Performance / Tour News

The Matt Geraghty Project at Bowery Poetry Club in NYC - Sunday 7:30PM

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2008

The Matt Geraghty Project, led by bassist and composer Matt Geraghty, is an ambitious modern musical effort revealing exciting and cutting-edge cross-cultural concepts. The global texture of the group is cultivated by Indian vocalist Satya Gummuluri who sings in Urdu, Hindi, and Punjab and Geraghty's compositions that blend jazz, rock, funk and music from Brazil, Spain, India and North Africa. Geraghty will be performing music from his 3rd CD Passport which features 6-time grammy award winning drummer Paul Wertico and ...

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Jazz Guitarist and Vocalist Monnette Sudler to Perform at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach on Sunday, March 16

Source: Phred, Inc.
March 1, 2008

PALM COAST, FL (Mar. 1, 2008)--Internationally recognized jazz guitarist, composer, vocalist and poet Monnette Sudler will perform at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach on Sunday, March 16 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. as part of the North East Florida Jazz Association's (NEFJA) 2008 concert series. The Philadelphia born artist has been described as a soulful and electrifying jazz guitarist and composer. Her unique, emotional, poetic and lyrical arrangements have delighted audiences throughout the world. In ...

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NJPAC Exclusive: Nnenna Freelon & Geri Allen

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2008

EXCLUSIVE METRO AREA DOUBLE-BILL! NJPAC'S ALTERNATE ROUTES SERIES PRESENTS NNENNA FREELON AND GERI ALLEN SATURDAY, MARCH 29 AT 7:30 PM NEWARK, NJ - In a Metro area exclusive, trend-setting contemporary jazz artists Nnenna Freelon and Geri Allen appear on a double-bill in NJPAC's Victoria Theater on Saturday, March 29 at 7:30pm, as a part of NJPAC's Alternate Routes series. Tickets are $39 and are available by telephone at 1-888-GO-NJPAC (1-888-466-5722), at the ...

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Reptet Announces Spring 2008 Tour

Source: The Frank Agency
March 1, 2008

REPTET EAST COAST TOUR - APRIL 2008 “This Seattle sextet does it all: it grooves, it rocks, it squawks - occasionally, it even talks. Mostly, it sounds like a New Orleans jazz band on crystal meth." - Alexander Gelfand / Jazziz Reptet achieves “a bittersweet and elegiac mood of orchestral grandeur." - Downbeat Magazine April 2 Chicago, IL The Velvet Lounge April 3 Grand Rapids, MI Mexicains Sans Frontieres April 4 Traverse City, MI Insideout Gallery ...

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Stanford Lively Arts Presents Pianist Uri Caine on Wednesday, March 19

Source: All About Jazz
February 29, 2008

Stanford, CA, February 29, 2008--Stanford Lively Arts presents jazz pianist/composer Uri Caine, one of the great musical innovators of our time, in a program of solo piano reinterpretations of Gustav Mahler's deeply emotional songs and monumental symphonic works in Dinkelspiel Auditorium on Wednesday, March 19 at 8:00 p.m. Playing repertoire based on his 1997 award-winning Mahler “remixed" recording “Urlicht/Primal Light," Caine recontextualizes musical genres and introduces improvisation where it is not ordinarily found.

Uri Caine has been called “ferociously versatile" ...

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Wolter Wierbos Solo United States Tour 2008

Source: All About Jazz
February 28, 2008

Dutch trombone master Wolter Wierbos will be touring the United States in support of his most recent solo CD. He will perform solo and with local improvisors at a venue near you. March 3, 2008: Solo, Bop Shop, Village Gate Square, 274 N. Goodman St., Rochester (NY) (8 pm). March 5, 2008: Workshop, University of Indiana, 107 S. Indiana Ave., Bloomington (Ind.) (12.15 pm). March 5, 2008: Solo, Cinemat, 123 S. North Walnut St., Bloomington (9 pm). March 6, 2008: ...

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Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut at the Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, Biennial 2008

Source: All About Jazz
February 28, 2008

JEFFREY HAYDEN SHURDUT presents “Pianos are instruments not furniture"

Live public performance and interview on Neighborhood Public Radio as part of The Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, Biennial 2008

March 8, Saturday, 3pm (FM frequency to be announced.)

“HEY MADISON AVE., PIANOS ARE INSTRUMENTS- NOT FURNITURE." Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut

I grew up in a society where music was considered an after school activity; a recreational babysitter.

25 years later I decided to walk the streets of ...

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World Culture Music Recording Artist Jazz Vocalist and Composer Julie Hardy to Perform at the Kitano

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
February 28, 2008

World Culture Music Recording Artist Jazz Vocalist and Composer JULIE HARDY to perform at the Kitano Thursday, February 28th, sets at 8 & 10PM “On her new album, The Wish, Ms. Hardy burnishes her growing reputation as a musically astute and thoughtfully modern jazz singer." - Nate Chinen, New York Times “Hardy never throws off a frivolous phrase or relies on a hackneyed standards approach. Hers is a serious art, based in songs of longing and reflection with arrangements that ...

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