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Jazz This Week: John Scofield Quartet, Dianne Reeves, Ahmad Jamal, Jan Shapiro, Kung Fu, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
November 2, 2011

It's shaping up to be another fairly busy week for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, particularly for the good folks at Jazz St. Louis, who are presenting touring headliners at two different venues, but there's lots going on elsewhere, too. Let's go to the highlights: Tonight, guitarist John Scofield opens a four-night stand at Jazz at the Bistro. For this visit, Scofield is downplaying his usual tendencies toward funk, and bringing a quartet playing relatively straightforward swing and ...

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Ayako Shirasaki Live on Tour in Germany & Switzerland, November 2011

Source: Jan Matthies Music Management
November 1, 2011

Experience Ayako Shirasaki, a Japanese jazz pianist now living in New York, live on tour November 17 -27, 2011 in Germany and Switzerland. A video for the tour announcement has been created at YouTube\ The latest CD of Ayako Shirasaki, “Falling Leaves—Live in Hamburg," made it into the “Best of 2010" lists by journalists of the Jazz Journalists Association. Ayako has not only garnered attention from the German media, the magazine Jazzthetik wrote that, ..."she shows that solo jazz piano ...

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Anzic Records Artists The 3 Cohens Live at The Village Vanguard - November 1-6

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
November 1, 2011

Anzic Records Artists the 3 COHENS Celebrate New Recording, FAMILY at The Village Vanguard, November 1-6! AVISHAI COHEN (trumpet), ANAT COHEN (tenor saxophone & clarinet), YUVAL COHEN (soprano saxophone), with Aaron Goldberg (piano), Omer Avital (bass), and Jonathan Blake (drums) The 3 Cohens Celebrate the Release of Family November 1-6, The Village Vanguard, NYC November 10, Scullers, Boston, MA November 1, Shalin Liu Performance Center—Rockport Music Hall, Rockport, MA November 12, Koerner Hall, Toronto (Double bill with The Jamey Haddad ...

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Pianist Laszlo Gardony Performs at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on November 2

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
October 31, 2011

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Tom Wandell Trio Performs at Bond Lounge at Langham Boston Hotel on November 2

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
October 31, 2011

Jazz drummer Tom Wandell and his trio perform at BOND Restaurant & Lounge in downtown Boston on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. The gig is part of the BOND Jazz Experiment, which highlights emerging artists and accomplished performers covering the jazz spectrum, including classic jazz from the American Songbook, rhythm and blues and funk. Located at the Langham Boston Hotel, BOND Restaurant & Lounge is open seven days a week, offering gourmet sandwiches for lunch, afternoon ...

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Free Halloween Concert at Boston's Jordan Hall on Monday, October 31

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
October 31, 2011

Jazz pianist and composer Ran Blake and trombonist Aaron Harley are presenting their 7th annual Shadow of a Doubt Halloween Concert, at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, on Monday, October 31, 2011, starting at 8:00 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public. Students and faculty of NEC's Contemporary Improvisation department—along with guests—perform in response to the plots, moods, scenes, spirit, and music of these two films as clips appear onscreen. Blake and Hartley coach a Storyboarding/Noir Ensemble ...

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Shows I'll Never Forget: Wilco and Calexico, Nov. 20, 2004

Source: Something Else!
October 30, 2011

By Tom Johnson Wilco brought its amazing conglomerate of musicians to Tempe's Marquee Theatre in support of the terrific A ghost is born, with the equally talented, although unfairly publicly ignored opening act Calexico. The 45 minutes allotted to Calexico was far from enough, but the band made the most of it, packing their setlist with a solid, high-energy selection of songs mostly chosen from the most recent album Feast of Wire and their then-current EP Convict Pool. A blend ...

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Jazz Singer Kurt Elling and Kluvers Big Band at Wilbur Theatre in Boston on November 2

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
October 30, 2011

Grammy Award-winning Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling is performing with the Kluvers Big Band from Denmark at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets range from $27-$37 and can be purchased online. Elling, who celebrates his birthday at the Wilbur Theatre performance, is considered this generation's premier jazz vocalist. The Chicago musician has won numerous awards for his work, including a Grammy in 2010 for his album Dedicated to You: the Songs of John ...

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