Performance / Tour News

Gene Ess "Sandbox & Sanctum" Quartet @ Freddy's Backroom, Nov 4, 2005 10:00PM

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2005

Guitarist, Gene Ess, draws the traits that identify his style with firm brush strokes. On the one hand, we have his jazz streak, and on the other hand, his exquisite sensitivity with the guitar, and as a final complement, his taste for sophisticated rhythms. The music from Gene's latest album “Sandbox and Sanctum - Song Cycle for Quartet" will be featured.

Here are some of what the press is saying about Gene Ess:

H. Allen Williams, Jazzreview Throughout ...

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Ellis Marsalis Brings the Sounds of the Big Easy to the Kimmel Center

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2005

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Richard Underhill 'Moment in Time' CD Launch Party - Nov 15th - Montreal Bistro

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2005

RICHARD UNDERHILL Moment in Time CD Launch Party Tuesday, November 15th - Montreal Bistro - 8pm 65 Sherbourne Street Reservations Recommended (dinner) - call 416.363.0179 $10 at the doors - $20 with a CD Toronto ON - Juno award winner, Richard Underhill is set to release 'Moment in Time,' a much anticipated new album showcasing 10 adventurous original compositions brought to life by an extraordinary band of Canadian ...

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Pink Martini at UCLA Live, June 22-23

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2005

"If life is a cabaret, Pink Martini is the band in the existential orchestra pit." - CMJ New Music Monthly Somewhere between a 1930s Cuban dance orchestra, a classical chamber music ensemble, a Brazilian marching street band and Japanese film noir is the 12-piece Pink Martini. Part language lesson, part Hollywood musical, the Portland, Oregon-based “little orchestra" was created in 1994 by Harvard graduate and classically trained pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale to play at political fundraisers for progressive causes such ...

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New Century Saxophone Quartet Blows Through Nightengale Concert Hall November 10

Source: All About Jazz
November 2, 2005

NEW CENTURY SAXOPHONE QUARTET BLOWS THROUGH NIGHTINGALE CONCERT HALL AS PART OF THE PERFORMING ARTS SERIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO

Combining “great technique and elegant musicianship with a wonderful sense of chamber music" (Fanfare), New Century Saxhophone Quartet is “doing for saxophones what Casals did for the cello and Segovia, the guitar" (Spectator). This pioneering group has earned rave reviews from critics and audiences worldwide for its diverse repertory of innovative contemporary works and imaginative adaptations in an ...

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Scott Barbarino & Barry Levitt present All MAC Jazz at The Iridium Jazz Club Wednesday, November 16th

Source: All About Jazz
November 2, 2005

November 3, 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 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Scott Barbarino & Barry Levitt Present ALL MAC JAZZ Celebrating Jazz Vocalists from The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs with the Barry Levitt Trio Cameron Brown-Bass, Brian Grice-Drums Wednesday, November 16th with featured vocalists Thos Shipley & Laura Theodore 8:30pm Laurie Krauz ...

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Selected Vocal Works of Steve Lacy and Brion Gysin Thursday, Nov. 10 @ 10:00 P.M.

Source: All About Jazz
November 2, 2005

November 3, 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. “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 Selected Vocal Works of Steve Lacy and Brion Gysin Performed by Monika ...

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Peter Apfelbaum & the New York Hieroglyphics - Fri. Nov. 4 at Symphony Space

Source: All About Jazz
November 2, 2005

PETER APFELBAUM & THE NEW YORK HIEROGLYPHICS celebrate the release of IT IS WRITTEN (ACT Music/High Note) FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 ~ 8:30 pm Symphony Space/Thalia Theatre Broadway @ 95th Street ~ 212-864-5400 Peter Apfelbaum (tenor sax/piano/percussion) Peck Allmond (trumpet/reeds) Josh Roseman (trombone) Jessica Jones (alto & tenor sax) Tony Jones (tenor sax) Dayna Stephens (tenor & baritone sax) Charles Burnham (violin)

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