Performance / Tour News

Jazz Around Town: While Technology May Fail Me, the Jazz Goes On ....

Source: Jazz@Rochester
July 9, 2011

Thursday, July 7, 2011 The Swooners @ Bistro 135, 6:00 pm Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley Grill, 7:00 pm Groove Dogs @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm

Friday, July 8, 2011 Summer Jazz Studies Big Band Concert @ Kilbourn Hall, ESM, 3:00 pm Johnny Matt & Jon Sieger @ Wegmans Eastway, 5:30 Bobby Dibaudo Trio @ Bistro 135, 6:00 pm Ryan T Carey & El Rojo Jazz Band @ Thali of India, 7:00 pm Joe Santora ...

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Chihiro Yamanaka Trio at Umbria Jazz Festival, July 9

Source: Scott Foster
July 8, 2011

The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy on July 9, 2011. Chihiro is opening for “Tribute to Miles" with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Marcus Miller. The concert begins at 9 PM and is at the main stage at Arena Santa Giuliana. Chihiro is on tour in the United States and Europe, and is celebrating the release of her new CD, “Forever Begins," including a European release in spring, 2011 on Universal Music's ...

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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, July 8-14

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
July 8, 2011

It's not a jazz festival and it's not the 4th of July weekend—just a normal weekend of too many choices... my favorite kind of dilemma. Enjoy yours. Highly Recommended This Week St. Paul provides the first conflict of the weekend, with Maud Hixson and Lucia Newell reprising their Ellington/Strayhorn tribute at the Artists Quarter while Brad Bellows and Donald Washington give free improv new meaning down at the Black Dog (7/8). The partnership of Ellington and Strayhorn left a large ...

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Wayne Horvitz at Rainier Vally Cultural Center

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
July 8, 2011

Friday, July 8, 7pm—Valley Vibes Jazz Series Wayne Horvitz's Sweeter Than the Day + Jazz Night School Performance Big Band

Rainier Valley Cultural Center 3515 S. Alaska Street, Columbia City

Admission is FREE, or by donation.

Wayne Horvitz's acoustic quartet Sweeter than the Day and the Jazz Night School Performance Big Band will perform, followed by a reception and conversation with musicians in the lower level.

Sweeter than the Day features pianist and composer ...

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The New Mastersounds: New Album, Summer Dates

Source: JamBase
July 8, 2011

BREAKS FROM THE BORDER OUT AUGUST 9 UK Soulsters The New Mastersounds will be releasing their seventh studio album and first album ever recorded on U.S. soil Breaks from the Border August 9 on Tallest Man Records. This album ushers in a new era in the bands sonic landscape, by topping their unique syncopated grooves with group vocal stylings. Instead of heading back to their home town of Leeds to record, the band took a detour to tiny border town ...

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All That Tap XX Set for Saturday, July 30 at the Touhill

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
July 8, 2011

As noted here before, jazz music and tap dancing have been connected throughout the history of both art forms, and tap dancing has been an interest of a number of notable jazz musicians, including drummers such as Buddy Rich (who started in show business as a child tap dancer), Max Roach and Louis Bellson. St. Louis tap dance guru Robert L. Reed no doubt is well aware of that connection, as he once again has enlisted the services of the ...

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Cornet Chop Suey to Record Live CD on Tuesday, July 19 at the Sheldon Concert Hall

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
July 8, 2011

The traditional jazz and swing band Cornet Chop Suey (pictured) will record their next CD in a live session at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 19 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. They've already got a title—Mr. Lucky, from the Henry Mancini composition—and they should be quite familiar with the surroundings, as their most recent CD prior to this, Live at the Sheldon, was, as you might guess, recorded at the very same venue. Mr. Lucky will be Cornet Chop Suey's ninth ...

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WD-41 to tour Italy this July

Source: Willie Oteri
July 8, 2011

The Austin Texas based Beyond Jazz duo of Dave Laczko and Willie Oteri aka WD-41 will be doing a short tour of Italy from July 15 to August 1st with house concerts, recording sessions and festival dates including the Y2KX+1 International Florence Live Looping Festival July 17 and the Portello River Festival in Padua Italy July 21, a three week long music festival which follows the River Film Festival in Padua. After being invited to perform at the Portello River ...

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