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Rondi Charleston And Her All Star Band Perform On June 12th At Catalina Jazz Club - Only Los Angeles Area Performance

Source: GoMedia PR
June 7, 2013

* * * PRINT THIS PAGE & PRESENT AT SHOW TO REDEEM FOR A FREE COCKTAIL WITH TICKET PURCHASE * * * Critically lauded vocalist, songwriter and lyricist Rondi Charleston brings her All Star Band to Catalina Jazz Club in Los Angeles for one show only, on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Charleston is performing in support of her March release on Motema Music, Signs of Life. The CD, some two months on the Jazz Week Radio Chart, has ...

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John McLaughlin To Tour The U.S. June 11-23 Including Bonnaroo And A 3-Night Stint At The Blue Note In New York

Source: Abstract Logix
June 7, 2013

Los Angeles, CA: World-renowned guitarist John McLaughlin, is set to begin his first U.S. tour in three years. The tour begins on June 11th in Durham, NC and will hit Asheville, DC, Bethlehem, Boston and a 3-night stand in New York City at the Blue Note before ending in Toronto on June 23rd. McLaughlin and his legendary 4th Dimension band will also make a special appearance at this year’s Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, Tennessee on June 14th. “Since I last ...

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Jazz This Week: Rick Haydon Quartet, Terence Blanchard, Ragtime at Scott Joplin's House, Oikos Ensemble, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 7, 2013

If you're looking to get out hear some live jazz in St. Louis, there's there's plenty of local music on tap over the weekend, with some new weekly gigs getting underway, plus some visiting players coming to town to play free concerts next week. Let's go to the highlights: Tonight, singer Joe Mancuso and his band begin a new weekly Thursday gig at Cafe Eau in the Chase Park Plaza Hotel, and Miss Jubilee performs downtown at Thaxton Speakeasy. On ...

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Kermit Ruffins to Perform Wednesday, July 24 and Thursday, July 25 at the Gramophone

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 7, 2013

This just in: via the Twitter feed of Basin Street Records, StLJN has learned that New Orleans trumpeter and singer Kermit Ruffins (pictured) will be coming to St. Louis to perform on Wednesday, July 24 and Thursday, July 25 at The Gramophone. Ruffins is a fixture on the New Orleans scene, playing weekly gigs with his band the Barbecue Swingers at various spots, most notably Vaughan's Lounge, where he recorded a live album in 2007. Ruffins also has been a ...

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Dirty Dozen Brass Band to Play Sunday, June 23 at off Broadway

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 6, 2013

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band (pictured) is returning to St. Louis to play at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, June 23 at a new venue for them, the south side rock club Off Broadway. The best-known popularizers of the modern New Orleans brass band sound, DDBB made their most recent visit to St. Louis in May of last year to play at the Old Rock House. This time, they're playing the same night that their fellow New Orleans based band Bonerama is ...

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Concert Paying Tribute to Ross Gentile Set for Sunday, September 8 at Siue

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 5, 2013

A concert paying tribute to the late Ross Gentile is scheduled for 8:00 p.m., Sunday, September 8 in the Meridian Ballroom, located in the Morris University Center on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Gentile (pictured) hosted the “Standards In Jazz" program on WSIE for 15 years, at one point working on-air for the station seven days a week. He also worked as a DJ for WIBV, KSHE and WZQZ, and was a regular presence as an MC at ...

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Santana Legend Gregg Rolie To Play "Sandstock" Virginia Beach Music Festival - June 22, 2013

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
June 5, 2013

Houston, TX: Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Gregg Rolie, best known for his vocals and keyboard work with legendary music groups Santana and Journey, will be performing at 'Sandstock' Virginia Beach Music Festival on June 22, 2013. The Gregg Rolie Band will be playing electrifying versions of several Santana classics such as “Evil Ways", “Black Magic Woman", “Soul Sacrifice", “Jingo" and “No One To Depend On" as well as tracks from Rolie's previous studio effort 'Roots', along with ...

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WBGO Travel Series Makes Stops In Montreal, Newport, Orvieto, Mohonk

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
June 5, 2013

WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM Launches WBGO Travel: A Musical Journey Around the World with Stops in Montreal, Newport, Mohonk and Orvieto Newark, NJ: WBGO Jazz 88.3 loves its home base in Newark, NJ, but when it comes to enjoying jazz at some of the world’s most beautiful destinations, the station’s travel team has its bags packed and is ready to roll. WBGO Travel designs first-class packages for visits to amazing domestic and international locations for world-famous jazz festivals and deluxe ...

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