Performance / Tour News

Jazz Arts Group's Audience-Programmed CJO by Request Closes out Season with Guest Vocalist Maria Jacobs

Source: Michael Ricci
April 22, 2011

The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) is getting ready to close out the Columbus Jazz Orchestra's Great American Songbook season with a show chosen entirely by our audience! CJO By Request (May 20-21 at the Southern Theatre) has been programmed by audience requests taken throughout the whole 2010-11 season to create the final playlist and will feature guest vocalist Maria Jacobs. CJO Artistic Director Byron Stripling has revealed the playlist to include: “Summertime “It Ain't Necessarily So" ...

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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, April 22-28

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
April 22, 2011

Some favorites return, and we celebrate another local CD release. Not a bad way to spend a holiday weekend and hopefully a more spring-like week. Highlights, Last Week Jazz Is Now, Nownet at the Loring Theater (April 15). Jeremy Walker's swan song as music director of his nonprofit Jazz Is Now was an artistic blowout if not a sellout. With special guests Wessell (Warmdaddy) Anderson on alto and sopranino sax and Marcus Printup on trumpet, the Nownet blazed through two ...

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Updated Harlem in the Himalayas Schedule

Source: Two for the Show Media
April 22, 2011

Harlem in the Himalayas at The Rubin Museum of Art in New York City. 150 West 17th Street New York, NY 10011 (212) 620-5000 Acoustic jazz concerts presented with the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Fridays at 7:00 p.m. Tickets $18 in advance / $20 day of / $7 student standby Members may receive up to 25% off tickets Box Office: 212.620.5000 ext. 344 Snehasish Mozumder and SOM ...

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Something Positive to Honor Nina Simone, Cheryl Byron, Pearl Primus

Source: Shaun M. Rasmussen
April 22, 2011

On Saturday, June 4th, 8PM at Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts (Long Island University Brooklyn Campus) the dynamic Brooklyn based performing arts company, Something Positive will kickoff Caribbean Heritage month with “Ancestral Chant," a concert that celebrates the lives and artistic legacies of three stalwarts of African American and Caribbean Culture; Rapso music pioneer, Cheryl Byron; the Grandmother of African American dance, Pearl Primus; and Jazz legend, Nina Simone. A pre-concert fundraising reception, “Cocktails & Conversations" 6PM, at the ...

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Jazz Around Town: The Brass Isn't the Only Thing Blowing...

Source: Jazz@Rochester
April 21, 2011

Thursday, April 21, 2011 ECMS Jazz Master Class with Howard Potter @ Eastman School of Music, 2:30 pm Live Jazz Jam with ESM Students @ Triple Deuces Bar & Grill, 6:00 pm A. Giannavola @Lemoncello, 6:00 pm Rick Holland Quartet @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley Grill, 7:00 pm Mostly Other People Do the Killing with Bitchin Kitchen and Bending & Breaking @ The Bug Jar, Thursday, April 21st, Doors 7:30 pm, ...

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Chihiro Yamanaka Trio 4/24 at the Blue Note (NY), releases CD "Forever Begins"

Source: Scott Foster
April 20, 2011

The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform April 24, 2011 at the Blue Note in New York City. Appearing with Chihiro, a brilliant jazz pianist/composer/arranger, will be bassist Yasushi Nakamura and drummer Pete Van Nostrand. For this Sunday brunch engagement, audiences have a choice of attending either of two sets, at 12:30 PM and 2:30 PM. The Blue Note is at 131 W. 3rd St. in Manhattan. Reservations may be made on the Blue Note's website or by phone (212-475-8592.) The ...

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May at Tutuma Social Club (NYC)

Source: Joe Alterman
April 20, 2011

Tutuma Social Club 164 East 56th Street New York, NY 10022 (646) 300-0305 Thursday May 5

@ 7pm Jonghun Song Quartet. Straight ahead jazz music Jonghun Song (guitar), Ji-yong Park (Piano), Younchul Kim (Bass) Ray Kim (Drums) @8:30pm: Lando Tap—Passion of Rythym. Modern Afro-Peruvian song and dance Toño Vilchez (percussion, zapateo, & tap), Alex Da Silva (Bass), John Doing(Drums), Laurandrea Leguia (sax) Grant Fisher (guitar). @10:30pm: Afro Peruvian Quartet with Daniel Susnjar. Afro Peruvian ...

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Subject: The Cookers Celebrate The Release Of Cast the First Stone @ The Iridum - May 14 & 15!

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
April 20, 2011

THE COOKERS Celebrate The Release Of CAST THE FIRST STONE (Plus Loin), Hard- Hitting Follow-Up to Acclaimed WARRIORS May 14 & 15! The Iridum 1650 Broadway, NYC (at 51st Street) Tel 212 582 2121 Showtime is 9:00 PM, tkts are $30 Billy Harper (Tenor Sax), Eddie Henderson (Trumpet), David Weiss (Trumpet), Craig Handy (Alto Sax), George Cables (Piano), Cecil McBee (Bass), Billy Hart (Drums) & Special guest Azar Lawrence (Tenor & Soprano Sax) Experience ...

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