Performance / Tour News

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Fall Tour

Source: All About Jazz
July 23, 2008

JACOB FRED JAZZ ODYSSEY FALL TOUR Including Rocks Off Boat Cruise, Newport Jazz Festival and Lincoln Center's “Keep A Light In The Window: An Homage To Joel Dorn"

JFJO After headlining the My Morning Jacket Radio City Music Hall after-show party in June at Sullivan Hall, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey are returning to New York City on Thursday, August 7 for a Rocks Off Boat Cruise performance. Immediately following that, they'll head north for their first ...

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McCartney Plays Free Show in Quebec

Source: All About Jazz
July 22, 2008

Paul McCartney churned out a Beatles-laden song list to a pumped-up crowd gathered Sunday for a FREE concert as part of Quebec City's 400th anniversary celebration.

McCartney opened the show with the Wings song Jet after which he greeted the crowd in French. The audience erupted and the band then started into the Beatles' 1965 classic Drive My Car. “C'est ma premiere visite a Quebec, and it's a great place," McCartney said, saying it was his first time there and ...

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Bassist Buddy Catlett, a Seattle Native, Brings Jazz Home

Source: All About Jazz
July 21, 2008

He's performed with the greats, like Frank, Ella and Louis Armstrong During the 1940s, bassist George James “Buddy" Catlett roamed the streets of Seattle as a teenager, performing with such future luminaries as trumpeter Quincy Jones and pianist Ray Charles. “Seattle was one of the hottest cities in America," Jones said, adding that he and Catlett often performed three clubs a night together, finishing up around 5:30 a.m. and attending Garfield High School a few hours later. Over the course ...

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Music: Re-Gifting

Source: All About Jazz
July 21, 2008

The Minneapolis artistic community honors Carei Thomas with an event as multifaceted and overflowing as the poet/pianist himself. It was while lying in a hospital bed in the mid-1990s, his body racked by pain and paralysis, that jazz pianist Carei Thomas came up with the idea of the Gift Shop. Besieged by Guillain-Barr syndrome -- created by his immune system attacking his peripheral nervous system -- Thomas' mind searched for succor, and found it in the dream of a community ...

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James McMurtry Melds Literature and Lyrics

Source: Michael Ricci
July 21, 2008

The singer-songwriter plays the Troubadour on Tuesday and says his music has always been character-driven.

For a long time, James McMurtry was skeptical of the whole notion that songs could be described as literary. He figured it was just a label that journalists stuck on him because his father was the novelist Larry McMurtry, author of “Lonesome Dove" and “The Last Picture Show." But when the younger McMurtry heard his fellow Texan Steve Earle describe songs as “literature you can ...

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Yardbirds Jeff Beck and Nigel Kennedy Make Jazz at Albert Hall

Source: All About Jazz
July 20, 2008

Jeff Beck, the rock guitarist, was making a surprise appearance at the Proms last night -- and creating a piece of musical history. Beck, 64, who made his name with the Yardbirds in the 1960s, was due to play a guitar solo during a late-night concert of jazz and blues organised by Nigel Kennedy, the violinist. The two men have got to know each other over the past few months through a mutual love of jazz. Kennedy, best known for ...

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Beautiful Young Ladies in Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
July 20, 2008

Rome Neal's Banana Puddin' Jazz presents BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADIES IN JAZZ Featuring Jazz Vocalists Julia Christgau, Rahimah Karim, Kavita S. Shah, Ashley Lorelle, Jacinda Nicole With Musicians: Kelly Nagata Powers (Piano), Maiko Ono (drums), Tsugawa Kuriko (bass) Megumi Sanihashi(violin) SATURDAY, AUG 2 @ 9PM $15 FOLLOWED BY A JAZZ JAM AND OPEN MIC AND COMPLIMENTARY BANANA PUDDIN' FOR ALL RSVP NOW! @ 212-465-3167 or [email protected] at the world famous NUYORICAN ...

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Dave Allen Quartet - July 22nd at 55 Bar, NYC

Source: All About Jazz
July 20, 2008

The Dave Allen Quartet

Drew Gress - bass Nasheet Waits - drums John O'Gallagher - sax Dave Allen - guitar

Live at 55 Bar July 22nd from 10pm-1am Original adventurous music from Real and Imagined

“Dave Allen is one of a number of spitfire jazz guitarists raising the bar on that ever- popular instrument. But Allen offers more than battle-ready chops--his Untold Stories and Real and Imagined are about original ...

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