Performance / Tour News

SFJAZZ Announces SFJAZZ Collective Spring 2011 Tour Dates - "The Music of Stevie Wonder"

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
January 27, 2011

SFJAZZ Collective “The Music of Stevie Wonder The award-winning all-star SFJAZZ Collective roster includes alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón, tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, vibraphonist Stefon Harris, trumpeter Avishai Cohen, trombonist Robin Eubanks, pianist Edward Simon, bassist Matt Penman and drummer Eric Harland. SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE SPRING 2011 TOUR

February 25—Newmark Theatre, Portland Jazz Festival, Portland, OR March 6—Napa Valley Opera House, Napa, CA March 11- Herbst Theatre, SFJAZZ, San Francisco, CA March 18—Schwartz Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA March 19—University Auditorium, University ...

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East Side on the West Side

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
January 27, 2011

I always wondered why this quartet called themselves East Side. If anything they seem to play most often on the metro area's west side. Turns out this was the name of one of Reynold Philipsek's compositions that was to be on the playlist of their first gig. Last Sunday, East Side (Clint Hoover on many harmonicas, Michael Bissonnette on many percussion tools, Matt Senjem on acoustic bass, and Philipsek on guitar) played to an overly full house in the Black ...

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Cryogenic Renaissance Orchestra Performing Jazz at Shalin Liu Hall in Rockport

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
January 27, 2011

Rockport Music is presenting trumpeter Greg Hopkins and his nine-member Cryogenic Renaissance Orchestra in a special concert at the new Shalin Liu Performing Arts Center in Rockport, Massachusetts on Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets to the concert are $18, $24 and $32, and can be ordered online. The Orchestra is performing standards and original compositions influenced by jazz greats like Miles Davis, Gil Evans and Herbie Hancock. Hopkins is a professor of jazz composition at Berklee College ...

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Jim Rotondi at Tula's Next Wednesday

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
January 27, 2011

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 TULA'S JAZZ CLUB 2214 2nd Ave Seattle 206-443-4221 2 sets starting at 7:30pm, $12.00, All Ages

Former New York City trumpeter Jim Rotondi, who recently moved to Graz, Austria, is passing through town on Wednesday, February 2, to perform at Tula's before heading up to The Cellar in Vancouver.

The band features Mark Taylor (saxophone), John Hansen (piano), Phil Sparks (bass) and Matt Jorgensen (drums). Reservations are ...

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Robin Trower: New Album and U.S. Tour

Source: JamBase
January 27, 2011

TOUR STARTS JANUARY 27 IN FT. LAUDERDALE Robin Trower returns to the US in 2011 for an extensive tour in support of his new CD The Playful Heart. Starting in Fort Lauderdale Florida on January 27, and continuing through the end of June, Robin will be performing his signature songs, with a variety of new material and some surprises included in the set. Robin Trower is offering a four FREE downloads from various records including “Prince of Shattered Dreams" from ...

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G. Love Adds Spring Dates

Source: JamBase
January 27, 2011

SECOND LEG OF TOUR STARTS APRIL 7 IN TEMPE, AZ G. Love & Special Sauce has just added some more tour dates to the North American Fixin' To Die Tour. The second batch of dates starts April 7 in Tempe, AZ and wraps up in Minneapolis, MN at the end of the month. Tickets for this leg of the tour will go on sale this weekend. Check below for all 2011 tour dates. Their new album, Fixin' To Die, produced ...

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Henry Rollins Turns 50: Spoken Word Tour Dates

Source: JamBase
January 27, 2011

TICKETS ON SALE JANUARY 28 WITH PRESALES STARTING JANUARY 25 As Henry Rollins approaches the half-century mark, the everyman-of-all-trades gears up for a new talking tour simply titled 50. The national tour dates kick off March 17 at the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg, PA, and continue through mid-April. Henry will be hitting intimate venues to share stories from and reflections on his first 50 years, and the chaos that has surrounded him. Tickets go on sale January 28, with a ...

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Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt | Boston | Review | Pics

Source: JamBase
January 27, 2011

Words & Images by: Nancy Nutile-McMenemy John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett :: 01.13.10 :: Wilbur Theatre :: Boston, MA Ever wonder what it would be like to invite the legendary singer-songwriters John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett over to your house for an evening of song and good times? Well, during the pos- blizzard of 2011 in the intimate setting of the Wilbur Theatre in Boston an event very similar to such an “ever wonder" scenario took place for a sold ...

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