Performance / Tour News

New York Funky/Jazz Guitarist B.D. Lenz Makes His London Debut

Source: All About Jazz
April 10, 2008

New York, NY - Riding high on the success of his latest CD “Straight Up", B.D. Lenz is a musician on the move. He has been performing relentlessly throughout the U.S. and promoting the new recording with many local radio & television appearances. In continuation of these efforts the guitarist is bringing his highly acclaimed ensemble to London for his first ever UK gigs. As Lenz's third project with the New York based Apria Record label, ...

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Yale Jazz Ensemble Opens Mingus Birthday Celebration at Iridium - April 22, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
April 10, 2008

The Yale Jazz Ensemble, led by Music Director David M. Brandenburg, will open for the Mingus Big Band on Tuesday, April 22, 2008, Charles Mingus' birthday, at 6:30 pm at the Iridium Jazz Club (1650 Broadway at 51st Street). The Ensemble will be joined by special guest Niko Higgins, saxophone. There is a $10 minimum with no cover charge. (There is an additional charge to stay for the Mingus Big Band.) Call (212) 582-2121 or visit iridiumjazzclub.com for more information. ...

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Peter Brotzmann / Han Bennink Duo USA Tour April 16-28

Source: All About Jazz
April 9, 2008

Legendary Free Music Duo in a rare US Tour

“Few modern saxophonists can sound as powerfully abrasive as Mr. Brotzmann, and few drummers can seem as convincingly unhinged as Mr. Bennink. Each is a pillar of the European free-improvising scene, and a touchstone for the rambunctious wing of the contemporary avant-garde." -New York Times 2006

16 April Amherst, Ma Amherst Unitarian Meetinghouse, 8pm 121 N. Pleasant St.

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Stephanie Jordan and Jason Marsalis with Lionel Hampton Big Band at Official Centennial Birthday Celebration

Source: All About Jazz
April 9, 2008

NEW ORLEANS, April 9, 2008 - New Orleans jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan and vibraphonist Jason Marsalis are scheduled to perform with the Lionel Hampton Big Band on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art/University of New Orleans. On the same day, the museum will also debut an exhibition focusing on Lionel Hampton to coincide with the centennial anniversary of Hampton's birth on April 20, 1908. His birthday will also mark the publication by State Street Press ...

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Gypsy Guitar Master Bireli Lagrene to Make a Rare US Appearance in May

Source: All About Jazz
April 9, 2008

GLOBALLY CELEBRATED GUITAR VIRTUOSO BIRELI LAGRENE TO MAKE A RARE US APPEARANCE (May 2 & 3) IN LINCOLN CENTER CONCERT CELEBRATING TWO JAZZ GUITAR HEROES: DJANGO REINHARDT AND CHARLIE CHRISTIAN. LAGRENE - VIEWED BY MANY AS THE GREATEST LIVING INTERPRETER OF DJANGO REINHARDT - WILL MAKE HIS FIRST US APPERANCE IN THREE YEARS CO-STARRING WITH THREE AMERICAN JAZZ GUITAR MASTERS RUSSELL MALONE, BOBBY BROOM AND FRANK VIGNOLA POWERED BY THE LEWIS NASH QUARTET FEATURING MULGREW MILLER New York, NY-- Critically ...

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Lola Danza Sings with Bob Moses, Matt Langley & Wes Brown on April 17 at Ryles Jazz Club

Source: All About Jazz
April 9, 2008

The enchanting and innovative vocalist, Lola Danza celebrates with an evening of experimental jazz music at Ryles Jazz Club (212 Hampshire St. Cambridge MA) Thursday April 17, 2008 at 8:30pm. Ms. Danza will be joined by special guests: Matt Langley- Saxophone, Bob Moses - Drums, Wes Brown- Bass, Leo Genovese- Piano and Nat Mugavero - Drums. Ms. Danza combines Jazz, Avant-garde, World, Classical, Post Modern Pop and Americana music. Danza's created a new idiom in Jazz. Lola's original compositions evoke ...

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Steve Weingart & Simon Phillips @ The Baked Potato on 4/12

Source: All About Jazz
April 8, 2008

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Karen Blixt Offers a Hopeful Message on Her New CD Mad Hope Due in Stores Spring 2008

Source: Gorgeous PR, Inc
April 8, 2008

KAREN BLIXT OFFERS A HOPEFUL MESSAGE ON HER NEW CD MAD HOPE DUE IN STORES SPRING 2008 BLIXT WILL BE PERFORMING AT YOSHI'S IN OAKLAND ON APRIL 15 AND CATALINA JAZZ CLUB IN LOS ANGELES ON MAY 21 San Francisco-based jazz singer Karen Blixt releases her second album Mad Hope in Spring 2008. The thirteen-track collection is a robust and ambitious project that finds Blixt building on the successes of her 2006 ...

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