Performance / Tour News

The Kevin Frenette 5 @ 119 Gallery - Saturday May 31

Source: All About Jazz
May 27, 2008

Saturday May 31, 2008

119 Gallery 119 Chelmsford Street Lowell, MA

8pm - 11pm

The Kevin Frenette 5 Kevin Frenette (guitar) James Rohr (fender rhodes) Joe Moffet (trumpet) Ryan McGuire (bass) Croix Galipault (drums)

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Bird Organ

Marc Bisson (tabletop guitars) Mike Fun (analog synthesizer) deiX, (theremin + voice) Walter Wright (laptop)

Guitarist Kevin Frenette began playing music at the age of ...

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Vocalist Monica Hatch with Pamela Hines

Source: Kari-On Productions
May 27, 2008

Jazz vocalist Monica Hatch with pianist Pamela Hines will perform the 7:00pm show on Friday, May 30th, at the Acton Jazz Cafe in Acton, MA. Hatch has a lyrical jazz style and improv skills to make every standard fresh. About Monica Hatch Born and raised in Connecticut in a family of nine children, Monica Hatch was drawn to both classical music and jazz from the beginning of her musical journey. Influenced by her parents love of music (her father was ...

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Amina Figarova at the Erie Art Museum

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2008

Direct from Amsterdam, celebrated Jazz pianist Amina Figarova and her ensemble will be holding a public concert at the Erie Art Museum on Thursday June 12, 2008 at 8 p.m. The performance will be held in the Erie Art Museum Annex, 423 State Street. Admission is free; a $10 donation is suggested. This performance is sponsored by Connoisseur Media. Amina Figarova is a remarkable composer and pianist. Classically trained in her native Azerbaijan, she plunged into jazz as a very ...

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The BandA eclectics Live at Lilypad-Cambridge

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2008

The BandA eclectics LIVE at Lilypad THURSDAY, MAY 29 10pm-1am

The BandA ecLectics is a 10-piece ensemble consisting of musicians with jazz, world and classical music tendencies and affiliations. These professional musicians will be performing this coming Thursday 2 one-hour sets of original compositions with a fresh and unique sound, at Lilypad, in Cambridge. The musical material involves finely composed orchestrations as well as improvisation, arranged organically into a sound that vibrates originality.

The instrumentation is ...

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Mission: On Mars @ Drom 5/31/08

Source: All About Jazz
May 25, 2008

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The Jack Sheldon Orchestra Shelly Manne's "My Fair Lady"

Source: All About Jazz
May 24, 2008

Jack Sheldon and his Orchestra perform Shelly Manne's “My Fair Lady" Sunday May 25th with special guest Tierney Sutton

The “stage door" is swinging off its hinges this week (May 22-25) as Ken Poston and the Los Angeles Jazz Institute presents another of their semi-annual extravaganzas at the LAX Four Points Sheraton Hotel. “The Stage Door Swings" marks somewhat of a departure for Poston / LAJI, as the spotlight won't be focused, as it usually is, almost exclusively ...

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Mark Soskin at the Marblehead Jazz Festival Saturday, June 28th

Source: All About Jazz
May 24, 2008

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Bird, Beckett, Hackett & Wongozi in San Francisco

Source: All About Jazz
May 24, 2008

New Bird & Beckett Books Jazz Series In San Francisco Poet Paula Hackett & Pianist Rudi Wongozi June 8th, 5:30 to 8:00 pm

The newly re-opened Bird and Beckett bookstore in San Francisco has always been a friend to the jazz community. The new location on 653 Chenery Street continues this tradition with weekly concerts every Friday from 5:30 until 8:00pm.

On June 8th poet Paula Hackett will read her tributes to many of the jazz ...

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