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

Source: Jazz@Rochester
January 20, 2011

You see a pattern? Yes, this is Rochester...it's January... I should not be surprised should I? But I'm feeling it in my bones (literally, my old knees and their scar tissue are just about fed up with it). There's a bit of jazz being played here and there around Rochester. Here's what I was able to find out (tell me if you know of more...). Thursday, January 20, 2011 Anthony Giannavola @ Lemoncello, 6:00 pm Jazz Dawgs @ Bistro 135, ...

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Blues at the Crossroads: The Robert Johnson Centennial Concert Tour

Source: Berklee Public Relations
January 19, 2011

With Big Head Todd and The Monsters and special guest Mississippi Delta and Hill Country Artists David “Honeyboy" Edwards, Hubert Sumlin, and Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm Presented by Subaru of New England at the Berklee Performance Center, Feb. 18 Boston, MA—How do you throw a 100th birthday bash for the most influential bluesman that ever lived? If you're Big Head Todd and The Monsters, you gather some of the greatest living blues musicians and record a tribute album, 100 ...

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From Nina to Norma – British Singer, Juliet Kelly, Thanks the Divas for Inspiration

Source: Juliet Kelly
January 19, 2011

UK jazz singer and songwriter, Juliet Kelly, unveils her new project with a 12-date tour to arts centres and jazz clubs around the UK in February and March next year. “Inspired: Celebrating the Jazz Divas" is Juliet's tribute to the jazz singers past and present that have inspired and influenced her. The London-based vocalist who has taken the jazz scene by storm with her distinctive velvety voice, mesmerising songs and Glam Jazz style has collaborated with up-and-coming arranger George Moore ...

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Shelley Neill Kicks of 2011 Jazz Series at Cambridge's Multicultural Arts Center on January 21

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
January 19, 2011

Acclaimed vocalist Shelley Neill performs this Friday, January 21, at the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge Massachusetts at 8:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.). Neill is being joined by ace Berklee musicians Laszlo Gardony on piano, Ron Mahdi on bass and Yoron Israel on drums. Tickets to the show are $20 and $15 and are available online or at the box office window, which is open 10:30 a.m. to 6:00 Monday through Friday. Neill's performance will include songs from ...

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Nels Cline Singers: Winter 2011 Tour Dates

Source: JamBase
January 19, 2011

WILCO LEAD GUITARIST ANNOUNCES WEST COAST DATES Nels Cline Singers are heading out on the road with Yuka C. Honda in support of their 2010 release Initiate. The tour includes stops in Seattle, Portland, Arcata, San Francisco, Felton, LA, and NY. Initiate, in a beautifully designed, six-panel digipak featuring Simon Norfolk's gorgeous photographs of the world's largest machine (the Large Hadron Collider at CERN) is Cline's first double album and, with its second disc culled from a September 2009 performance ...

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Robert Plant: Spring Tour

Source: JamBase
January 19, 2011

TOUR STARTS APRIL 8 IN LOUISVILLE, KY; GET FREE DOWNLOAD BELOW Robert Plant has confirmed a 12-date North American tour. Beginning April 8 in Louisville, KY, this will be the third leg of touring on these shores in support of the triumphant release of his latest album, Band of Joy. The touring band is the same that made the record and that is currently touring the States: Patty Griffin, vocals; Darrell Scott, multi-nstrumentalist/vocals; By ron House, bass/vocals; Marco Giovino, drums ...

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Rush Add Summer Dates

Source: JamBase
January 19, 2011

FINAL ROUND OF DATES BEGINNING JUNE 8 IN GREENVILLE, SC Rush have added the final dates to their “Time Machine Tour." After the previously announced US and European dates in the Spring, the band will hit the road for their final round of dates in the summer, starting June 8 in Greenville, SC. The tour features a performance of the classic album Moving Pictures in its entirety. Click here for information on pre-sales and fan club packages. TIME MACHINE TOUR ...

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The Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance Presents Grammy Award Winners Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra in Concert Feb. 26th @ Symphony Space NYC.

Source: Two for the Show Media
January 19, 2011

“CubaNola: More Than the Spanish Tinge" concert to feature New Orleans' renowned saxophonist Donald Harrison Fresh from an historic journey to Cuba for the Havana Plaza Jazz Festival, Arturo O'Farrill returns to the Symphony Space stage on February 26th at 8PM with his GRAMMY Award-winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO) for a powerful evening highlighting the profound connection between the music of Cuba and New Orleans, and to celebrate the release of their latest album, 40 Acres and a Burro. ...

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