Interviews with Deana Martin, Tower of Power, for this weekend's Jazz Festival

Don't worry that you inadvertently missed the annual Salt Lake Jazz Festival, which in the past took over Washington Square during the height of summer.

The festival showcasing local and nationally touring jazz musicians, now in its 12th year, has gone through two moves this year, said Jerry Floor, festival director and cofounder with former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson.

The festival has moved to the Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day weekend, with educational clinics at the University of Utah on Saturday, and afternoon and evening performances on Sunday. In a cost-cutting move, the festival's performance day will be at the Gallivan Center instead of the park around City Hall. The Gallivan Center was $22,000 cheaper than holding it at Washington Square, Floor said.

Headliners are Deana Martin, the daughter of the late, great Dean Martin, and the Oakland-based Tower of Power, celebrating more than 40 years of horn-heavy R&B.

For this performance, Martin will be reunited with Vincent Falcone, former music director for her father's Rat Park comrade Frank Sinatra. Falcone will conduct the Salt Lake City Jazz Orchestra during Martin's performance of her father's most well-known songs. "I've known Vinny for a very long time," she said from her home in Branson, Mo., where she can also see family friend Andy Williams' home across the golf course. "Any place I go, if I am with Vinny, I know he has my back," she said.

Besides being on the road 280 days a year to perform, she is working with actors Bonnie Hunt and Joe Mantegna on adapting her 2005 memoir Memories Are Made of This into a film.

Martin already has ideas about who might portray her in the movie. When she was performing at the legendary Feinstein's at Loews Regency in New York City last year, Martin talked to the crowd about the film. If she had her choice, she told the crowd, she would tap Jennifer Love Hewitt. All of sudden, from the back of the venue, a voice yelled, "I'll do it!" Coincidentally, Hewitt was in the audience.

After Martin's performance, Tower of Power will close out the night on one of the band's more than 200 days away from home. When band founder Emilio Castillo moved from Detroit to the Bay Area when he was 11, he turned to the first friend he found there: the radio, playing some of the greatest songs to come out of Motown.

He received a tenor saxophone when he was a teenager. "From the day I got an instrument, I formed a band that day," he said. "When I say my life changed, I mean it. I was obsessed with the band. It became the central point of my life."

The band has been around for 44 years, with many lineup changes, but Castillo's tenure as bandleader has remained constant. The band continues to be the gold standard of its genre, from time spent as visionary promoter Bill Graham's favorite band to opening for the Dave Matthews Band earlier this year. "If you're into this type of thing, we are the thing," Castillo said.

2012 Salt Lake City Jazz Festival When • Saturday, Sept. 1Where • Gardner Hall, 1375 Presidents Circle, University of Utah campus, Salt Lake CityAdmission • FreeSaturday schedule9 a.m. • "Playing Together for Maximum Performance," Westminster College Faculty Quartet9 a.m. • "Troubleshooting the Big Band Rhythm Section," Jay Lawrence, Denson Angulo, Ken Green, Ira Nepus10 a.m. • "From Louis Armstrong to Paul McCartney," Ira Nepus10 a.m. • "From Buddy Rich to Hollywood," Chuck Findley11 a.m. • "Compositional Approaches: Conceptual vs. Technical," Russell Schmidt11 a.m. • "Improvisation — In the Key of Rhythm," Greg Floor, Vincent Falcone1:15 p.m. • Salt Lake City Jazz Orchestra performance with Deana Martin and othersNote • All attendees receive $5 voucher for discounted admission to Sunday's events

When • Sunday, Sept. 2Where • Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main St., Salt Lake CityAdmission • $16 Sunday schedule1 p.m. • The Hot Club of Zion2 p.m. • Kathy Kosins with the Salt Lake City Jazz Orchestra3:30 p.m. • Redtet — University of Utah Faculty Jazz Group4:30 p.m. • Dave Hall & Friends5 p.m. • Salt Lake City Jazz Orchestra with Emilee Floor, Churck Findley, Ira Nepus, Greg Floor and more6:30 p.m. • The Drones7:30 p.m. • Emilee Floor8:30 p.m. • Deana Martin with Salt Lake City Jazz Orchestra directed by Vincent Falcone9:30 p.m. • Tower of Power