Performance / Tour News

Local Voices@Kennedy Center

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2005

Next week two local favorites will take the stage at the Kennedy Center’s KC Jazz Club. Located on the Kennedy Center’s rooftop level, the KC Jazz Club is the latest innovation of the Kennedy Center’s jazz program. An intimate club setting with a fully raised stage, bar, and gorgeous acoustics, the club combines the atmosphere of a local venue with the national stature and presence of the Kennedy Center.

September 8, 2005 A regular performer circa the 1940s in Washington's ...

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Keely Smith Opens "Highlights In Jazz" 33rd Season Thursday, October 6 at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2005

September 1, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] For Immediate Release Keely Smith Opens “Highlights In Jazz" 33rd Season at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center Thursday, October 6, 2005 at 8PM New York, NY September 1, 2005 Jack Kleinsinger's “Highlights in Jazz," New York's longest running jazz series is pleased to announce that legendary vocalist Keely Smith will open their 33rd season Thursday, October 6, 2005 at 8PM. Keely Smith (b. Dorothy Jaqueline Keely ...

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Mingus Big Band Continues Every Tuesday at the Iridium Jazz Club Sets at 8 &10PM

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2005

September 1, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: Iridium Jazz Club 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 EVERY TUESDAY MINGUS BIG BAND! Sets at 8 & 10PM The hippest big band in the universe - robust, earthy, sanctified." Time Out New York The band personnel changes from week to week though many musicians are in the band more often than others. Still, it is always a surprise. Musicians ...

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All-Dave Brubeck Concert At Frederick P. Rose Hall Wednesday, September 14, at 8 P.M.

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2005

September 1, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES For Immediate Release ALL-DAVE BRUBECK CONCERT AT FREDERICK P. ROSE HALL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, AT 8 P.M. HIGHLIGHTS 10-DAY NY JEWISH MUSIC HERITAGE FESTIVAL Concert Features: World Premiere of Brubeck’s “The Commandments" Performance of Brubeck's “The Gates of Justice" Classic Jazz Works by Dave Brubeck Quartet Legendary jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck will unveil his new six-minute choral work, The Commandments, performed a cappella by the 90-member Providence Singers, Wednesday, ...

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Wess "Warmdaddy" Anderson at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2005

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola Performance Schedule for August 29-September 4 August 30 – September 4 - Wess “Warmdaddy” Anderson Quartet AFTER HOURS WITH GREG BANDY & THE BANDITS (New York, NY) August 29, 2005 - Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola -- located in The House of Swing, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall – presents saxophonist Wess “Warmdaddy” Anderson, one of the major figures in the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and in Wynton Marsalis’ Septet for many ...

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Argentine vocalist Sofia Koutsovitis' Group @ Satalla 9/2!

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2005

Sofia Koutsovitis Group @ Satalla Friday, September 2, 2005 7:30pm ONE NIGHT ONLY!

featuring: Sofia Koutsovitis, vocals; Dan Blake, soprano and tenor sax; Adam Schneit, alto sax /clarinet; Eric Bloom, trumpet; Leo Genovese, piano; Jorge Roeder, bass; Richie Barshay, drums; Jorge Perez Albela, percussion

“Sofia Koutsovitis is a remarkable singer. Her rich, warm alto is equally at home with quick latin rhythms and sensuous ballads.

Her sound appeals right to your heart, but her ...

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Walter Beasley@Birchmere

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2005

Veteran saxophonist, vocalist, educator, and dedicated performer Walter Beasley will hit the Birchmere stage next week to celebrate the release of his Heads Up debut album For Her.

A versatile player, Beasley is known for his crowd-pleasing shows and diversity of styles. Over more than two decades of recording and performance, Beasley has partnered with a stellar cast from both the jazz and R&B world, including Stephanie Mills, Vanessa Williams, Brian McKnight, Gerald Albright, Kirk Whalum, Art Blakey and the ...

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Lenore Raphael Trio -Dizzy's Club Coca Cola 9/15

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2005

Lenore Raphael reunites the trio on her CD “A Beautiful Friendship" for her “After Hours" performance at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Lincoln Center on Wednesday, September 15th,as part of the “Diet Coca-Cola Women In Jazz festival...a month-long tribute to women who have influenced and made great contributions to jazz. Jazz writer John Gilbert has called Lenore “one of the top pianists in our art form...she always swings". Lenore and her trio with Hilliard Greene on bass and Rudy Lawless on ...

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