Performance / Tour News

Weasel Walter East Coast Tour

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

Notorious free music drummer Weasel Walter mounts another full-scale assault on the East Coast during September 2008 featuring help from area luminaries such as trumpeter Peter Evans, guitarist Mary Halvorson, reedman Paul Flaherty and drummer Marc Edwards. Of particular note will be three performances by the Walter/Halvorson/Evans trio, promising virtuoso interplay with a touch of bloodyminded humor. Walter and Halvorson first teamed up last year for the recording of the “Opulence" CD release (2008, ugEXPLODE Records) while Evans and Walter ...

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The Boildermaker Jazz Band Free Concert at Waterside Plaza

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

On Wednesday August 6, The Boilermaker Jazz Band performs a free outdoor concert from 7-9PM at Waterside Plaza. Enjoy spectacular waterfront views and plenty of seating. Reasonably-priced onsite parking and dining also available. PHONE: 212-340-4227 The Boilermaker Jazz Band is an ecstatically fun band performing authentic hot jazz and swing. Led by Paul Cosentino on an antique Albert system clarinet, this acclaimed group serves up swinging renditions of jazz classics and rarities through superb instrumentals and heartfelt vocals. The group ...

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Sonya Kitchell and the Slip Tour

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

Sonya Kitchell and The Slip to Create a Storm this Fall

Sonya Kitchell Sonya Kitchell will hit the road this fall on a headlining U.S. tour with rock trio The Slip as her backing band. Fresh from a summer world tour as the featured vocalist in Herbie Hancock's band, the 19-year-old singer, songwriter and guitarist will be touring behind her new album This Storm, out September 2 on Decca/Velour, on which The Slip's Andrew and Brad Barr perform. With the ...

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Ryan Adams Adds Dates

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Add Dates

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals by Josh Miller In anticipation of the tentative fall release of their new album, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals have announced an additional run of headline dates kicking off September 25 in Schenectady NY. On-sale information will be posted on www.ryan-adams.com as it becomes available.

The new dates expand on the current Cardinals itinerary, which commences August 23 at The Fillmore in San Francisco and includes a run ...

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Randy Newman at Largo

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

Randy Newman (Largo at the Coronet; 280 capacity; $60)

Band: Randy Newman, Mitchell Froom, Joey Waronker, Bob Glaub, George Doering.

Randy Newman's show at Largo kicked off with the title track of “Harps and Angels," which recounts a near-death experience (it wasn't his time, God tells him, just a clerical error), but both the concert and the wonderful new album (due Aug. 5 on Nonesuch) show Newman to be at the height of his powers, writing some of ...

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Steely Dan Come to Southern Cal

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

Steely Dan soon returns to Southern California, playing Honda Center in Anaheim on Aug. 4.

Band: Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, Jon Herington, Keith Carlock, Freddie Washington, Jeff Young, Walt Weiskopf, Michael Leonhart, Jim Pugh, Roger Rosenberg, Tawatha Agee, Cindy Mizelle, Catherine Russell.

Only two acts this decade have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and also won one of the three major Grammy Awards. U2 is one, Steely Dan the other. The latter's Grammy win -- ...

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Anat Cohen Impressive at Hollywood and Highland

Source: Michael Ricci
July 31, 2008

Anat Cohen gifted Israeli-born horn player makes further inroads through the boys' club wall with her performance at Hollywood and Highland.

Israel-born Anat Cohen's Southland debut at Hollywood and Highland on Tuesday night was an impressive display of the qualities that last year garnered her awards from Down Beat and the Jazz Journalists Assn. -- and it also offered hope that a female horn player, fluent on clarinet and alto, tenor and soprano saxophones, will finally eradicate the outmoded notion ...

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Mike Lorenz Quartet @ Puck Live

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

Mike Lorenz will be performing at Puck in Doylestown on July 31, 2008. Lorenz is a jazz guitarist from Lehigh Valley, PA. Playing professionally since the age of 19, Mike has performed with such musicians as Rufus Reid, George Young, Bud Shank, Jim Pugh, Ravi Coltrane, Neil Wetzel, Paul Rostock and Pete Colangelo. Mike has performed at Chris' Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia, PA and at Bethlehem's Musikfest. He is the newest member of the Tony Gairo/Gary Rissmiller Jazz Orchestra, a ...

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