Performance / Tour News

Taylor Ho Bynum World Premiere + Big Band Residency Coming in March

Source: Improvised Communications
February 26, 2008

NEW YORK, NY -- Brooklyn-based cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum will usher in the spring concert season with two distinctive concert events in New York that will feature him performing new original works with his own bands.

On March 30th at Roulette, Bynum will lead his improvising chamber ensemble SpiderMonkey Strings and special guest vocalist Kyoko Kitamura in the world premiere performance of his secular oratorio, Madeleine Dreams.

And, Bynum's new ten-piece ensemble, Positive Catastrophe, co-led by percussionist Abraham Gomez-Delgado (founder ...

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Julie Hardy Quartet at the Kitano - Thursday, February 28

Source: All About Jazz
February 24, 2008

New York City-based vocalist and composer, Julie Hardy will perform at The Kitano on Thursday, February 28th sets at 8PM & 10PM.

One of the most distinctive voices among the growing ranks of female jazz singers in New York City belongs to Julie Hardy, whose appearance at The Kitano coincides with a new CD entitled The Wish. This is Julie's most fully realized recording to date and her first release through World Culture Music, an artist collective label and multi-faceted ...

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Laurent Medelgi Trio at Vintage, NYC, Feb 25th 2008 9-11PM Free

Source: All About Jazz
February 24, 2008

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Ayelet Rose, Anat Fort and Michael Winograd in Philadelphia

Source: All About Jazz
February 24, 2008

The trio will perform original music that combines a jazz sensibility with middle-eastern rhythms, klezmer sounds and free improvisations

Ayelet Rose Gottlieb's (Composer, Arranger, Vocalist) sound draws on a wide range of musical approaches. In her music you will find a unique improvisational approach infused with elaborate composition, spiced up with Middle Eastern scales and adventurous texts. She currently resides in New York City and was born in 1979 in Jerusalem, Israel. Her mother's family traces Sephardic roots in Jerusalem ...

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Julio Santillan Trio at Rose in Brooklyn - March 11

Source: All About Jazz
February 24, 2008

Tuesday, MARCH 11, 8:30pm JULIO SANTILLAN TRIO “Santillan and company have found a way to weave together startling tapestries of color that splash both surprise and warm feelings everywhere as they move a cultural fusion into the future." --Boston Herald NUNO ANTUNES: Clarinet DAVID SILLIMAN: percussion JULIO SANTILLAN: guitar / voice ROSE LIVE MUSIC 345 Grand Street (btwn Havemeyer & Marcy) Williamsburg (Brooklyn), NY 11211 tel. 718-599-0069 free! JULIO SANTILLAN TRIO To describe the ...

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Sten Hostfalt / Matt Renzi / Marko Djordjevic Bowery Poetry Club, Feb 25

Source: All About Jazz
February 22, 2008

LIVE at THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB, NYC Monday, FEBRUARY 25 2008 at 9 pm $8 cover Sten Hostfalt - Guitar, Compositions Matt Renzi - Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet Marko Djordjevic - Drums “Renzi is Ready for Prime Time" - JAZZIZ Magazine “Djordjevic is a Drumming Star" - MODERN DRUMMER “Hostfalt May be Considered Groundbreaking"- JAZZ REVIEW

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The Grande Mothers to Tour Great Britain

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
February 22, 2008

Former Frank Zappa and The Mothers Members Prepare to Play The UK Los Angeles, CA - Seminal music group, The Grande Mothers, featuring former members of Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention, are alive and well and playing a series of selected concerts in Great Britain in March 2007. In recent years the Grande Mothers have performed to wildly enthusiastic audiences in the US and Canada and plan to bring their special blend of musical mayhem to the British shores. The ...

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Sean Smith Quartet @ 55 Bar on Tuesday, March 4, 7-9PM

Source: All About Jazz
February 22, 2008

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