Performance / Tour News

Jazz-Rock Legend Larry Coryell Pioneered the Form Whose Time Has Come

Source: All About Jazz
September 3, 2008

IN the mid-1960s, jazz-rock was a “scary term," not only for audiences but also for the musicians who played it. “At that time, even the people who were creating that genre like myself, just felt like -- because it had never been done before -- felt it might have a pejorative connotation," says jazz guitar legend Larry Coryell, speaking from his Orlando home. “But it turns out now that jazz-rock has morphed into the definition called 'fusion.' It's everywhere." During ...

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Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra at Lincoln Center in October

Source: All About Jazz
September 3, 2008

The Clayton- Hamilton Jazz Orchestra led by Jeff Hamilton, John and Jeff Clayton will be performing at Jazz at Lincoln Center from 10/23/08 through 10/25/08! With a ticket for this show you also have access to a pre-concert lecture provided by trumpeter, Sean Jones on the music of the big band and its significance in jazz. John and Jeff are currently working on their latest project Brother to Brother through ArtistShare. Jeff brainstormed this unique project which is a collection ...

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Westchester Jazz Orchestra Kicks Off Sixth Season in Irvington

Source: All About Jazz
September 3, 2008

Westchester, NY -- The Westchester Jazz Orchestra has been called a “local" orchestra “in about the same way as, say, the New York or Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras are local." On Saturday, September 20, this world-class big band will begin their sixth season celebrating Hard Bop at 8 PM at the Irvington Town Hall Theater, 85 Main Street, Irvington, NY. Spearheaded by Horace Silver, Nat Adderley, Art Blakey and others, Hard Bop is a hard-driving and bluesy style that developed from ...

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Stamps, Owens to Celebrate CD Release with Concert at the Sheldon

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 3, 2008

Trombonists Brett Stamps and Jim Owens will celebrate the release of their new Victoria Records CD Bad To The Bone with a performance at 7:30 p.m. next Tuesday, September 9 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Stamps and Owens will be joined for the concert by all the musicians who played on the CD, including guitarist Rick Haydon, pianist Reggie Thomas, drummer Miles Vandiver, bassist Zeb Briskovich and fellow trombonists Jim Martin and Cody Henry. Tickets will be available ...

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Chris Botti Concert at Fox Theatre Postponed

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 3, 2008

Via St. Louis Post-Dispatch pop music critic Kevin Johnson's blog The Blender, the news comes that the concert by trumpeter Chris Botti scheduled for Saturday, September 13 at the Fox Theatre has been postponed. The announcement cites “scheduling complications" as the reason for the postponement. But whose schedule was complicated? As of this writing, the Fox Theatre show is still listed on Botti's Web site. The tour dates page there shows him in Leawood, Kansas the previous night, ...

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My Morning Jacket Austin

Source: JamBase
September 3, 2008

My Morning Jacket :: 08.25.08 :: KLRU Studios :: Austin, TX

MMJ :: 08.25 :: ACL Taping :: Austin, TX In 2006, Louisville, Kentucky's My Morning Jacket joined an elite group of musicians when they taped their first appearance on the long-running public television program, Austin City Limits. A little over a week ago, they joined an even more elite group who have appeared on the show more than once.

The fact that they ...

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The Dead to Tour/Back Obama

Source: JamBase
September 3, 2008

The Dead To Tour In 2009 Obama Benefit on October 13

The Dead Word on the Web is that the surviving fellas from The Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, guitarist Bob Weir, and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann are getting back together to tour in April and May of 2009. There are no further details available at this time and no indication who will join the core four to complete the lineup. Past lineups of The Dead ...

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Miss Murgatroid and Petra Haden:hearts and Daggers

Source: JamBase
September 3, 2008

By: Dennis Cook

Haden & Murgatroid whip up quite the flutter & wow on Hearts & Daggers (File Under: Music). That they do so using accordion, violin, viola and exquisite, frequently wordless human voices is quite the feat, made all the more impressive considering one never notices these seeming limitations - a trait both ladies have shown throughout their career, taking misunderstood or maligned elements and making them twinkle with fresh light. Dancing on lithe, classically trained toes, wearing threadbare ...

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