Performance / Tour News

Liberty Hotel in Boston Has Acoustic Jazz with Daniel Bennett Group on Wednesday, May 18

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
May 18, 2011

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Cibo Matto Reunite, Announce Headlining Tour

Source: JamBase
May 18, 2011

DUO WORKING ON NEW MATERIAL FOR NEW ALBUM IN 2012 Cibo Matto, the ground-breaking and genre-bending duo of Miho Hatori and Yuka C. Honda, happily announces their reunion with two short “sneak preview" tours this summer. The first, from June 21-26, will be on the West Coast, with a second East Coast/Midwest run July 11-20. Miho and Yuka are also in the process of writing new songs for an upcoming album, which is scheduled for release by early 2012. One ...

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Celebrations: Music of Andrew Rudin on June 14, 2011- 7:30 pm (NYC)

Source: Two for the Show Media
May 18, 2011

Symphony Space—Leonard Nimoy Theatre, 95th & Broadway, NYC -$25; Members, Students, Seniors $15 This is a concert celebrating the chamber music of Andrew Rudin. It features his Overture-Rondo for two pianos (Duo Stephanie & Saar), Celebrations for two pianos and percussion (Duo Stephanie & Sarr and Anthony Orlando), and Museum Pieces for piano solo (Beth Levin), the Sonata for violin and piano (Miranda Cuckson and Steve Beck), Ephemera for clarinet and piano (Neil Rynston and Beth Levin), and the new ...

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Rhiannon Giddens Laffan Joins NC Symphony Globe-Trotting Concert, May 31-June 5

Source: Arthur Ryel-Lindsey
May 18, 2011

CARY, N.C.—Grammy Award-winning vocalist Rhiannon Giddens Laffan joins forces with North Carolina Symphony Music Director Grant Llewellyn and the stellar talents of your state's premier professional orchestra for a journey across the musical globe. “Around the World in Eighty Minutes," the second entry in the Symphony's 2011 Rex Healthcare Summerfest Series, takes place at Cary's Koka Booth Amphitheatre on Saturday, June 4, at 7:30 p.m. Children 12 and under are free. The orchestra also takes the show on the road, ...

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Orchestra in a Box + 4

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
May 17, 2011

Zeitgeist dubbed its collaboration with accordionist Guy Klucevsek as “Hammers, Horns Skins and Squeezeboxes," but they might have added “mallets, toys and cafeteria boxes" to acknowledge the full arsenal. Playing to full houses for three consecutive nights at Studio Z, the four Zs (percussionists Heather Barringer and Patti Cudd; multi-reedist Pat O'Keefe; pianist Shannon Wettstein) perfectly melded with Klucevsek on new arrangements of his compositions, including a world premiere of his “Three Hymnopedies." From the tango sway of their opening ...

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The Dead Kenny G's: Tour Dates with Primus

Source: JamBase
May 17, 2011

TOUR KICKS OFF MAY 27 IN FAYETVILLE, AR Straight from a three week tour with Garage A Trois, saxophonist Skerik and percussionist/vibraphonist Mike Dillon rejoin bassist Brad Houser in their other primary band, The Dead Kenny Gs, for ten dates supporting Primus in the Southeast at the end of May. The trio will also headline a handful of its own shows during the run. The Dead Kenny Gs are touring behind their critically-acclaimed new album, Operation Long Leash, out now ...

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Return to Forever, Zappa Plays Zappa to Perform Thursday, August 25 at the Fox Theatre

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
May 17, 2011

This just in: A new lineup of the seminal fusion band Return to Forever (pictured) will hit the road for 32 dates in the USA this summer, including a performance on Thursday, August 25 at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis. Zappa Plays Zappa, the Frank Zappa repertory ensemble headed by the late guitarist and composer's son Dweezil, will serve as the support act for the entire tour. The new RTF lineup includes Chick Corea on keyboards, Stanley Clarke on ...

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Corky Hale to Make Kennedy Center Debut in 16th Annual Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Festival

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
May 16, 2011

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 16th Annual Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Festival will present “Corky Hale And Friends," featuring Corky Hale, the critically acclaimed and renowned jazz harpist, pianist and vocalist on Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in the Terrace Theater of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; 2700 F Street, N.W.; Washington, D.C. 20566.

Corky Hale will be accompanied by Boots Maleson on bass and Brian Brake on ...

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