Performance / Tour News

Fred Adams & The Phila. Heritage Art Ensemble In Collingswood NJ On Thurs. Feb. 7th!

Source: Jim Miller
January 16, 2013

Appearing at the Collingswood Community Center—30 East Collings Avenue in Collingswood, New Jersey—on Thursday February 7th, is trumpeter Fred Adams and his Philadelphia Heritage Art Ensemble. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available at the door only. Showtime is 7:30 p.m.

Originally a New Yorker, but raised in Philadelphia in the '60s, Fred Adams is an incredibly versatile, forward-looking and forward-thinking jazz trumpeter, is the director of the Philadelphia Heritage Art Ensemble, and has toured the world and ...

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Jazz This Week: The Bad Plus, Caboladies, Brett Walberg, a Tribute to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 16, 2013

It looks to be a full weekend of jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with one of the top trios in jazz making a return visit to our fair city; an up-and-coming saxophonist making his local debut; an intriguing program of electronic music and video; a couple of local concert series presenting their first offerings of 2013; plus, as the saying goes, much more. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, The Bad Plus return to St. Louis for their ...

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Martha Lorin To Appear At Metropiltan Room On Feb 11th @ 9:30pm

Source: Lampkin Publicity Service
January 16, 2013

Award winning jazz singer, Martha Lorin, brings iN 2013 with a new show at the Metropolitan Room in New York, featuring jazz greats Vic Juris (guitar) and Harvie S (bass) Martha Lorin in “Love Songs for Jazz Lovers" One Show Only! Monday, February 11th, 2013 Time: 9:30 p.m. (period) Music Cover: $20.00 Two Drink Minimum Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) 212-206-0440 Critically acclaimed jazz ...

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Webster University Announces Winter/Spring 2013 Schedule of Jazz Concerts

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 14, 2013

The music department at Webster University has announced their schedule of jazz events for winter and spring 2013. This semester's Monday night concert series will get started with a performance by Two Times True at 7:00 p.m. Monday, January 28 at Winifred Moore Auditorium, 470 E. Lockwood on the Webster campus. The group features pianist and Webster University adjunct professor Carolbeth True (pictured) and her son, drummer David True, along with bassist Glenn Smith, saxophonist Larry Johnson, and guest vocalist ...

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Toni Redd Performs At The Metropolitan Club In New York

Source: Cres O'Neal
January 13, 2013

Toni Redd Performs At The Metropolitan Room In New York, NY Washington, DC: National recording artist, Vocalist, Toni Redd, takes center stage at the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, NY, NY, Friday, April 19, 2013 for 2 shows, 9:30 PM and 11:30 PM. Georgian born songstress, Toni Redd, is an internationally known vocalist with an intense style. The captivating and sultry vocal styling of Toni Redd combines traditional jazz, pop, classic soul, and urban rhythm & blues to create ...

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Sierra Jazz Society January Concert With Faculty And Students

Source: Nora Nausbaum
January 13, 2013

Grass Valley jazz: Bill Douglass leads the musical lineup including John Girton, Kit Bailey, Nora Nausbaum, Al Bent and SJS students. Our special guests are jazz vocalist Beth Duncan and jazzharpist Motoshi Kosako. We'll serve complimentary Coffee and cookies. Join us on January 19 at 2 pm for the last in our Winter Concert series. Venue will be the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains at 246 S. Church Street, Grass Valley (at the corner of Walsh and Church). The ...

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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 11-17

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
January 12, 2013

Music from all over the map defines Twin Cities Live Jazz this weekend and into next week. From the oddball instrumentation of Lulu's Playground to the enduring songs of Jimmy Van Heusen, from the original works of Chris Bates and Red 5 to the exciting rhythms of the Latin Jazz All-Stars and the youthful energy of some South High alums, there's certainly something for everyone in Jazzland. Highlights This Week Friday, January 11. Long-time Twin Cities resident Bruce Henry returns ...

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Eric Marienthal to Perform with Bach to the Future on Friday, March 29 at the Sheldon

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 12, 2013

Saxophonist Eric Marienthal will join forces with St. Louis' Bach to the Future for a performance at 7:00 p.m. Friday, March 29 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Organized by Bach to the Future keyboardist Mike Silverman, the “Autumn Hill Jazz Festival," as the show is being billed, also will feature singer/trumpeter Dawn Weber's trio and pianist Ptah Williams. (Autumn Hill is the label name used by Silverman and BTTF to release their recordings.) Marienthal is a Berklee graduate who first ...

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