• “With Vibe Check, Baione proves himself not only as a master vibraphonist but also as a storyteller, weaving together personal history, familial connection, and a passion for jazz into a cohesive and captivating album.” – Kyle Simpler, All About Jazz
• “Vibraphonist extraordinaire Joe Baione unveils an amazing and robust session of boppish swinging jazz in the finest tradition of the straight-ahead style.” – Edward Blanco, WDNA (Miami)
• “With the release of Vibe Check, Joe Baione is showing the jazz world that there is a ‘new’ major vibraphonist on the scene.” – Scott Yanow, Jazz Journalist/Historian
• “The jazz world could do well with more music played with a wink, a nod, and a big smile. That’s why Joe Baione passes this Vibe Check.” – Paul Abella, WDCB.org
• “Joe, you have made your imagination the theater of your mind concerning your playing and composing.” – Benny Golson

JAZZY BLU
Jazzy Blu is one of the leading jazz and R&B bands in the Washington metropolitan area. The band produces the melodic sounds of smooth jazz, neo-soul, and R&B, while blending the influences of funk, jazz, R&B, neo-soul, blues, rock, and alternative music. They create a groove-filled emotional roller coaster that takes you through an array of themes, moods, and experiences.
Jazzy Blu has entertained audiences everywhere from small lounges to large theaters. They have performed at various venues across the United States, from sold-out crowds at the historic Washington, D.C. landmark Blues Alley, to the infamous Kennedy Center, Lincoln Theatre, and Howard Theatre.

Jazzy Blu has both opened for and shared the stage with notable and Grammy Award-winning artists such as Boys to Men, Brian McKnight, Ohio Players, The Whispers, Raheem Devaughn, The O'Jays, Jon B, Roy Ayers, and Tank. Whether preparing an audience for a sold-out performance of the critically acclaimed Broadway musical, The Color Purple, or opening for the eight-time Grammy Award-winning Mary J. Blige, Jazzy Blu is “a band for every occasion.”

THE LAO TIZER BAND
Colorado-bred, LA-based keyboardist Lao Tizer embodies what it means to be a 21st-century musician inhabiting the jazz sphere that being one who embraces musical diversity and hasno fear of crossing boundaries.But Tizer also happens to come by this naturally. As the self-described “child of East Coast Jewish hippies,” he was exposed to and was influenced by his parents' extensive musical tastesfrom a young age:“My dad had a huge music collection. He loved classical music and had all this world music Ravi Shankar, R. Carlos Nakai, music of the Sufis plus my parents were boomers, so thatbrought in all the Buddy Holly, Sam Cooke, Elvis, Janis Joplin, and Motown. The Temptationswere my favorite band as a kid. So,I basically grew up with everything but jazz, which I didn’treally discover until I was about 16. ”It was a couple of seemingly random selections from the Columbia House mail-order club thatturned him toward a new and lasting musical direction.”It was buy one, get twelve free, right? So I ordered Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue and Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux. Then one Sunday morning, it all just kind of hit me. To a lot of people trained in the classical tradition, jazz sounds like it breaks all kinds of rules, but I just heard there was a whole other world to explore there.”From there, Tizer hit the ground running, applying his classical piano skills to jazz and releasinghis first self-produced solo keyboard albums while still in high school. After graduating from Boulder High,Tizer moved to LA and studied with legendary piano guru Terry Trotter for about two years, forgoing formal music education.“Instead of going to music school, I just got my butt kicked on the bandstand. I was alwaysworking with musicians who were older and more experienced. School’s great but there’s nobetter way to grow than playing with people who are going to push you to grow. I was so green,man. Learning to play in a band concept playing in good time with a rhythm section–was one of the most challenging things, coming from being a solo pianist. But his approach and talents served him well. At 19, he formed and led the first band under hisown name, taking indirect inspiration from another iconic jazz entity. “When I got into listening to The Pat Metheny Group in the late ‘90s, they had that “formula” that definitely spoke to me great, through-composed music with a lot of room for improvisation. That’s the formula that I love.” In the ensuing years and through various incarnations, The Lao Tizer Band has flown by thatdirectional compass while infusing the bespoke influences and experiences that inform Tizer’smusical worldview.