Performance / Tour News

The Carolyn Leonhart & Wayne Escoffery Group @ Smoke NYC - Feb 14-16 2008

Source: Two for the Show Media
January 9, 2008

The Carolyn Leonhart & Wayne Escoffery Group will be performing at SMOKE Jazz Club in NYC for a Valentines Weekend celebration on February 14th, 15th & 16th, 2008. The Carolyn Leonhart & Wayne Escoffery Group Carolyn Leonhart - vocals Wayne Escoffery - tenor & soprano saxophones Kevin Hays- piano Ugonna Okegwo- bass Billy Drummond- drums “Leonhart inflects her jazz singing with an unmistakable dose of soul and R & B, ...

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Misha Piatigorsky Trio Live at Smoke Jazz Club NYC on January 31st, 2008

Source: Two for the Show Media
January 9, 2008

Pianist, Composer, & Bandleader Misha Piatigorsky will be performing with his Trio at SMOKE Jazz Club in NYC on Thursday, January 31st, 2008. Sets at 8:00, 10:00, & 11:30 PM “Misha Piatigorsky is perhaps the most gifted of all the great pianists I've had accompany me over the years." --Mark Murphy The Misha Piatigorsky Trio Misha Piatigorsky - Piano Boris Kozlov -Bass Ari Hoenig - Drums Misha Piatigorsky bio: Misha Piatigorsky, winner of the ...

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Victor Prieto Trio at Smalls in NYC on January 23rd, 2008

Source: Two for the Show Media
January 9, 2008

Victor Prieto Trio will be performing at Smalls in NYC Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008- 9:30 PM & 11:00 PM The Victor Prieto Trio Victor Prieto-Accordion Carlo DeRosa- Bass Ted Poor-Drums “Prieto plays accordion the way Toots Thielmans plays harmonica or Dino Saluzzi plays bandoneon. He transcends the instrument and just plays music. The key features of Prieto's music are lyricism and drama. He writes fine, memorable melodies, then works with the band to create ...

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Harlem in the Himalayas Series Presents the Jonathan Batiste Trio - 1/18/08

Source: Two for the Show Media
January 9, 2008

Pianist, composer, and bandleader Jonathan Batiste will be performing with his trio as part of the Harlem in the Himalayas series at the Rubin Museum in New York City on January 18th, 2008. The Jonathan Batiste Trio: Jonathan Batiste, piano Phillip Kuehn, bass Joe Saylor, drums Jonathan Batiste Bio: Jonathan Batiste was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1986. He was first introduced to music through his family's band, the Batiste Brothers Band, in ...

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Northern Lights Jazz Series Presents NYNDK at Dizzys Club Coca Cola - NYC 2/4/08

Source: Two for the Show Media
January 9, 2008

The Northern Lights Jazz Series (Jazz from Denmark) features the Trans-Atlantic jazz collective--NYNDK--for one night only! Come celebrate the release of their new Jazzheads release Nordic Disruption at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola in NYC- Monday, February 4th, 2008. 7:30 Set -Sold Out - 9:30- show available. NYNDK is made up of: Chris Washburne, trombone Soren Moller, piano Ole Mathisen, saxophones Per Mathisen, bass Jeff Davis, drums “Pointedly cosmopolitan post-bop collective" ...

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Kimmel Center Jazz Calendar March & April 2008

Source: All About Jazz
January 9, 2008

KIMMEL CENTER PRESENTS Mellon Jazz Up Close: AFRICA Richard Bona Band With Lionel Loueke, guitar Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 7:30pm Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center Price: $37, $43 Dubbed the “African Sting," Cameroonian bassist-vocalist-composer Bona maintains his universal appeal by using a hybrid effect combining African influences with Latin rhythms, jazz, bossa nova, pop and funk. Beninian guitarist, Loueke, has worked with Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard and Charlie ...

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Dave Stryker Trio @ Shanghai Jazz This Fri Jan 11th at 7 & 9 PM

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
January 9, 2008

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Hip Hop Artist Jean Grae to Perform with Her Mother, Vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin

Source: All About Jazz
January 9, 2008

The New York-based hip hop star Jean Grae will join her mother, the legendary South African jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin, onstage at New York's Sweet Rhythm jazz club on Wednesday, January 23, 2008. This concert will mark the first time the two have performed together.

The performance also celebrates the re-issue of Sathima's 1963 debut album A Morning in Paris, which features Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and Sathima's husband Abdullah Ibrahim all accompanying her on the piano. Due out ...

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