Performance / Tour News

Edward Simon at Jazz Bakery

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Venezuelan pianist Edward Simon is going to be at Jazz Bakery Saturday June 14th Edward Simon was born in the coastal town of Punta Cardn, Venezuela where he grew up in a family of musicians surrounded by the sounds and rhythms of Latin and Caribbean music. The talent he showed as a youth led his father to send him to study in the US, where he won scholarships in classical piano at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia under ...

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Danilo Perez in Wayne Shorter Quartet: Tour Dates

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Danilo Perez is touring with Wayne Shorter Quartet. 6/27/08 Festival d'Essaouira Gnaoua Essaouira, Morocco 6/29/08 Centro Cultural Caixa Nova Vigo, Spain 7/1/08 Theatre Antique De Vienne Vienne, France 7/3/08 Jazz Baltica Festival Lubeck, Germany 7/4/08 Tubaloon Kongsberg, Norway 7/6/08 Opera House Copenhagen, Denmark 7/9/08 University Concert Hall Limerick Ireland 7/12/08 ...

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Detroit Orchestra Announces Jazz Series

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Dave Brubeck: Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 8 p.m. Regarded as a genius in his field, the pianist, composer and bandleader wrote such jazz standards as “In Your Own Sweet Way" and “The Duke." Bruebeck was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2007 he was honored with a BBC Jazz “Lifetime Achievement Award." EARL KLUGH: Friday, November 7, 2008 at 8 p.m. A pioneer of contemporary jazz, his signature performance and composition styles have earned him 11 Grammy ...

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Death Jazz @ The Roundhouse

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Brownwood Presents Death Jazz @ The Roundhouse, 14th July 08 Courting controversy, that impish Radio 1 Worldwide DJ Gilles Peterson has just announced A Night Of Death Jazz at Camden's Roundhouse which will feature Tokyo's Soil & “Pimp" Sessions, The Mighty Jeddo and the Neil Cowley Trio, alongside musikal selectahs Toshio 'UFO' Matsuura, drum'n'bass don Fabio and GP himself. Tokyo's hi-rise renegades Soil & “Pimp" have long billed their local sessions as Death Jazz in the hope of alienating Japan's ...

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Ray Vega Latin Jazz Quintet to Perform July 8 at Free Jazzmobile Concert at Louis Armstrong House Museum

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

FLUSHING, NY -- Louis Armstrong was famous for practicing trumpet on his balcony to the delight of his neighbors in the decidedly working-class neighborhood of Corona, Queens. Continuing the tradition, the Louis Armstrong House Museum is pleased to present Ray Vega and his Latin Jazz Quintet on Tuesday, July 8 for the seventh edition of Jazzmobile at LAHM. Organized for the benefit of our neighbors and the general public, the event will run from 6 pm to 8 pm outside ...

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Dave Matthews Band Lighting Strikes

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Lightning Strikes In More Than One Way At DMB Gig

The Dave Matthews Band, by nature, does a big show. But for the seventh show of its North American summer tour, Mother Nature added even more drama to the mix. With flashes of lightning that rivaled the DMB's own opulent light show -- spurring spontaneous fan reactions that had nothing to do with the group's onstage performance -- and plenty of thunder and rain, the weather added a bit more ...

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Freewheeling: A Skateboard Jamsession

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Concert review from Trondheim Jazz Festival, June 2008 Two skateboarders, five musicians. A cacophony of rolling wheels and jazzy tunes. The jump. Brief pause of silence. Audience gasping at the hurricane like blend of sounds, quickly learning that this is actually the needlework of a brilliant musical mind, sowing together what no one has ever thought up before. Skateboard and jazz. Of course, come to think of it, a man grown up partly on a piece of wood mounted on ...

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Bill Charlap's Trio to Open for Steely Dan

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Pianist Bill Charlap, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington will open for Steely Dan at New York's Beacon Theatre on June 13 and 14. Charlap previously worked with Steely Dan in 2003, playing piano on two tracks--"Pixeleen" and “Godwhacker"--of the group's 2003 release, Everything Must Go.

About Bill Charlap Bill Charlap was born in New York City into a musical family. His father, Moose Charlap, was a Broadway composer and songwriter whose credits included the scores to Peter Pan, ...

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