Performance / Tour News

James Hunter Confirms NYC Performance with Chris Isaak

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2008

Soul stirring Brit James Hunter returns to New York City on August 20 for a second summer show, this time with Chris Isaak. The show marks the end of a incredible summer for Hunter. His sophomore album, 'The Hard Way, ' debuted at #1 on the Billboard Blues chart and has remained there for six weeks and counting. Recently James made appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (June 9) and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (July 14). The ...

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Alyssa Graham Celebrates "Echo" Release

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2008

Vocalist Alyssa Graham's stunning new album, 'Echo' (Sunnyside) comes out next Tuesday, July 29th. She'll be marking the occasion with an in-store performance and record signing at New York City's Lincoln Triangle Barnes & Noble on August 4th. From “Pictures of You, “ a musical travelogue that traces the arc of a modern day love affair, to “Involved Again, “ a previously unrecorded gem originally written some 50 years ago for jazz legend Billie Holiday, 'Echo' proves Alyssa Graham to ...

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Barbara Morrison Stars as Big Mama Thornton in New Production

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2008

Legendary blues and jazz singer Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton was the first to record Hound Dog, which Elvis Presley later popularized, and she wrote and first recorded one of Janis Joplins biggest hits, Ball and Chain. Howlin Blues & Dirty Dogs, at the Secret Rose Theatre in North Hollywood, Calif., presents her life story in the form of music, dancing, comedy and drama through Aug. 10. Barbara Morrison (pictured) stars. The Theatre Perception Consortium wrote and produced the musical, ...

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Allman Brothers Return

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2008

GREGG RETURNS TO HEALTH BLUES-ROCK-JAZZ JUGGERNAUT RELAUNCHES

ABB by Dino Perucci The Allman Brothers Band will make their triumphant return to the concert stage this summer, with two dozen shows from August 12 through October 11. On the first leg of dates, the group will share the stage with Bob Weir & RatDog, and Phil Lesh & Friends will be on board for the second leg.

The August 12 show in Bethel, NY will mark the first group ...

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Bernstein as a Fount of Fusion

Source: Michael Ricci
July 27, 2008

Elegance without ostentation That would describe the overview of Leonard Bernstein songs that the pianist Bill Charlap and the singer Kurt Elling brought to Bernstein's theater music at the opening program of the 92nd Street Y's Jazz in July series on Tuesday evening. Bernstein, especially in his score for “West Side Story," which dominated the concert, created some of the most operatically ambitious music ever composed for Broadway. Emotional extravagance, swirling urban color, Latin American fireworks -- in ...

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Jordon's Genius Closes out Jazz Fest

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2008

YOU CAN SAY what you want about other jazz artists. But the truth, the absolute truth, is there is nobody like Sheila Jordan. At age 79 (and a half, she meticulously observes), she can still hold a 500-plus audience in pin-drop thrall as she and bassist Cameron Brown did for 90 magical minutes Saturday night in the Cathedral Church of All Saints in Halifax. It was the first of three concerts on the last night of the 2008 Atlantic Jazz ...

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Freddy Cole to Perform at the OC Pavilion on August 29

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2008

The OC Pavilion is pleased to welcome jazz great Freddy Cole on August 29 at 8 PM. Lionel Frederick Cole was born on October 15, 1931, the youngest of Edward and Paulina Nancy Cole's five children. His three elder brothers, Eddie, Ike and Nat (twelve years Freddy's senior) were all musicians. “I started playing piano at five or six," Freddy remembers. “Music was all around me." In the Chicago home of his youth, visitors included Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and ...

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Alejandro Escovedo | 07.16.08 | Atlanta

Source: All About Jazz
July 25, 2008

Words by: David Higdon | Images by: Paul Puckett

Alejandro Escovedo :: 07.16.08 :: Variety Playhouse :: Atlanta, GA

Alejandro Escovedo :: 07.16.08 What a difference a few months can make. When Alejandro Escovedo last visited Atlanta in March, it was at the intimate 185 seat Eddie's Attic, where the duo of Escovedo and talented guitarist David Pulkingham previewed songs from then unreleased Real Animal in a stripped down, acoustic setting. A ...

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