Performance / Tour News

Ljova and the Kontaband at Cinema Arts Centre (Huntington, NY) on April 3rd

Source: Premik Russell Tubbs
March 27, 2011

Ljova and the Kontraband is new music, i.e. chamber-jam music for the remix generation. As if by alchemy, Eastern-European and Gypsy melodies, Latin rhythms, Jazz-inspired improvisations, and deeply rooted Classical forms are given new meanings in original compositions that fearlessly forge a new direction, with a nostalgic gaze towards the past. Since making its debut in June 2006, the ensemble has performed at venues such as New York's Lincoln Center & the Museum of Modern Art, The Kennedy Center in ...

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Instant Composers Pool Orchestra to Play 3-Day Concert Series April 1-3 in Philadelphia on US Spring Tour

Source: Canary Promotion + Design
March 27, 2011

From April 1st through the 3rd, Ars Nova Workshop will present Three Days in Philadelphia, a multi-night concert series showcasing the work of acclaimed Dutch ensemble Instant Composers Pool Orchestra (ICP), in a rare US appearance. The internationally celebrated tentet has engaged audiences with their unique blend of tradition and experimentation for over 40 years.

Instant Composers Pool Orchestra blurs the lines between improvisation and composition with their distinctive, and oftentimes theatrical, practice of “instant composing," while juxtaposing historically disparate ...

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Eddie Vedder: Solo Album and Tour

Source: JamBase
March 26, 2011

U.S. TOUR STARTS JUNE 15 IN PROVIDENCE, RI; NEW ALBUM UKULELE SONGS OUT MAY 31 In support of his forthcoming solo album, Ukulele Songs (out May 31), Eddie Vedder will embark on a month-long US tour on June 15 in Providence, Rhode Island which wraps up on July 15 at Seattle's Benaroya Hall. Special guest Glen Hansard (The Swell Season, The Frames) will join Vedder on the road. A special Ten Club only ticket pre-sale will begin Tuesday, March 29 ...

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Lenore Raphael to tour North Carolina and Florida in honor of Jazz Appreciation Month

Source: LenMar Promotions
March 26, 2011

Renowned Jazz pianist Lenore Raphael will begin a tour in honor of Jazz Appreciation Month with a concert at the Halle Cultural Arts Center in Apex, North Carolina with an evening of popular and more obscure Duke Ellington compositions. Accompanied by bassist Rick Eckberg and drummer Peter Ingram, this trio sold out their last performance at this venue so early ticket purchase is suggested on etix.com or at the theater box office. She continues the tour with a concert at ...

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Odean Pope Benefit at the Philadelphia Clef Club March 21, 2011

Source: Victor L. Schermer
March 25, 2011

It has often been noted that the community of jazz musicians is as close and caring as an extended family. Indeed, in Philadelphia, modern jazz received a major thrust in the 1950s-60s when pioneers like John Coltrane, the Heath Brothers, McCoy Tyner, Benny Golson, James Moody, and a small army of others would get together in each others' homes to practice, invent, talk, and cement lifetime bonds, while the parents would host, listen, befriend, and cook up meals for them. ...

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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, March 25-31

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
March 25, 2011

If you can't find something you like this week....you aren't listening. Highlights, Last Week Milo Fine, Two Trios at Studio Z (March 20). Only nine of us in the audience, but there was plenty of interaction on stage as pianist/percussionist Milo Fine joined creative forces with the tuba, played by Stefan Kac, and brought on first John O'Neill on cornet/flugelhorn and then Scott Newell on tenor sax, vocals and spoken word to form two trios. Each half of the program ...

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Tina Fabrique Commands the House and Captures the Audience in Ella

Source: AAJ Staff
March 25, 2011

By Howard Shapiro, Inquirer Theater Critic They called Ella Fitzgerald the First Lady of Song, and was she ever. She became the queen of scat singing in mid-career, reinventing her musical persona as the big-band sound was fading, and by the end she'd made her mark as both an exciting jazz vocalist and a master singer of the Great American Songbook. “God gave this talent to me, so I just stand there and sing," she once said. The remarkable Tina ...

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Grammy Winners Stanley Clarke and Victor Wooten Performing at Royale in Boston on Thursday, March 24

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
March 25, 2011

Legendary jazz bassist Stanley Clarke and fellow-Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten perform tonight, March 24, 2011, at Royale Night Club in Boston at 7:00 p.m.. Tickets to the show are $27 and can be ordered online. Clarke won a Grammy at this year's Grammy Awards ceremony for Best Contemporary Jazz Album. The Philadelphia native has revolutionized the bass guitar and continues to perform throughout the world. Wooten is a five-time Grammy Award winner who was deeply influenced by Clarke, and ...

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