Performance / Tour News

Font Presents: New Trumpet Underground (Fri & Sat) John Fischer with Perry Robinson (Sun) This Weekend at Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
September 29, 2007

CORNELIA STREET CAFE 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York 212-989-9319 between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, V, F to West 4th St. This Weekend At Cornelia Street Cafe Fri Sep 28 9:00PM FONT PRESENTS: NEW TRUMPET UNDERGROUND - DAY ONE (Nicole Rampersaud Quintet; Nicole Rampersaud, trumpet, cornet;Saen Berry, tenor saxophone;Lefteris Kordis, piano;Kendall Eddy, bass;Austin McMahon, drums) ...

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Memphis' Daddy Mack Returns from Tour to Play Center for Southern Folklore

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2007

PLACE: Center For Southern Folklore Store, 123 S. Main Street @ Peabody Trolley Stop, Downtown Memphis DATES: Saturday Night, October 6, 2007, 7:30 p.m. ADMISSION: $5.00

Just back from an eye-opening tour of the Western United States, the Daddy Mack Blues Band returns to the Center for Southern Folklore store Saturday night, October 6. Showtime is 7:30 p.m.

When he first headed out, Mack didn't know what to expect, but he soon learned that blues lovers ...

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Gongzilla News: Official Umphrey's After-Shows in October

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2007

Gongzilla is proud to be part of The Echo Project, Atlanta's first annual eco-responsible music and arts festival happening October 12-14. Hope you can join us there on Friday the 12th!

The Echo Project

Gongzilla's Official Umphrey's After-shows in October:

Tuesday, 16 October 2007 Cary Street Cafe 2631 West Cary Street Richmond, Virginia 23220 804.353.7445 show: 10:00 pm two 90-minute sets (three miles from Toad's Place) ...

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Jazz Mondays at Turning Point Cafe, Piermont, NY

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
September 28, 2007

September 28, 2007 To: Listings/Critics/Features LIVE JAZZ Returns to the Turning Point Cafe Piermont, N.Y., all Mondays Starting in October

Monday Oct 1 Trumpeter Scott Wendholt Quartet Mike Holober-piano Ugonna Okegwo-bass Andy Watson -drums Sets at 8pm and 9:30pm- $10

Mondays Oct 8,15, 22, 29 Saxophonist John Richmond Quartet Eliot Zigmund, drums Chris Haney, bass Oct 8: Tim Harrison, piano ...

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Stephen Scott Joins Sathima Bea Benjamin for Her Birthday Concert

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2007

South African jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin celebrates the reissue of A Morning in Paris--her 1963 masterpiece recorded with Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and Abdullah Ibrahim as pianists--as well as her 71st birthday, with a performance at Sweet Rhythm on Wednesday, October 17, 2007. Joining Sathima for the concert are pianists Stephen Scott and Onaje Allan Gumbs, bassist Marcus McLaurine, and drummer George Gray. Sets are at 8 pm and 10 pm, $20 cover with a $10 drink minimum. For ...

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Mike Baggetta Trio at Big Apple Jazz Tonight!

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2007

The Mike Baggetta Trio will be the featured act at Big Apple Jazz tonight in Harlem as part of Lewis Porter's curated month of September at the club.

Mike Baggetta - Guitar Chris van Voorst van Beest - Bass Tommy Crane - Drums

Friday, September 28th 8:30pm - 11:30pm $10

Big Apple Jazz 2236 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd. (7th Ave. B/X 131st and 132nd Sts.) ...

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Charles Tolliver's Music Inc Continuum Featured in Reggie Workman's Sculptured Sounds Series @ Twins Jazz, Oct. 5 & 6

Source: The Cinarae Group
September 28, 2007

If Charles Tolliver were listed in Websters's Dictionary there'd definitely be one word next to his name - INTENSE. Beginning his professional career with the saxophone giant, Jackie MacLean in 1964, this hard-blowing trumpeter has since recorded and/or performed with such renowned artists as Roy Haynes, Horace Silver, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Booker Ervin, The Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Oliver Nelson, Roy Ayers, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, and Max Roach. Tolliver's recent Blue Note Big-Band release “With Love" is ...

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Count Basie Orchestra Performs with Special Guest Nnenna Freelon and Paquito D'Rivera Quintet at the Kimmel Center, September 28

Source: Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
September 28, 2007

Kimmel Center Presents Mellon Jazz Sponsored by The Bank of New York Mellon

Timeless jazz performers, Nnenna Freelon with the Count Basie Orchestra, and the Paquito D'Rivera Quintet share the bill on the Verizon Hall stage at the Kimmel Center Friday, September 28, 2007 at 8pm in Verizon Hall to kick off the Mellon Jazz Fridays Series for the Kimmel Center Presents Sponsored by Citi 2007/2008 season. The tour celebrates a recent collaborative recording between Nnenna Freelon and the Count ...

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