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6 SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 2007 DemocratandChronicle.com DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE ROCHESTER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL THINGS TO DO TODAY Benefits An Evening of Wine and Roses: Benefits Maplewood Neighborhood Association. 6 to 8:30 p.m. June 16. Maple-wood Park, Driving Park and Lake avenues. $30; $25 seniors and association members.

Reservations requested. (585)458-3460. Gregory Kunde Chorale Garage Sale: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 16.

1013 Penf ield Road, Penfield. Free admission. Metro Justice Garage Sale: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 16.

203 Vassar St. Free admission. (585) 325-2560. Strawberry Festival: 5 p.m. June 16.

St. John's Lutheran Church, 800 E. Ridge Road, Irondequoit. $6. (585) EtCetera Documentary: Cards, Letters and Prayers: Director David Schwittek will introduce his video about peace advocate Ron Ring.

7 p.m. June 16. First Unitarian Church of Rochester, 220 S. Winton Road. Free.

(585) 271-9070. Downtown Historical Walking Tour: Call for details and location. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. June 16.

Historical Downtown Walking Tour. $10; $15 for two. (585) 442-8299. Greece Performing Arts Society Notable Garden Tour: Call for locations. 10 a.m.

to 4 p.m. June 16. Greece Performing Arts Society, P.O. Box 300, Greece. $20.

(585) 234-5636. Jewish Heritage Tour: Guided walking tour presented by Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery. 10 a.m. June 16. North Gate House, Mt.

Hope Cemetery, 791 Mt. Hope Ave. $4. (585) 461-3494. Scottsville Antique Roadshow: lto 4 p.m.

June 16. Scottsville Free Library, 28 Main Scottsville. Free admission. Appraisal: $6 for one item or $10 for two items. (585) 889-2023.

Steve Burr: Standup comedy. 8 and I' 4 10:45 p.m. June 16. Comix Cafe, 3450 Winton Place, Brighton. (585) 424-5233.

Festivals Juneteenth Celebration: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. June 16. Susan B. Anthony Square, King and Madison streets.

Free. (585) 454-2680A Maplewood Rose Weekend: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 16. Maplewood Rose Garden, Lake and Driving Park avenues.

Call for details. (585) 428-6770. Strawberry Social: 4 to 7 p.m. June 16. John Knox Presbyterian Church, 3233 West Ridge Road, Greece.

$3.50. (585) 225-6533. Strawberry Social: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 16.

Greece United Methodist Church, 1924 Maiden Lane. Call for details. (585)225-1880. Turkish Art and Folk Festival: Noon to 9 p.m. June 16 and 17.

Turkish Society of Rochester, 677 Beahan Road, Gates. Free admission. (585) 266-1980. Theater Urinetown: 4 and 8:30 p.m. June 16.

Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd. (585) 232-4382. I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change: 8:30 p.m. June 16. Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St.

(585) 325-4370. Nuts and Bolts: Improvisational comedy troupe. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. June 16. UpStage 3, Auditorium Theatre, 885 E.

Main St. $10. (585) 334-8973. Self-Help: The Comedy: 5 and 8 p.m. June 16.

Downstairs Cabaret Theatre Two, 172 W. Main St. (585) 325-4370. Shout! The Mod Musical: 5 and 8:30 p.m. June 16.

Downstairs Cabaret Theatre Center, 540 E. Main St. Discounts available. (585) 325-4370. The Water Coolers: 5 p.m.

June 16. Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. (585) 325-4370. WILL YURMAN staff photographer Catherine Russell had the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd at High Fidelity completely charmed Thursday with her relaxed personality and song choices not to mention her voice. The 2007 Rochester International Jazz Festival ends tonight.

Classy acts make it look easy Getting tickets JEFF SPEVAK STAFF MUSIC CRITIC Just because we've had some octogenarian jazzmen in the house doesn't mean the artists' parking area was filled with Airstream trailers and meatball dinners at 4:30 p.m. Benny Golson on Sunday, Dave Brubeck on Wednesday and now James Moody have been cool for a long time, and they weren't stepping aside CONCERT REVIEWS The sixth annual Rochester International Jazz Festival runs through Saturday. For most shows at the Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs tickets are available through Ticket Express, 885 E. Main and the jazz festival Ticket Shop, corner of East Avenue and Gibbs Street (both only a 1 service charge); and Ticketmaster, (585) 232-1900 or www.ticket-master.com. Club Passes are sold out.

