Performance / Tour News

Les Paul (Tonight)Mingus Big Band (Tue.) Dec. 14-18 Cecil Taylor Presents Aha at The Iridium Jazz Club

Source: All About Jazz
December 12, 2005

To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121, www.iridiumjazzclub.com Sets at 8 & 10PM EVERY MONDAY LES PAUL AND HIS TRIO EVERY TUESDAY THE MINGUS BIG BAND This Week at The Iridium Dec. 14-18 CECIL TAYLOR PRESENTS AHA CECIL TAYLOR-PIANO JACKSON KRALL-DRUMS ALBEY BALGOCHIAN-BASS SABIR MATEEN-TENOR ELLIOT LEVIN-TENOR JD PARRAN-SAX BILL LOWE-TUBA STEVE SWELL-TROMBONE AMIR-TRUMPET TAYLOR HO BYNUM-TRUMPET TOBIAS NETTA-TRUMPET JEFF HOYER-TROMBONE STEPHEN ...

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Composers Collaborative (Mon.) Morrison Motel(Tue.) Po' Jazz (Thurs.) & More This Week at Cornelia St. Cafe

Source: All About Jazz
December 12, 2005

To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St. This Week at Cornelia Street Cafe Dec 12 - Dec 18 Monday Dec 12 6:00PM EROTICA Polly Frost, host Polly Frost presents an evening of erotic poetry and prose. It's ...

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Gary Lucas NYC Double Hit This Week

Source: All About Jazz
December 12, 2005

To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Longtime New Yorker GARY LUCAS returns from a tour of Australia to play 2 Manhattan shows this week: On Tuesday Dec. 13th, Gary Lucas plays solo acoustic as part of the new Epistrophy Cafe's “What If...? Festival" on a double bill with Andy Statman. The Epistrophy Cafe is located at 200 Mott Street (between Spring and Kenmare), and Gary plays at 9pm,. Tickets are $15, seating is imited so ...

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Vandermark 5: The Color of Memory Tour

Source: All About Jazz
December 12, 2005

Ken Vandermark's quintet, Vandermark 5 are hitting the road January and February to support their latest Atavistic double-cd release, The Color of Memory (released Fall 2005).

This will mark the North American debut tour of new line up, which now includes cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm who joined the band after Jeb Bishop's departure last fall. They'll be performing reconstructed compositions from their double-cd release The Color of Memory as well as new pieces written in preparation for their November European tour. ...

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Berkana 12/13 @ Trumpets Jazz Club, NJ

Source: All About Jazz
December 12, 2005

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Legendary Bassist Reggie Workman Directs Dual Presentation Concerts @ The New School Jazz Performance Space, Mon., Dec. 12. Free.

Source: All About Jazz
December 12, 2005

Legendary Bassist Reggie Workman directs an evening of exciting music performed by two dynamic ensembles.

By popular demand, at 9pm The John Coltrane Ensemble will give a repeat performance of classic Coltrane music in the New School Jazz Performance Space. Preceding The Coltrane Ensemble, at 7pm The Futuristic Concepts Ensemble will perform a concert of contemporary works.

DUAL PRESENTATION CONCERTS

The Futuristic Ensemble Directed By Reggie Workman

Featuring Students from the New School University Jazz

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Deborah Latz at Sweet Rhythm Tuesday, December 13, 8pm & 10pm

Source: All About Jazz
December 12, 2005

November 23, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Sweet Rhythm http://www.sweetrhythmny.com 88 Seventh Avenue South (btn. Grove and Bleecker) NYC 212 255 3626 Tuesday, December 13, 8pm & 10pm $15 door/$10 minimum with Rick Germanson, piano Bob Bowen, bass Elizabeth Keledjian, drums “Deborah [Latz] has one of the BEST new voices I've heard in a LONG time. Her phrasing and unique style is simply...elegant and versatile and spunky!" - Jan Jenson, Jazz Now “...a ...

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Microtonal Guitar Virtuoso STEN HOSTFALT NYC Solo Concert Performance

Source: All About Jazz
December 12, 2005

Acknowledged as One Of The World's Foremost Microtonal Improvisers On The Guitar, after a decade of creative work alongside leading names in Jazz as enthusiastically documented by Jazz Times Magazine, The New York Times, Guitar Player Magazine, All Music Guide & AllAboutJazz currently announced as “An Innovator, On The Cutting Edge On The NYC Music Scene", 6-string virtuoso/composer/live electronica performer STEN HOSTFALT hits EAT Records, 124 Meserole Ave. Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY with a 7 pm/no cover Sunday December 18th 2005 ...

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