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Lance Houston Jazz Quartet Performing at Tamo Bar at Seaport Boston Hotel on Tuesday, August 30

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
August 30, 2011

The Lance Houston Jazz Quartet is performing live outdoors at the Tamo Bar at the Seaport Boston Hotel in the city's Seaport District on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. The Berklee-graduate and his talented group play a wide range of cool jazz songs perfect for the warm summer breezes. Houston's sound has been compared to jazz great Freddie Hubbard. Houston (Flugelhorn) is joined by Mihoko Abe (Piano), Miki Matsuki (Drums) and Francisco Ojeda (Bass). Tamo Bar is one ...

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Jethro Tull: Aqualung 40th Box Set, 2012 Thick as a Brick Tour

Source: JamBase
August 30, 2011

IAN ANDERSON TO PERFORM THICK AS A BRICK ON 2012 TOUR; JETHRO TULL ANNOUNCES AQUALUNG 40TH ANNIVERSARY BOX SET Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull will perform Thick As A Brick in its entirety for the first time since 1972, going out for a world tour commencing in Great Britain in Mid-April. Then, it's on to European countries in the late Spring and Summer before landing in the USA for two tours spanning September, October and early November. This tour will ...

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Jazz at Holmes Series Announces Fall 2011 Schedule

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
August 30, 2011

The Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University today announced via email their schedule of free concerts for the fall 2011 semester. The series kicks off at 8:00 p.m. this Thursday, September 1 with a concert by drummer Bensid Thigpen's quintet and guest vocalist Marsha Evans, to be held outdoors in the Quadrangle on the main Wash U campus. Subsequent performances in the series will move indoors to the series' regular venue, Ridgley Hall's Holmes Lounge. Among the more noteworthy ...

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The Microscopic Septet in Baltimore August 31 at An die Musik Live (Baltimore)

Source: Scott Foster
August 29, 2011

The Microscopic Septet proves yet again that it's more powerful than a hurricane when it performs August 31 at An die Musik Live in Baltimore, MD, bouncing back from a storm that scratched its weekend engagement at the venue. The concert, which will begin at 7:30 PM, will feature music from the band's critically accaimed CD, “Friday the 13th: The Micros Play Monk" (Cuneiform Records), inventive arrangements of Thelonious Monk compositions as reimagined by Phillip Johnston and Joel Forrester, the ...

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This Week at The Cornelia Street Cafe: August 29-September 5

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
August 29, 2011

SUMMERTIME CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL: TONIGHT—Monday, August 29, 8:30PM MELODY FADER AND FRIENDS Melody Fader, piano; Emily Popham Gillins, violin; Hamilton Berry, cello Tuesday, August 30, 8:30 PM neoLIT ENSEMBLE neoLIT Ensemble presents a program of modern works written for flute, cello and piano. Wednesday, August 31, 8:30PM DUANE EUBANKS QUINTET Duane Eubanks, trumpet; Abraham Burton, tenor saxophone; Orrin Evans, piano; Eric McPherson, drums; Corcoran Holt, bass Thursday, September ...

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North Carolina Symphony Pops Series Begins with Tour of Bernstein's Greatest Hits, Sept. 23-24

Source: Arthur Ryel-Lindsey
August 29, 2011

The North Carolina Symphony will have special help in guiding concertgoers through one of music's most engaging legacies next month. Jamie Bernstein joins the Symphony, led by Associate Conductor Sarah Hicks and featuring an ensemble of celebrated guest vocalists, for an entertaining tour of her father Leonard Bernstein's greatest hits. “Bernstein on Broadway," the first concert in the Symphony's 2011/12 Pops series, takes place in Raleigh's Meymandi Concert Hall, in the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, on Friday ...

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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, August 26-September 1

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
August 27, 2011

Highlights This Week After a short break, jazz returns on Friday nights at the Black Dog, and tonight (8/26) is a big one—guitarist Jef Lee Johnson with bassist Yohannes Tona and drummer Michael Bland. With his own style of jazz/blues/rock, and the small space of the Black Dog, there is a good chance that the decibels will be off the chart, but this one will be recorded for later playback on KBEM if you forget your ear plugs. (Watch for ...

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Saxophonist/Composer Marcus Strickland Celebrates Triumph of the Heavy Volume 1 & 2 at Le Poisson Rouge

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
August 26, 2011

Thursday, September 29, 2011 @ Le Poisson Rouge: Saxophonist/Composer Marcus Strickland's CD Release Party For Triumph of the Heavy Volume 1 & 2 Presented by Autumn Suite and produced by Revive Da Live Featuring: Marcus Strickland (saxophones/compositions), David Bryant (piano), Ben Williams (bass) + E.J. Strickland (drums) Showtime is 6:30 PM, TKTS are $10 ($12 day of show), Tel 212 505 FISH, Le Poisson Rouge is located at 158 Bleecker Street, NYC Marcus Strickland Also Appearing at: The Northampton Jazz ...

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