Performance / Tour News

Chuck Berry Collapses Onstage in Chicago

Source: JamBase
January 4, 2011

GET WELL SOON, CHUCK Rock N' Roll legend Chuck Berry collapsed onstage during a packed New Year's Day performance at the Congress Theatre in Chicago. According to Rolling Stone, Berry was an hour into his set when he slumped over his keyboard, saying “I'm struggling," before venue staff members ushered him offstage for medical attention. He returned 15 minutes later and attempted to tune his guitar, only to be escorted back offstage to be examined by paramedics. A review of ...

Continue Reading...

2011 Harlem in the Himalayas Schedule - Jazz at the Rubin Museum in NYC

Source: Two for the Show Media
January 4, 2011

Acoustic jazz concerts presented with The National Jazz Museum in Harlem All tickets $18 in advance / $20 day of; $7 student standby Fridays at 7:00 p.m. Box Office: 212.620.5000 ext. 344 Online tickets: rmanyc.org/harlem 2011 Performances: January 7 Eldar Signed to Sony Classical at the age of 17, Eldar has since established himself as one of the great solo jazz pianists. Along the way, he's had the good fortune to work ...

Continue Reading...

Drummer/Percussionist Henry Brun's January 2011 Tour Dates.

Source: Two for the Show Media
January 4, 2011

Henry Brun January 2011 Dates

THURSDAY, JANUARY 13

Henry Brun & the Latin Playerz Orchestra at Catalina Bar, Los Angeles

FRIDAY, JAUNARY 14

Henry Brun & the Latin Playerz performing at NAMM, Sheraton Parks Jazz Lounge, Anaheim, CA 7:40 pm

SATURDAY, JANUARY 15

LP at NAMM

THURSDAY, JANUARY 20

Henry Quartet featuring Judi Deleon performing for the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce at Pearl Stable, San Antonio, TX 6:00 pm

SATURDAY, JANUARY 22

Henry Brun & the Latin Playerz ...

Continue Reading...

Jimmy Webb to Perform for Presenters Dolan's Upcoming Cabaret Series

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 4, 2011

The Presenters Dolan have announced a new schedule of cabaret shows to be presented in February and March at the Kranzberg Arts Center. The upcoming series' best known performer is singer and songwriter Jimmy Webb (pictured), who will play the Kranzberg from Thursday, March 17 through Saturday, March 19. Webb, the Grammy Award winning writer of 1960s vintage pop hits such as “By The Time I Get To Phoenix," “Didn't We" and “MacArthur Park," will be singing his own songs ...

Continue Reading...

Over the Rhine Announces CD, Tour

Source: conqueroo
January 4, 2011

March and April dates to hit theaters in Midwest and East including New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston and more CINCINNATI, Ohio—Over the Rhine is ready to make waves in 2011 with a new release and spring tour dates that will take them to theaters throughout the Midwest and the East Coast. The Long Surrender, the new studio album from the southern Ohio-based husband-and-wife team of multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Linford Detweiler and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Karin Bergquist, is something rare and wondrous—an intimate ...

Continue Reading...

Vicki Burns Debuts at Studio 100 in New York!

Source: Vicki-Lyn Burns
January 3, 2011

Jazz vocalist Vicki Burns will be debuting at the Studio 100 jazz club in the Residence Inn by Marriott on Thursday January 13th at 7:00pm. With her will be Leonard Thompson on piano and Mike Karn on bass!

About Vicki Burns

Vicki Burns is a jazz singer who has been delighting audiences for years. A vocalist with impeccable taste, a sure sense of rhythm and a glorious tone, she infuses each song with heartfelt expression, digging into the ...

Continue Reading...

ETJ Makes Rochester One of Tamir Hendelman Trio's "Destinations"

Source: Jazz@Rochester
January 3, 2011

In his recent profile of the Tamir Hendelman Trio in City for his upcoming January 9th concert in the Exodus to Jazz series, a stop on his tour for his new CD Destinations on Resonance Records, Ron Netsky described a moment a Barbra Streisand set at the Village Vanguard in 2009, when:[T]he attention shifted from the diva to her pianist. In a brief solo toward the end of “Some Other Time" Tamir Hendelman played a run so complicated and so beautiful that ...

Continue Reading...

Tamir Hendelman Trio at Chris' Jazz Cafe on January 8, 2011

Source: All About Jazz
January 2, 2011

Award-winning jazz pianist Tamir Hendelman who has performed with the Jeff Hamilton Trio, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Harry Allen, Teddy Edwards, Warren Vache and Houston Person, will be be performing at Chris' Jazz Cafe on January 8, 2011. Hendelamn leads his own trio in support of his recent CD, Destinations. Tamir Hendelman Trio Tamir Hendelman—piano Martin Wind—bass Tim Horner—drums January 8, 2011 Sets @ 8 & 10 PM Chris' Jazz ...

Continue Reading...