Performance / Tour News

Guillermo Klein is Accessible at Newport

Source: All About Jazz
August 12, 2008

A purveyor of complex music rendered immediately accessible, composer and bandleader Guillermo Klein makes his debut at Newport

With his long-running large ensemble Los Guachos, Klein's intuitive, unforced hybrid of big band jazz, Argentinean folk rhythms and the modern classical idiom have won him devotion from many of today's hottest jazz musicians. As crowds trickled into Newport on Sunday morning, Los Guachos led off the final day of festivities with bright, colorful music. Klein drew from throughout his catalog, from ...

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Maria Neckam at 55 Bar

Source: All About Jazz
August 12, 2008

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Upcoming Onaje Allan Gumbs Performances

Source: All About Jazz
August 12, 2008

New York-based pianist, composer, and bandleader Onaje Allan Gumbs will appear in a variety of solo and ensembles settings in Fall 2008. Please see below for a full schedule of events.

August 14 at 8:00 p.m. Onaje Allan Gumbs Trio The Gershwin Hotel 7 East 27th Street 212-545-8000 gershwin.com August 22 from 12:00 p.m.—2:00 p.m. Onaje Allan Gumbs Trio Queens County Supreme Courthouse (on the steps) ...

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Sten Hostfalt & Blaise Siwula @ Stain

Source: All About Jazz
August 12, 2008

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Wayne Shorter Quartet Plays Newport and Montrey Jazz Festivals

Source: All About Jazz
August 10, 2008

One of the most original of all jazz musicians, whether as a tenor and soprano saxophonist or as a composer, Wayne Shorter has always used his own fresh ideas to create new music that is unpredictable but ultimately logical.

Shorter headlined the JVC Newport Jazz Festival Saturday with the Wayne Shorter Quartet. Shorter will perform September 21st at the Montrey Jazz Fesival in California. His Quartet wil play Carnegie Hall December 12th.

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12-Year-Old Saxophonist Gets Time with Brubeck

Source: All About Jazz
August 10, 2008

A gifted Burlington boy will have quite a story to share when he goes back to Har-Bur Middle School in a few weeks. Dakota Austin says his 10-minute performance with Dave Brubeck at the Litchfield Jazz Festival last Saturday seems like a dream. But it wasn't. A serendipitous sequence of events led to the invitation for the young saxophonist. Dakota, 12, was attending a jazz camp on Aug. 2 sponsored by the festival and during a question-and-answer session he mentioned ...

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Portugal's Summer of Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
August 10, 2008

With an impressive line-up of artists from around the world, jazz will be a central feature of Portugal's cultural offering in the summer months, from the northern most region of Minho to the southern tip of the Algarve. This year's highlight will be the 10th annual Angra Jazz festival, in October, performed in the old converted bullring on the beautiful island of Terceira, in the Azores. Multiple Grammy Award winner Herbie Hancock will headline. Angra Jazz 2008 promises to be ...

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Alonso Brito Left Cuba, but It Never Left Him Plays L.A.

Source: Michael Ricci
August 10, 2008

BACK IN L.A.: Alonso Brito and band at King King in Hollywood, where he ends a four- week stay on Tuesday.

The singer-songwriter was 10 when his family moved from Havana. But now, an improbable half-century later, he's back with a debut album steeped in island salsa.

In a world where nothing ever stays the same I am left with only things I cannot change -- Alonso Brito, Co-writer, “Things I Cannot Change"

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