Performance / Tour News

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones: Spring 2012 U.S. Tour Dates

Source: JamBase
October 5, 2011

TOUR STARTS MARCH 1 AT UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN Bela Fleck and the Flecktones have announced plans for a Spring tour in 2012. The run starts on March 1 at University of Wisconsin and will take the band through San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Omaha, and more before wrapping up on April 28 in Louisville, Kentucky. Check below for a complete itinerary, including the band's remaining 2011 dates. For the first time since 1991, pianist/ harmonica player ...

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Sharon Jones: Nov/Dec Dates

Source: JamBase
October 5, 2011

TOUR ENDS WITH SEVEN SHOWS IN NEW YORK Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings will play string of tour dates over the next couple of months, including two dates with My Morning Jacket on 12/1 and 12/2. The band will hit Portland, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, San Diego, and more before wrapping up the tour with a seven dates in New York. Check out their itinerary below. Tour Dates

10/07/11 Fri Westobou Festival Augusta, GA 10/27/11 Thu Newport Music Hall Columbus, OH 10/28/11 ...

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Warren Haynes: Fall Tour

Source: JamBase
October 4, 2011

TOUR STARTS OCTOBER 11 IN PITTSBURGH Warren Haynes has announced a new single, “River's Gonna Rise," from the soul-deep album Man In Motion out now on Stax/Concord Music Group. The single is at radio now on the heels of his Triple A Top 20 single “Man In Motion." The Warren Haynes Band has also extended their 2011 world tour headlining amphitheaters, theaters and festivals with a fall run that includes special Halloween shows in San Francisco, Denver, and more. Man ...

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Railroad Earth: Fall U.S. Tour

Source: JamBase
October 4, 2011

FALL TOUR KICKS OFF OCTOBER 6 IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE Railroad Earth will hit the ground running this fall with a Southern tour that kicks off right at the turn of October. The six-piece band will start their tour on the Eastern Seaboard, with dates in Delaware and Virginia, before rolling the train Southwest to Tennessee, Ohio, Arkansas, Louisiana and Alabama, and then turning back East for shows in Georgia, Florida and North Carolina. October wraps up with their highly buzzed-about ...

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Return to Forever w/ Zappa Plays Zappa | Fall Tour | Review | Pics

Source: JamBase
October 4, 2011

By Eric Podolsky Show Review: Return To Forever with Zappa Plays Zappa :: 09.22.11 :: The Warfield :: San Francisco, CA When Return To Forever announced in 2008 that they were reuniting for the first time in 25 years, jazz buffs and fusion geeks rejoiced. The ensuing world tour was a grand success, and proved (somewhat surprisingly) that there still existed a dedicated audience ravenous for the band's formula of hard-hitting, masterfully executed jazz-rock. And while RTF's 1970s fusion contemporaries ...

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Bob Gluck Trio NYC Performance to Mark the Release of "Returning" (December 22)

Source: Bob Gluck
October 4, 2011

The Bob Gluck Trio will celebrate the release of its second CD, Returning (FMR) at a December 22 performance in New York City. The Thursday evening show will take place at the Gershwin Hotel, 7 East 27th Street (between Fifth and Madison), at 8:00 pm. Returning has received rave reviews since its release in Spring 2011. John Book (Book's Music) calls iit “a fantastic listen... something exceptional." Bill Millkowski (Jazz Times) writes that the CD is “a perfect balance between ...

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Billy Harper Quintet to appear at Montgomery County Community College (Bluebell, PA) on October 15

Source: Helen Haynes
October 3, 2011

Blue Bell, PA: Montgomery County Community College's Lively Arts Series will present the Billy Harper Quintet, Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 8PM at Science Center Theatre. Billy Harper is one of a generation of Coltrane-influenced tenor saxophonists who actually built upon the master's work, rather than simply copy it. His 1973 album Capra Black “remains one of the seminal recordings of jazz's black consciousness movement—a profoundly spiritual effort that channels both the intellectual complexity of the avant-garde as well as ...

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Carl Testa/Kevin Frenette Quartet at Outpost 186 on 10/22

Source: Kevin Frenette
October 3, 2011

Saturday, October 22, 2011 OUTPOST 186 186 1/2 Hampshire Street Cambridge, MA 02139 8:00 PM Carl Testa/Kevin Frenette Quartet World renowned master bassist Carl Testa (from Anthony Braxton's 12+1tet) and Boston's own avant-jazz co-conspirators Kevin Frenette (guitar), James Rohr (piano) and John McLellan (drums) present an evening of improvised music centering on exceptionally intricate interplay, texture and timbre on Saturday, October 22. The Carl Testa/Kevin Frenette Quartet will take the stage at 8 p.m. ...

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