Performance / Tour News

Bob Florence Memorial Concert on July 26th

Source: All About Jazz
May 24, 2008

Centrum Jazz All Star-Big Band Tribute Concert to Bob Florence

Legendary jazz composer, arranger and Big Band leader Bob Florence, who won a Grammy and two Emmy awards during his long career, died five days before his 76th birthday on May 15th.

Florence who won a Grammy Award in 2000 for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance for his album “Serendipity 18," received 15 other Grammy nominations during his career.

He won Emmy awards for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction for ...

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Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band Cooks at the Bakery

Source: All About Jazz
May 24, 2008

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band at The Jazz Bakery Tuesday May 27th

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, an 18-piece jazz ensemble, celebrates and personifies the best of the big band tradition with a very contemporary and original sound. Through the writing genius of Gordon Goodwin, SRO audiences have enjoyed one of the most craftsman-like hard swinging large jazz ensembles comprised of L.A.'s finest musicians. Gordon's witty and insightful arrangements propel the listener on a journey through a myriad of styles: ...

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Kornstad-Opsvik-Taborn-Smith @ Nublu on Memorial Day

Source: All About Jazz
May 23, 2008

This Monday, May 18th 10pm at Nublu 62 Avenue C, between 4th and 5th Street, NYC F train to 2nd avenue or L train to 1st avenue, look for small blue lamp above door $5 after 10pm Hakon Kornstad - tenor sax Craig Taborn - fender rhodes Ches Smith - drums Eivind Opsvik - bass one of the ...

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L.A. Doctors Symphony in Concert

Source: All About Jazz
May 23, 2008

Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra in Concert Sunday June 1st With Oboist David Weiss Conductor Ivan Shulman

Founded in 1953, the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra, presently under the leadership of Music Director and Conductor, Ivan Shulman, is one of the oldest community orchestras in the United States having its origin in the health professions, still presenting regular concerts. A number of its members are physicians, dentists or allied health professional women and men in medicine ...

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Doors Drummer John Densmore's "Tribaljazz" @ Keswick Friday, June 6

Source: All About Jazz
May 23, 2008

"Break on Through" to Tribaljazz! JOHN DENSMORE'S TRIBALJAZZ Exclusive Central Atlantic Concert! KESWICK THEATRE 291 Keswick Ave., Glenside, PA FRI., JUN. 6, 8 PM Tickets on sale NOW! “I've been mouthing off about being a jazz drummer since before The Doors," John Densmore relates. “Thirty years later, I'm finally putting my sticks where my mouth has been." Densmore's lifelong adoration of jazz and his insatiable hunger for global sounds has ...

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Sten Hostfalt's Ghost Factor Live at Otto's NYC May 28

Source: All About Jazz
May 23, 2008

Sten Hostfalt's Ghost Factor Live in Concert at Otto's in New York City May 28 2008 at 8 pm / No cover Sten Hostfalt - guitar, bass, voice Matt Renzi - tenor saxophone, clarinet Marko Djordjevic - drums Impressive, Intense - Time Out NY '08 Inimitable - PM NYC / Paper Magazine '07 Groundbreaking - Jazz Review '05 ...

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Ayelet Rose at the Jazz Standard

Source: All About Jazz
May 23, 2008

After performing with Bobby McFerrin's “Instant Opera" at Carnegie Hall, Ayelet rounds up a stellar group of musicians to perform her original compositions and arrangements at one of New York's finest jazz clubs. This concert is a preview performance to her upcoming new CD “Upto Here | From Here", and her debut performance at the Jazz Standard Ayelet Rose Gottlieb- Voice / Compositions, Loren Stillman- Saxophones, Shane Endsley- Trumpet, Gary Versace- Piano, Kiyoshi Kitagawa- Bass, Clarence Penn- Drums June 9th, ...

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Mike Clark's Fat Beats for Tony Adamo

Source: All About Jazz
May 23, 2008

Singer-songwriter, Tony Adamo's long time producer-guitarist, Jerry Stucker and drumming icon, Mike Clark were in New York City at the Bedford Studios laying down tracks for Adamo's new CD. Andy Tommasi assisted producer, Jerry Stucker at the Quad Eight board. Clark gained worldwide fame as one of America's foremost jazz and funk drummers while playing with Herbie Hancock's group, The Headhunters. It is widely accepted that Clark is one of the few in the category of Elvin Jones and Tony ...

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