They offer admission, space permitting, to more than 125 shows at State Street Bar Grill (at the Crowne Plaza Hotel), 70 State Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs Max of Eastman Place, 287 E. Main High Fidelity, 170 East The Montage, 50 Chestnut Harro East Ballroom, 155 N. Chestnut Reformation Lutheran Church, 111 N. Chestnut and the Big Tent, Main and Gibbs streets. If available, single tickets for Club Pass locations are Admission is free at three outdoor stages Jazz Street Stage, Gibbs Street and East Avenue; East Avenue and Chestnut Street; and East Avenue and Alexander Street and six locations in the Museum Gallery Series: the Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University George Eastman House, 900 East Rochester Museum Science Center, 657 East Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Square; Bausch Lomb Public Library, 115 South Ave; and the Sam Patch canal packet boat, on the Genesee River (launches at Corn Hill Landing on Exchange Boulevard).

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Or bellow his version of "Pennies From Heaven." As a crooner, Moody sings like a sax, with plenty of bleating. But everyone's having a good time, and this miraculously blessed jazz fest both in surprising discoveries and the weather rolled smoothly through Day Seven. Latin bones Trombones have been highly visible at this year's fest with Bonerama and Robin Eubanks, but the founder of the Latin ill FMiiwfUO'jri KJ fNMNQOif I Uliuii 1 Mill Side of Miles Davis, Conrad Herwig, was simply mind-blowing. Herwig pointed out that the group was not only about reinterpreting Davis, but also John Coltrane (that Latin Side was nominated for a Grammy) and Wayne Shorter (the next Latin Side, represented here with But for another full house at the Harro East, Herwig chose to turn a piece from Davis' Kind of Blue, Bill Evans' "Flamenco Sketches," into a full-blown Cuban workout. Likewise Kind of Blue's "So with the familiar horn riff (sax, trumpet and trombone here) backed by an unexpected Latin rhythm.

The chore of interpreting Davis' trumpet fell to Mike Rodriguez, who didn't bother copying Davis' tone, but did quite well as his own man. If Rodriguez looked familiar, you saw him Wednesday at Montage with the outrageously entertaining Matt Wilson Arts Crafts. Cat fever High Fidelity was shoulder-to-shoulder from the stage to the exits, and the body heat built the room into a slow sauna, yet few people moved for an hour. Catherine Russell is a late bloomer, having just released her first album at age 50, but she might have won the festival's Rookie of the Year award with a relaxed, almost giddy personality, perfect song choices, a huge smile and an even bigger voice. "This is not a polished show, y'all," Russell said.

"It's not slick, not pretentious." Indeed, when she forgot the words to a Willie Dixon song, she recovered charmingly, and the crowd loved her for it. Russell is Ella Fitzgerald, not with a big voice, but in all its depth, and she uses it to revive a catalog of lost souls. She is Alberta Hunter reincarnated, channeling Sam Cooke's "Put Me Down Easy" and Bessie Smith. When Russell sang, "My man's an undertaker, and he's Congo FROM PAGE 1C that literally got some people up to dance. Festival promoters announced before the show that Odadaa's Addy would not per- 'ONCE may well be the best music film of our generation." FOB MORE HAVE REVIEWS, LOG ON TO www.OnceinaLifetimeReviews.com PITTSFORD PLAZA 9 MONROE AVE.

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She delivered on the amusing sexual innuendo of Pearl Bailey's "I'm Lazy, That's All." And when she was done, everyone in the audience wanted to hug her, but settled for a rush to the merchandise table, where all 55 copies of her album were immediately sold. The songs are a time machine, for sure. Yet for a reminder of Russell's show you need only to have traveled back 24 hours. In spirit and character, Russell was like Bettye LaVette the previous night at the Harro, form because of illness, but nothing was said on stage. And nothing seemed to be missing.

Congo Square, of course, is the latest in an impressive series of large suites by Marsalis, and, to these ears is the most entertaining, accessible and tuneful to date. (I prefer it to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Blood on the Fields.) It may be that Congo Square reflects the strong influence of the compositions and arrangements of Duke Ellington, especially when he was wearing his "big suite" hat. The performances were stun- A PIE IN THE or visit vww.cityofrochester.gov BotMrt J. Dufly, Mayor City of RoehMtir, NY one ci ty Your New Kitchen Awaits ning Thursday night, from a piercing trumpet solo by Ryan Kisor, to the lovely clarinet work by Victor Goines, to a section by the Odadaa conga players that generated a standing ovation. Kudos go to bassist Carlos Henriquez, who built many of the rhythmic bridges between the African drummers and the LCJO.

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