Performance / Tour News

Neil Young Covers A Day in the Life

Source: All About Jazz
June 30, 2008

Neil Young Adds “A Day in the Life" Cover to European Shows

A month after Paul McCartney performed “A Day in the Life" for the first time since the original studio recording 41 years ago, Neil Young has begun performing the Beatles song as the final encore on his summer European tour. Be warned, the version captured on YouTube is a super shakey, though the sound is quite listenable. Who do you think did it better?

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The Marimba Makes Itself Heard

Source: Michael Ricci
June 30, 2008

The Marimba, Rich and Warm, Makes Itself Heard

Nancy Zeltsman, who has been playing the marimba since the 1970s and in 2001 founded the Zeltsman Marimba Festival.

“THE marimba is coming of age right now, and you can't throw a dead cat without hitting a marimba concert.They are now beautiful-sounding, resonant, warm, rich things, There was a time 25 years ago when the marimba and the xylophone were different but not that different. Both had a kind of brittle sound. ...

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Derek Trucks/Soul Stew Update

Source: All About Jazz
June 30, 2008

NEW ALBUM IN THE WORKS FOLLOWING BUSY SUMMER OF LIVE DATES

Derek Trucks Band A recent note from the Derek Trucks Band confirms that a new studio album is in “full swing." The band carved time out of their spring tour schedule to write and record at Trucks' new home studio, which was completed in January his brother David and tech extraordinaire Bobby Tis. With the help of engineers Bobby and Marty Wall, the recording process has reportedly ...

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Chris Williams Performs at First Annual Ambrosia Wine Festival

Source: All About Jazz
June 30, 2008

The First Annual Ambrosia Wine Fest promises to be Orange County's premier Wine Event. Hosted by the Ambrosia Restaurant in Association with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and The Bacchus Society, the event will take place on the afternoon of Saturday, July 19th, 2008 The Wine Fest will be held within the opulent surroundings of The OC Pavilion situated just south of the 5 freeway in uptown Santa Ana. The event will feature over fifty prestigious Wineries from around the ...

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Tom Waits Dazzles with Glitter

Source: All About Jazz
June 29, 2008

What Ever Waits is Selling, his Unifyingly Strange Fan base is Buying

Do a quick internet search and there are more than 600 references of “Tom Waits" and the term “huckster" together. Snake oil, parodist, sly salesman, etc., a vocabulary of carnival-esque trickery have followed the man; as critic Robert Christgau quipped in the 1970's, “Waits is so full of shit..." (as he ripped the Pomona, Calif., native apart). But whatever Tom Waits is selling, his diverse and unifyingly strange ...

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Bad Plus Trio Goes Quartet at JVC

Source: Michael Ricci
June 29, 2008

A Close-Knit Trio Turns Itself Into a Quartet for a Night

Since officially declaring bandhood around the turn of the millennium, the Bad Plus has convincingly modeled a closed society. Its members -- the pianist Ethan Iverson, the bassist Reid Anderson and the drummer David King -- all hail from the upper Midwest, where they first played together as teenagers. Their chemistry is reactive but stable, and their methods don't avail much room for outside contributions. But on Tuesday night ...

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Joshua Redman Saxophone Leaps over Wall of Funk

Source: Michael Ricci
June 29, 2008

Joshua Redman and Soulive are not that unlikely a combination.

Redman is a saxophonist of such intelligence and energy that you could probably place him in any musical setting, and he would find a way to make himself at home. Sitting in with the trio Soulive on Thursday night for a JVC Jazz Festival performance at Le Poisson Rouge, he did just that. Although Mr. Redman is best known as a master of straight-ahead post-bop jazz, he has made some ...

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Leonard Cohen Montreal's Poet Son Heralds Its Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
June 29, 2008

Leonard Cohen played three concerts on the eve of the Montreal International Jazz Festival.

MONTREAL -- On Wednesday night, in the last of his three concerts presented as preludes to the Montreal International Jazz Festival, Leonard Cohen, the 73-year-old hometown poet-hero on tour for the first time in 15 years, said that on his last time through town he was “60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream." Between waves of applause and hollers in French and English, ...

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