Performance / Tour News

Johnny Bones and the Palace of Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
August 6, 2008

Johnny Bones and the Palace of Jazz will get the joint jumpin'.

With an 8-piece orchestra that includes trumpets, clarinets, bass lines, and novelty drums and percussion during two free shows at Moody's Bistro & Lounge on Friday, Aug. 8 and Saturday, Aug. 9.

Johnny Bones and the Palace of Jazz will deliver a show at Moody's that feels like stepping back into the musical past while simultaneously listening to a band that is unmistakably part of jazz music's future. ...

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Dane Vannatter Brings New Show "Alone Together: A Tony Bennett Album" to Metropolitan Room

Source: Cromarty & Co.
August 6, 2008

From Tin Pan Alley to Motown, Dane Vannatter will present a new cabaret and jazz show, “Alone Together: A Tony Bennett Album" on four consecutive Saturday evenings in September, beginning September 6th (9:30PM) at the New York hotspot Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~between 5th & 6th Avenues). Directed by Lennie Watts, the evening will feature songs from the Bennett album including “Alone Together," “Poor Butterfly," “It's Magic," and a rarely sung Bart Howard song “Walk in the Country." ...

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Will Sellenraad Quartet at 55 Bar

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 2008

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Jazz Great Freddy Cole to Perform at the OC Pavilion on August 29

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 2008

Award-winning jazz vocalist and brother of Nat King Cole to perform one night only at the OC Pavilion in Santa Ana, near the artist district Santa Ana, CA (PRWEB) August 5, 2008 -- The OC Pavilion is pleased to welcome jazz great Freddy Cole on August 29 at 8 p.m. Doors to the OC Pavilion and Ambrosia Restaurant open at 6 p.m. for pre-show dinner and cocktails. Lionel Frederick Cole was born on October 15, 1931, the youngest of Edward ...

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Spalding Reinterprets Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 2008

23-year-old bassist/vocalist who appeals to young and old coming to area According to some pundits, jazz music is in a constant state of emergency. Many of the music's legends are slowly shuffling off this mortal coil and some of the music's most vocal advocates and highest-profile players often treat jazz as a museum piece, as if nothing interesting or noteworthy happened after the hard bop of the 1960s, or when Miles Davis plugged his trumpet into a wah-wah pedal. But ...

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Dolly Pardon at the Greek

Source: Michael Ricci
August 5, 2008

Parton can compete with any diva, but she sparkles most when she's just herself.

Few musicians embrace the yin-yang interplay of artist and performer as wholeheartedly as Dolly Parton did Sunday night at the Greek Theatre. Having spent most of the last decade in a rewarding return to her Smoky Mountain bluegrass roots with a series of indie-label releases, she's now picking up where she left off in the '80s following her pop-country crossover successes. Much about Sunday's show was ...

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Guitarist Eric Hofbauer Featured in the Boston Herald

Source: Improvised Communications
August 5, 2008

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Vijay Iyer Quartet Investigates a Mutant Jazz Landscape

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2008

The Vijay Iyer Quartet trafficks in a surging, complex, mutant strain of post-bop, steeped in portent and incident. Led by Mr. Iyer, a relentlessly probing pianist, the group relies equally on the exertions of the alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, the bassist Stephan Crump and the drummer Marcus Gilmore. It doesn't sound like any other band on the jazz landscape, as it confirmed at the Jazz Standard on Friday night. Mr. Iyer began the evening's second set by noting that the ...

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