Performance / Tour News

Henry Mancini Institute's HMI Big Band Performs at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in Jazz at Lincoln Center on March 6

Source: All About Jazz
February 16, 2006

The Henry Mancini Institute's HMI Big Band will perform two 10th Anniversary Celebration Concerts on Monday, March 6th at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola. Tickets remain available for the 2nd show only, which begins at 9:30pm. $15 cover, two drink minimum.

Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola is located within Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall at Broadway and 60th Street in Manhattan. For tickets, please call 212-258-9595, or visit www.jalc.org.

The Henry Mancini Institute (HMI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission ...

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The Frank and Joe Show At The Iridium Jazz Club Monday, February 20th Sets at 8 & 10PM

Source: All About Jazz
February 16, 2006

IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121, www.iridiumjazzclub.com Sets at 8 & 10PM The Iridium Jazz Club Is Pleased To Present... The Frank and Joe Show Monday, February 20, 2006 Featuring Selected Songs From The Les Paul Songbook.... Frank Vignola - guitar Joe Ascione - drums Vinny Raniolo - guitar Special Guest Mark Egan - bass Monday nights at the Iridium are usually reserved for guitar legend Les Paul, but while Les is ...

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Edsel Gomez at the Vermont Jazz Center on 2/18/06

Source: All About Jazz
February 16, 2006

VERMONT JAZZ CENTER 72 COTTON MILL HILL, #222 BRATTLEBORO, VT, 05301

VJC TO PRESENT CUBIST-LATIN MUSIC WITH THE EDSEL GOMEZ TRIO ON FEBRUARY 18TH AT 8:00 PM.

On Saturday, February 18th, at 8:00 PM, the Vermont Jazz Center presents a concert with Puerto Rican born, pianist, Edsel Gomez and his trio including bassist Brittish bassist Howard Britz and Venezuelan drummer Tony De Vivo. Gomez will be performing music inspired by both his Latin heritage as well ...

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Shobee's Wu Li at Bar Nine March 1, 2006

Source: All About Jazz
February 15, 2006

The Wu Li start their monthly party at Bar Nine in Hell's Kitchen. The line up could not be better. It features Shobee - electric trumpet, Adam Strum - guitar, Maxfield Gast - saxaphones and EWI, Ben Rubin - bass and Matt Zebroski - drums plus special guests. The Wu Li are forever searching for the ultimate high in groove and free improvisations connecting the world one show at a time. Bar ...

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Alex Heitlinger Art Lande Duo Performance Denver February 17th 2006

Source: All About Jazz
February 15, 2006

Creative Music Works and The Coalition For Creative Music present a unique evening of improvisational dialog with Alex Heitlinger and Art Lande. Alex Heitlinger was born in Minneapolis in 1980 and started playing the trombone at age 11 at the encouragement of his mother, a music teacher. He received a full scholarship to attend the University of Colorado in Boulder and received a BM in trombone performance in 2002 and was the first jazz player to receive the prestigious Fiske ...

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Bassist Alex Bellegarde, from Montreal, plays with Clarinetist Neal Haiduck in NYC

Source: All About Jazz
February 15, 2006

Bassist Alex Bellegarde, a prominent player on the Montreal scene, will join American jazz Clarinetist Neal Haiduck for a weekend of jazz in New York City, beginning Friday, February 24, when the duo will play swinging Modern Jazz with Rob Garcia, drums, and Nathan Bloom, guitar, at Detour, East 13th Street at First Avenue. Sets begin at 9 p.m. No cover. (Take the IRT to Union Square.) Bellegarde's visit is made possible, in part, by the generosity of the Conseil ...

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Sten Hostfalt Solo @ The Backroom, NYC, Feb 17th

Source: All About Jazz
February 15, 2006

Described as “An Innovator On The Cutting Edge On The NYC Scene", “Genuinely Innovative", Groundbreaking", “Virtuosic" & “Highly Exceptional" - TIME OUT NY, Guitar player Magazine, Cadence, Jazz Now, All About Jazz recommended microtonal guitar virtuoso/live electronica performer STEN HOSTFALT appears SOLO at THE BACKROOM (aka Freddy's Backroom), BKLYN New York on FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17th 2006 at 9.30 pm/ no cover. venue address 485 Dean Street, Brooklyn NY / web http://www.freddysbackroom.com transit 1/2 to Bergen or ...

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Debut Concert of Metropolis Ensemble featuring jazz great Marty Ehrlich

Source: All About Jazz
February 15, 2006

The Metropolis Ensemble, a new chamber orchestra bringing together the talents of an emerging generation of performers who have already begun to reshape the sound and feel of music making in New York, will present their first concert on Thursday, February 16, 2006 at 8 pm at the Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts, 172 Norfolk Street. For its debut concert, “Voices of Night", the Metropolis Ensemble joins forces with two musicians, saxophonist Marty Ehrlich, “one of the premier ...

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