Performance / Tour News

Sol Roots Celebrating Life Through Music - concert in Wilmington NC on March 9th

Source: 9th Floor Music
March 3, 2011

Sol and Tim Smith perform in Wilmington NC on Wednesday March 9. Sol has toured around the world with roots, blues, funk, and soul legends and brings his unique style home to the Carolina coast. Sol and Tim Smith are both recognized as top east coast US musicians. Many musicians learn songs by listening to old records or CDs of artists, but Sol Roots has been lucky enough to learn many tunes directly from the source. Even though his vocal ...

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Antonio Ciacca Trio Performs at Nazareth College (Rochester) on April 9th

Source: Seton Hawkins
March 3, 2011

Jazz pianist, composer, and bandleaderAntonio Ciacca leads his trio—featuring bassist Dan Vitale and drummer Mike Melito—in a concert and discussion at Nazareth College's Wilmot Recital Hall on Saturday, April 9, 2011. An exciting pianist and articulate advocate of jazz, Mr. Ciacca, whose performance is sponsored by the college's Casa Italiana, will also offer an illuminating discussion of the history of jazz in Italy, as well as an exploration of the international role of jazz. A consummate artist with a multi-faceted ...

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Berklee's Women Musicians Network Features 50 Women Musicians at Berklee Performance Center on Thursday, March 3

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
March 3, 2011

More than 50 women will grace the stage at the Berklee Performance Center when Berklee's Women Musicians Network (WMN) presents its 14th annual concert on Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 8:15 p.m. Tickets to the show are $10 and can be ordered online. Female students from countries around the world—including Argentina, Japan, Italy, South Korea, Spain, and the U.S.—will showcase their songwriting, arranging, performing, producing, and engineering talents in this popular concert. Among the performers: Katie Marshall, Kozue Kuriyama, Sissy ...

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Lineage - For My People the Margaret Walker Song Cycle Starring Broadway Singer Aurelia Williams and Composer Randy Klein.

Source: Two for the Show Media
March 3, 2011

A Forbes Center presentation in partnership with Furious Flower Poetry Center April 2, 2011, Saturday @ 8 p.m, Concert Hall Lineage is a new musical work that incorporates the poetry of Margaret Walker, the instrumentals of composer Randy Klein, the vocal talents of the JMU Chorale and Broadway artist Aurelia Williams, as well as a photographic montage of African American history. The JMU Chorale will also perform the premier of For My People by Randy Klein. Aurelia Williams Poet, novelist, ...

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Jazz This Week: Chris Potter Underground, Craig Hultgren, Jazz St. Louis' Benefit Gala, Mardi Gras Music, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 3, 2011

It's Mardi Gras week, and here in St. Louis there's a variety of jazz and creative music coming up on local stages (though not at the city's official Mardi Gras celebration; a bit more about that later.) Let's go the highlights... The most highly anticipated performer of the week likely is saxophonist Chris Potter (pictured), who brings his electric group Underground to Jazz at the Bistro for the first time beginning tonight and continuing through Saturday. The 40-year-old Potter has ...

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Jazz Around Town: Baby, It's Still Cold Outside....

Source: Jazz@Rochester
March 3, 2011

But I hear tell there's some hot jazz around town to warm you up. I hope I can stop this winter motif soon. There's some new sounds at Bop Shop Atrium this week and smooting it out with Four80East at Exodus to Jazz. A wide variety abounds...  Here are the listings for live jazz in and around Rochester, NY, for the next seven days.  Thursday, March 3, 2011 Live Jazz Jam with ESM Students @ Triple Deuces Bar & Grill, ...

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Jazz Iconoclast performing at Turtle Bay Music School

Source: Jillian MacNamara
March 3, 2011

The Music of Bobby Avey: A Solo Concert New York, NY—Bobby Avey, pianist & composer will be the first to present at Turtle Bay Music School's innaugural Jazz Series featuring some of New York's premier Jazz “up-and-comers." Bobby will present a first-rate concerts followed by a Q&A session. The Jazz Series is Thursday, April 14th at 9pm, free-of-charge and open to the public. This year's Jazz Series include: Bobby Avey, Piano, Thursday, April 14th, 9pm, The Richmond Room Pianist and ...

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Webster Groves HS Jazz Band Traveling to NYC This Month for Clinics, Concerts

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 2, 2011

Students in the Webster Groves High School jazz band program will get a taste of the Big Apple this month as they travel to New York from March 17 through March 23 to take part in series of clinics and concerts. WGHS jazz band director Kevin Cole emailed StLJN with more about the trip:

“Students will enjoy clinics at Lincoln Center with trumpeter/composer Michael Philip Mossman and bassist Carlos Henriquez of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.

WGHS Jazz I will ...

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