Performance / Tour News

"Miles from India" for One Night in L.A.

Source: Michael Ricci
May 31, 2008

Everything is coming up Miles Davis these days: two film projects, remixes, box sets, books galore and “Miles From India," a new release of interpretations of some Miles classics by Indian musicians aided by Miles sidemen.

This Sunday, a concert -- one of only three planned nationwide -- seeks to bring that recording project to the stage here in L.A. It's the kick-off show for the Grand Performances series at the California Plaza downtown. Miles continued to develop his electric ...

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The Eagles @ Madison Square: Reivew

Source: Michael Ricci
May 30, 2008

Music Review Eagles Say Goodbye, Again and Again The Eagles at Madison Square Garden

What comes after a farewell tour? For the Eagles the sequel to their coyly named “Farewell I" tour in 2005 was nothing less than their first studio album since 1979, “Long Road Out of Eden" (ERC II), a 20-track, two-CD set that has sold nearly four million copies in the United States since its release last year. That led in turn to ...

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Justo Almario Featured in Kung Fu Panda Original Musical Score

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2008

This summer keep your ears open, as International Colombian saxophonist Justo Almario can be heard in Kung Fu Panda's (Dreamworks) upbeat and epic-like original musical score. Kung Fu Panda will be opening in theaters everywhere on June 6th. Co-written by Hans Zimmer and John Paul, the musical score is an adventurous score with unique rhythms and instrumentation. No stranger to film festivities; on May 19th he performed at the Cannes Film Festival alongside Andy Garcia and the CineSon All Stars. ...

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Atlanta's Showtyme Jazz Duo at Howard Alan Events' Art Festivals

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2008

Atlanta's Showtyme Jazz Duo, Cliff and Sei deMarks, will be performing this art festival season at a number of Howard Alan Events' art festivals. Howard Alan Events, of Plantation, Florida, is a premier producer of fine art and craft shows around the country. The Showtyme Jazz Duo are fixtures at a number of trade, expo and fine art shows in the East and have said that they welcome this opportunity to be a part of the Howard Alan Events' team ...

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Playing the Building: An Installation by David Byrne

Source: Michael Ricci
May 29, 2008

Turning a Building Into an Orchastra Lyricism in Girders, Harmony in Rusty Pipes: David Byrne in the Battery Maritime Building.

THE symphony of Manhattan Island, composed and performed fortissimo daily by garbage trucks, car speakers, I-beam bolters, bus brakes, warped manhole covers, knocking radiators, people yelling from high windows and the blaring television that now greets you in the back of a taxi, is the kind of music people would pay good money to be able to silence, ...

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Something Positive Presents: Tribute - Celebrating the Legacy of Cheryl Byron

Source: All About Jazz
May 29, 2008

Saturday, June 21, 2008, at 7PM at Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (515 Malcolm X Boulevard), Something Positive, Inc presents: TRIBUTE - Celebrating the legacy of Cheryl Byron. Ms. Byron was a composer, acclaimed choreographer, educator, and founder of Something Positive. In 1976, Cheryl Byron was the first artist to perform a new style of music called RAPSO, in a calypso tent in Trinidad & Tobago. At the time, she was scoffed at “poetry in a calypso ...

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Maria Neckam @ Bar Next Door in NYC, Monday, June 2nd

Source: All About Jazz
May 29, 2008

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Harry Partch: Plectra and Recussion Dances

Source: All About Jazz
May 29, 2008

This three-part work, which Harry Partch called a “satyr play," is eccentric even by the standards of the maverick Californian. Performed for the first time since 1953 John Schneider directs the ensemble in Harry Partch's complete score of Plectra and Percussion Dances: Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater. Performing with the composer's custom-designed microtonal instruments. It begins with Zeus impregnating Leda the swan, moves on to something Partch referred to as a demented sonata and winds up with Rimbaud. Weird and ...

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