Performance / Tour News

Sathima Bea Benjamin "A Morning in Paris" CD Release Event at Sweet Rhythm Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 20, 2007

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 Sathima Bea Benjamin Stephen Scott - piano Buster Williams - bass George Gray - drums Celebrating The Reissue of “A Morning In Paris" , Her Debut Album Featuring Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and Abdullah Ibrahim Sets at 8 & 10PM Sweet Rhythm 88 Seventh Avenue South (at Bleecker St) New York, NY ...

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Synergy at the Brecht Forum December 29, 8:30PM

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 20, 2007

SYNERGY Sight and Sound Featuring Amir Bey, Set Design, Costumes Saco Yasuma, Alto, Compositions With Ras Moshe, Woodwinds; Dave Ross, Guitar Chris Sullivan, Bass; Lou Grassi, Drums Will Perform 2 Sets @ The Brecht Forum 451 West Street between Bank and Bethune On Saturday, December 29, 2007 8:30 PM SYNERGY Sight and Sound will give a ...

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Progressive Rock Group Tin Scribble Records New Live CD

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
December 20, 2007

Detroit, MI - Out of the depths of the Michigan music scene arises one of the most innovative prog-rock group's to emerge on these Eastern shores in quite some time. Tin Scribble, who's debut CD release from 2005 Children of Saturn garnered critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, is preparing to re-record the epic in its entirety live. An ambitious project that will come to fruition on Jan 12, 2008 in Detroit.

Led by guitarist/vocalist Michael Moore, Tin ...

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The Stryker / Slagle Band Fri. Dec 21 St @ 9:30 & 11 PM at the Goat

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 20, 2007

Fri. Dec 21 st @ 9:30 & 11 PM The Goat 21 So. Orange Ave So. Orange, NJ 973-275-9000 “Guitarist Dave Stryker and Saxophonist Steve Slagle's quartet produces an expert, agile bit of modern jazz on Latest Outlook. This is the music's mainstream in plain view: compact and driving charts filled with tag-team post-bop, early 21st century complexity and a guest spot for saxophonist Joe Lovano." -Greg Buium Down Beat April 2007 ...

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Elektra Kurtis and Ensemble Elektra Present Infusion Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 4PM Bowery Poetry Club

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 20, 2007

Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery @ Houston Street New York, NY 10012 Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 4pm Elektra Kurtis and Ensemble Elektra present INFUSION It's a music genre that mirrors the contemporary urban world. Elements from old cultures and contemporary music are absorbed and infused with music traditions from distant places, creating a mosaic of Old with New, Eastern with Western, Southern with Northern. Musicians: Elektra Kurtis - violin and composition, Curtis Stewart - violin, ...

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Hector Martignon and the Foreign Affair Thursday December 20th, 9:30 PM at Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 20, 2007

Please Join... HECTOR MARTIGNON and the FOREIGN AFFAIR Celebrating the NOMINATION of their CD REFUGEE for a '08 GRAMMY At the NUYORICAN POETS CAFE (3rd Str, bet, B and C avs) Thursday December 20th, 9:30 PM Featuring: Fellow GRAMMY nomine BOBBY SANABRIA (dr) VINNY VALENTINO (guit) ARTURO STABLE (perc) EDWARD PEREZ (b) HECTOR MARTIGNON (p) And many great ...

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Timucin Sahin & Randy Brecker European Tour

Source: All About Jazz
December 19, 2007

One of the most outstanding guitarist/composer of today's contemporary jazz is joining his forces with trumpet hero in a rather special quartet setting.

Timucin Sahin has been recognized as one of today's truly unique voices of contemporary jazz music by publications such as San Francisco Bay Guardian, AllaboutJazz, Jazzwise and Jazz-Times as well as by many others. His unique sound on fretless electric guitar and his emotional content in his composing made him non-comparable and his music almost impossible to ...

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Mark Murphy January 16-19 (Wed-Sat) at Birdland

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 19, 2007

MARK MURPHY with Joshua Wolff - piano Dmitri Kolesnik - bass Chris Higginbottom - drums Brian Newman - Trumpet January 16-19 (Wed. thru Sat.) At BIRDLAND 315 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036 212.581.3080 Show times 8:30 & 11pm Mark Murphy is one of the world's greatest -- and hippest -- jazz vocalists performing today. His coterie of fans ...

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