Performance / Tour News

Sten Hostfalt & Blaise Siwula at Yippie Cafe

Source: All About Jazz
June 22, 2008

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Lizz Wright and Raul Midon Double Billed at JVC

Source: Michael Ricci
June 21, 2008

Faith From the South, and a One-Man Band The New York Society for Ethical Culture

If I had to choose a single word to describe the mystique of the singer Lizz Wright, it would be steadfast.

Ms. Wright, who headlined a double bill with the equally talented singer-songwriter Raul Midon at the concert hall of the New York Society for Ethical Culture on Thursday evening, is a minister's daughter from a small town in rural Georgia. Her recent ...

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Bruce Springsteen Announces Added Tour Dates

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2008

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Your Favourite Records Presents the Finest in Young Danish Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

The newly established record company Your Favourite Records offers an exciting programme during this summer's Copenhagen Jazz Festival. “The Finest In Young Danish Jazz" is what the company calls it's project which among others includes the winners of the Young Jazz Competition, 2007, EXIL. Hot Young Jazz to Nrrebro During Copenhagen Jazz Festival there are not many offers on Nrrebro to jazz-lovers, but the record company Your Favourite Records has taken matters into their own hands and offers 50 DKR-partout ...

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RZA Gets into Digital Mind Frame for the Fonda

Source: Michael Ricci
June 20, 2008

Wu-Tang Clan's abbot and resident chess master, RZA

He's starting to look more like a neo-soul singer instead of the ruckus-bringer from the early '90s. I guess that's what becoming a Hollywood composer and actor will do to you. The change has actually brought him a fair amount of flack from his brethren for his softened, more focused beat production on the Wu's recent “8 Diagrams" album. But fear not, RZA loyalists: Superhero hedonist alter ego Bobby Digital is back. ...

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Alicia Keys Raw Emotions in the Garden

Source: Michael Ricci
June 20, 2008

Raw Emotions, Meticulously Outlined The singer and songwriter Alicia Keys at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night.

Seated behind her piano on Wednesday night, plucking out the first few chords of “Sure Looks Good to Me," Alicia Keys finally looked at ease. For about 20 minutes she had breathlessly, and limply, worked the Madison Square Garden stage -- forcing sensuality on “You Don't Know My Name," getting lost amid her backup singers on “Teenage Love Affair." But “Sure ...

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Charlie Haden's Old Hollywood

Source: Michael Ricci
June 20, 2008

Sounds of Old Hollywood, Augmented by Memories

Charlie Haden's Quartet West opened its late set at the new club Le Poisson Rouge on Wednesday with Charlie Parker's “Passport" and got right into it. The saxophonist Ernie Watts began as if he were in the middle of things, with a controlled medium projection, playing fast and smoothly and using language from Parker and Coltrane, devices that coolly showed how much he knew. Then Alan Broadbent put in an organized piano solo ...

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Tuesdays on the Terrace: Jimmy Ellis

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

Tuesdays on the Terrace: Jimmy Ellis Tuesday, July 8 5:30 - 8 p.m. MCA Terrace and Sculpture Garden Free Tuesdays on the Terrace presents another inspiring season of free evening jazz concerts on the MCA's Terrace and Sculpture Garden. Hosted by local radio personalities, visitors are invited to enjoy cocktails, Puck's Express snacks, or a dinner buffet from Puck's Cafe while listening to Chicago's finest jazz musicians. Dinner reservations at Puck's are ...

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