Performance / Tour News

Latin Music Series and Dance Party

Source: All About Jazz
June 17, 2008

Summer afternoons in Boston can sizzle, but evening respites in a neighborhood park listening and dancing to tropical sounds and syncopated beats can be even hotter. The fourth-annual Tito Puente Latin Music Series - presented by Berklee College of Music; La Casa de La Cultura /Center for Latino Arts, IBA; and ParkARTS - combines the Latin rhythms of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica, with influences from far-flung corners of the world, reflecting Berklee's sonic melting pot.

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2008 Annual Jazzmobile Finals This Thursday June 19th

Source: All About Jazz
June 17, 2008

This Thursday will be the last performance of the 2008 Annual JazzMobile Finals. “a serious awakening of how alive & live Jazz still is" This Thursday June 19th Doors Open 630pm Showtime 730pm The River Room 145th st & Riverside Drive NYC There were 12 finalists in a series of the first & second ...

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Alan Hewitt and SoulJam Headline Coltrane Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
June 17, 2008

Headliner's Set for Southside Holiday Blues & Coltrane Jazz Fest

Multi-platinum artist Alan Hewitt and the SoulJam Orchestra with special guest Maysa Leak will headline the Southside Holiday Blues and Coltrane Jazz Festival in Dallas, Texas on July 5, 2008. Hosted by media personality and former Dallas resident, Lynn Briggs of KOAS-Las Vegas, this 4th of July Weekend festival celebrates the spirit of American music with other special guests like Nick Colionne, Greg Smith and James Butler. The festival will ...

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Josh Berman at the MCA Terrace and Sculpture Garden

Source: All About Jazz
June 17, 2008

Tuesdays on the Terrace presents another inspiring season of free evening jazz concerts on the MCA's Terrace and Sculpture Garden.

Chicago musician Josh Berman returns to the MCA to perform at Tuesdays on the Terrace. As an accomplished cornetist, Berman has performed with contemporary greats Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ab Baars, Guillermo Gregorio, Jeff Parker, Tobias Delius and Robert Barry. In the Chicago community Berman lends his talent to several ensembles while serving as vice-president of the Emerging Improvisers' Organization and a ...

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The Banda Eclectics Live at Osarthouse-NYC

Source: All About Jazz
June 17, 2008

FRIDAY, JUNE 20 8:00-9:30pm The BandA ecLectics is an 11-piece ensemble consisting of musicians with jazz, world and classical music tendencies and affiliations. These professional musicians will be performing this coming Thursday two 40-minute sets of original compositions with a fresh and unique sound, at the OSArthouse, in New York City. The musical material involves finely composed orchestrations as well as improvisation, arranged organically into a sound that vibrates originality. The instrumentation is very unique as well, as ...

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Birdland Announces July 2008 Schedule

Source: O&M Co.
June 16, 2008

Birdland (315 West 44th Street - between 8th & 9th Aves.) is pleased to announce an exciting line-up of extraordinary entertainment for the month of July. A detailed schedule follows:

Lew Tabackin Quartet - featuring Toshiko Akiyoshi

Lew Tabackin is one of the few jazz musicians who maintains a dual musical personality. As a tenor saxophonist, he is a hard-driving, tough-toned player reminiscent of Sonny Rollins or Don Byas. But as a flutist, he can also sound like a highly ...

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The Famous Paulie Performs Yesterday

Source: Michael Ricci
June 16, 2008

Paul McCartney Former Wings Former Beatle Back In The Former U.S.S.R. Formerlly Performing Yesterday Yesterday

FATHERS DAY Hey Daddy! Are you Paul McCartney? His young inquizitive daughter was known to ask. KIEV, Ukraine -- Tens of thousands of people braved heavy rain and thunder Saturday night to see Paul McCartney perform a charity concert on Kiev's central Independence Square. The outdoor show, the first in Ukraine for the ex-Beatle, was billed as the biggest concert ever ...

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Vibist Ed Saindon at the Berklee Percussion Festival

Source: World Improvised Music
June 16, 2008

Ed Saindon will be teaching at the Berklee Percussion Festival in Boston, Massachusetts from June 23rd to the 27th. The curriculum will include clinics, concerts, classes and ensembles for mallet players, drummers and percussionists. As part of Percussion Week, Saindon will be performing music from his latest recording Depth of Emotion along with Matt Marvuglio-flute, Bruno Raberg-bass, and Mark Walker-drums on Tuesday, June 24th on the Berklee campus in the David Friend Recital Hall from 7-8. Video clips of a ...

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