Performance / Tour News

Alto Saxophonist Alex Han, 20, Will Tour with Marcus Miller

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2008

By Patricia Myers

Young alto saxophonist Alex Han, 20, has been booked for an international summer tour with two-time Grammy-winning electric bassist Marcus Miller.

The tour begins July 3 with the Istanbul Jazz Festival in Turkey and continues across Europe, including the Jazz a Juan festival in Antibes, France, and the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.,ending July 29. Prior to the tour, Han will perform with Terri Lyne Carrington and George Duke on June 8 at Chicago's Pearl Fest 2008. ...

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Mambo Kings Join Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2008

Internationally-recognized Latin music ensemble The Mambo Kings will team up with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor Jeff Tyzik for a unique concert series incorporating Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz rhythms with classical music. The high-energy, Latin and dance-inspired performances will feature music by such artists as Carlos Santana and Dave Brubeck and take place in Orchestra Hall on Thursday, June 5 at 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m.; Friday, June 6 at 8:30 p.m.; Saturday, June 7 at 8:30 p.m. ...

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Jazz Great Chick Corea Returns to Forever

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2008

He's never jumped up and down on Oprah Winfrey's couch, nor has he button-holed strangers about his belief. Instead, jazz pianist Chick Corea uses his life-long belief in Scientology to get him through his most frantic times. Corea is constantly on tour with one band or another. That adds up to a lot of airports, hotels, and a suspension of home life. When he's not touring, he's composing or recording. It's a good life for a musician - not many ...

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Lionel Loueke Leads off Guitar Society's Jazz Series

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2008

Leading off this Sunday with Lionel Loueke, a phenomenal new voice on guitar, Connecticut Guitar Society (CGS) brings its dinner/concert “Summer Jazz Series" back for an encore season. Loueke, a West African protege of Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Terence Blanchard, serves his tangy mix of American jazz and traditional African music as he leads his trio Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at Sweet Jane's restaurant, 88 Pratt St., Hartford. A dinner is served at 6 p.m. in the four-part Sunday ...

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Carefully Planned Jazz, Fit for a '50s Soundtrack

Source: Michael Ricci
June 5, 2008

The bassist Ben Wolfe has some very tight ideas about composition, an interest in combining a small jazz band with strings and an admiration for jazz of the late 1950s. Where that leads him, inevitably, is to music that sounds as if it's made for a film: noirs, thrillers, movies shot at night with rain-slicked streets reflecting the lights, that kind of thing. On Tuesday at the Jazz Standard he brought eight players onstage to run through music from his ...

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Billy Bragg Performs at L.A.'s El Rey

Source: Michael Ricci
June 5, 2008

Billy Bragg puts words on a page and suspends them in the air The English musician (and author) performs in L.A. in support of his Mr. Love & Justice album.

ALTHOUGH it's been nearly six years since Billy Bragg has released an album, his hiatus can hardly be characterized as quiet. In fact, the English guitarist-songwriter, who has spent more than two decades belting out politically charged, punk-tinged folk songs, continued to speak out on those same themes of politics ...

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Carlos Santana on Playing Woodstock

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2008

When Santana played at Woodstock in 1969, you already had your trademark sound, that piercing sustain in which you hold a single note for what seems like ages. How did playing with so much high-speed percussion affect your approach to soloing? The more somebody plays fast around you, the more you slow down and play long, legato lines. In “Jingo" [on 1969's Santana], we had that bass line and the conga going in that rhythm. I had to ...

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Austin City Limits Daily Schedules

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2008

Austin City Limits Daily Schedules Announced

Beck The 2008 Austin City Limits Music Festival daily schedules have been announced. Set to take place at Zilker Park from September 26-28, headliners include Foo Fighters, Gnarls Barkley, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Manu Chao, David Byrne, The Raconteurs, Beck and The Mars Volta.

The seventh ACL Music Fest will feature over 125 acts over three days. Also on the bill are Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, N.E.R.D., Spiritualized, Tegan & ...

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