Performance / Tour News

Gary Numan | L.A. | Review | Pics

Source: JamBase
December 1, 2010

Words & Images by: L. Paul Mann Gary Numan :: 11.03.10 :: El Rey Theatre :: Los Angeles, CA Gary Numan, the godfather of English synth music, played a rare pair of live shows at the El Rey Theatre on November 3rd and 4th. The Los Angeles concerts had been rescheduled from the original April dates after the Icelandic Volcano shut down many of Europe's main airports. The show was, initially a tribute to the 30th Anniversary of the U.S. ...

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Jazz This Week: Pat Martino, Romero Lubambo and Peter Martin, Tatsuya Nakatani, Barb Jungr, New Music Circle Showcase, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
December 1, 2010

It's a busy time for jazz and creative music over the next few days in St. Louis, with events in styles ranging from soulful mainstream swing to adventurous free improv, plus holiday music, a tribute to a fallen Beatle, and lots more besides. Let's go to the highlights: Perhaps the best known musician visiting our town this week is guitarist Pat Martino, who plays tonight through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. Martino is an acknowledged master of the classic ...

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Jazz Monsters Invade Las Vegas

Source: other-now.
November 30, 2010

Jazz monsters spotted at the Freakin' Frog... For all the hype about Vegas headliners, the neon names everyone knows, the town is truly overrun with less-well known, fabulous players and voices most often seen as tuxedoed sidemen and slinky backup singers. Real monsters; many renowned worldwide for musical skills you seldom see shining, upstage in the shadows. It almost seems as if Las Vegas takes that great talent for granted. Often as not, their great passion (while not at the ...

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Rush Announces 2011 North American Dates

Source: JamBase
November 30, 2010

TOUR STARTS MARCH 30 IN FT. LAUDERDALE Rush have confirmed The Time Machine Tour will visit new cities throughout North America and play a few return engagements beginning March 30 in Ft. Lauderdale and running through April 22 in 2011 with dates in Greensboro, Nashville, Louisville, Toledo, Hershey, New York's esteemed Madison Square Garden, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Hamilton, Montreal and Baltimore. The tour also returns to North America in June with performances in select markets that will include cities such ...

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This Week at The Cornelia Street Cafe: November 29 to December 6

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
November 29, 2010

This Week @ The CORNELIA STREET CAFE NOVEMBER 29—December 6, 2010 Venue: The Cornelia Street Café “A Culinary As Well A Cultural Landmark" Proclamation, City of New York, 1987

For reservations and more info call 212-989-9319 Located at 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, NYC 10014, [email protected] Showtimes: Weeknights: 6:00 PM, 8:30 PM, 10:00 PM, Weekends: 6:00 PM, 9:00 PM and 10:30 PM (doors open @ 5:45 PM-early shows, & @ ...

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UCLA Live Presents Alice Coltrane Tribute Dec. 5 All-star evening includes performances from McCoy Tyner, Kyp Malone, Nels Cline, Han Bennink, Daniel Carter, Michael White & Leisei Chen, Radha Botofasina, plus Flying Lotus and special guests

Source: Jessica Wolf
November 29, 2010

UCLA Live Presents Alice Coltrane Tribute Dec. 5 All-star evening includes performances from McCoy Tyner, Kyp Malone, Nels Cline, Han Bennink, Daniel Carter, Michael White & Leisei Chen, Radha Botofasina, plus Flying Lotus and special guests LOS ANGELES—A host of jazz luminaries and some of modern music's most exciting artists gather on the Royce Hall stage Sunday, December 5 at 7 p.m. in honor of the legendary Alice Coltrane. Led by Kyp Malone, of TV on the Radio and Rain ...

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Back Alley Players Live at the Sugar Bar with Special Appearance by Piano Great David Bennett Cohen

Source: Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
November 29, 2010

New York, NY—The Back Alley Players perform live every Tuesday night at 8:00 PM at Ashford & Simpson's legendary Sugar Bar in NYC as the house band in its weekly Tuesday night “Nuttin' But the Blues" series hosted by Nick Ashford of Ashford and Simpson which frequently features multiple guests. Yet on Tuesday, December 14th, 2010, sitting in with the band will be special guest David Bennett Cohen, the original pianist for Country Joe and the Fish and a dynamic ...

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Austin-Based Trumpeter Erik Telford to Appear with His Sextet, the Erik Telford Collective, at Kuumbwa (Santa Cruz) 1/13 & Jazzschool (Berkeley) 1/15

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
November 29, 2010

Austin trumpeter/composer Erik Telford returns to his native California in January 2011 to perform two concerts with his Texas-based sextet, the Erik Telford Collective—on Thursday 1/13, at Kuumbwa in Santa Cruz, and Saturday 1/15, at the Jazzschool in Berkeley. The shows are in support of his debut CD Kinetic, which Telford released earlier this year on his ETJ Music label. The Boston Globe's Steve Greenlee wrote of Kinetic that it “represents everything that is right with contemporary jazz.... Telford announces ...

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