Performance / Tour News

Toots and the Maytals: Summer Tour 2011

Source: JamBase
March 24, 2011

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR STARTS WITH WAKARUSA SET ON JUNE 5 Toots and the Maytals have announced the details of their Summer North American tour set to begin June 5 at Wakarusa and wraps up on July 22 in Cohasset, MA. Their latest album, Flip & Twist, was released digitally and in stores last May. Tour Dates

06/05/11 Sat Wakarusa Music Festival Ozark, AR 06/11/11 Sat Sony Centre Toronto, ON 06/17/11 Fri Live Oak Music Festival Santa Barbara, CA 06/18/11 Sat ...

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New Tricks to Play Sunday, April 10 at the Bistro at Grand Center

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 24, 2011

The New Jersey-based jazz quartet New Tricks (pictured) is coming to St. Louis to perform at 7:00 p.m. Sunday, April 10 at the Bistro at Grand Center. The jazz combos from Webster Groves High School will open the show. New Tricks is co-led by tenor saxophonist Mike Lee and trumpeter Ted Chubb, who are both originally from Cleveland, and includes bassist Kellen Harrison and drummer Shawn Baltazor. They're touring in support of their second self-released CD Alternate Side, which officially ...

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Jazz St. Louis Offering 2-for-1 Special on Tickets for Julian Lage

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 24, 2011

Jazz St. Louis is offering a 2-for-1 special on tickets for guitarist Julian Lage (pictured), who's playing this Friday, March 25 at Jazz at the Bistro. The advertised ticket price is $20 each, but with the discount, ticket buyers get two seats for twenty bucks. The discount is available for both the 8:30 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. sets. To get it, call 314-289-4030 and use coupon code JLG2011. A California native, Lage was mentored early in his career by vibraphonist ...

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Jazz This Week: The Langston Hughes Project; Julian Lage; Hamiet Bluiett's Big Orchestra Band, Youth Division; Orange CD Release; and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 24, 2011

This week's jazz and creative music offerings in St. Louis are a varied lot, from a multimedia project with an historical focus to a concert featuring a 50-piece band of students playing the compositions of one of St. Louis' greatest living jazz musicians, plus lots more. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, trumpeter Ron McCurdy brings his multimedia presentation The Langston Hughes Project to SIUE's Meridian Ballroom. For much more about this musical look at the jazz-influenced poet, author and ...

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Jazz Around Town: Hard to Start Thinking About XRIJF in June when There's Snow Falling....

Source: Jazz@Rochester
March 24, 2011

Thursday, March 24, 2011 Live Jazz Jam with ESM Students @ Triple Deuces Bar & Grill, 6:00 pm A. Giannavola @Lemoncello, 6:00 pm Jazz Dawgs @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley Grill, 7:00 pm The Djangoners @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm Dave Rivello Ensemble @ Village Rock Cafe, 9:00 pm Friday, March 25, 2011 Chris Potter recital (jazz percussion) @ Eastman School of Music, Kilbourn Hall, 1:30 pm Live Jazz Jam ...

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Classic UK Blues Rock Legends Wishbone Ash to Tour Us in Support of New DVD Release

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
March 23, 2011

Danbury, CT—Wishbone Ash, the classic British rock band renowned for its signature twin-lead guitar prowess, embarks April 25 on a US tour to promote a new DVD and studio project. The group returns to several familiar venues along with select new stops on the three-week tour (tour dates listed below). The DVD, 'This is Wishbone Ash,' is a rockumentary offering a fly on the wall glimpse of the creative process, as the band records tracks for the upcoming CD release ...

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NY Jazz and a Carolina Bank

Source: Mark Rapp
March 23, 2011

(NEW YORK, NY)—Known for their industry first “Applum"—a complete record delivered solely through the iTunes App Store—New York Jazz trumpeter Mark Rapp and renowned guitarist/vocalist Derek Lee Bronston's jazz group “The Song Project" has partnered with South Carolina Bank and Trust on a return tour of the Carolinas culminating in a performance whose partial proceeds will benefit the Women's Shelter Health Services of Charlotte, NC. SC-raised trumpeter Mark Rapp is looking forward to the return tour saying, “I love coming ...

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Susan Tedeschi & Derek Trucks Announce Tour Dates with New Band

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 23, 2011

Revelator (Sony MASTERWORKS), the long-awaited, song-oriented debut album by the husband-wife team of singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi and guitarist Derek Trucks, will be released June 7th. Filled with smoky, blues-dipped rockers and heart-stilling ballads that show off, respectively, the gutsier and softer side of Tedeschi's vocal ability, plus a series of emotive, story-telling solos shaped by Trucks's uncanny agility on slide-guitar, Revelator also serves to introduce the couple's new, 11-piece ensemble: TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND. A dramatic leap forward for two of ...

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