Performance / Tour News

Columbian Singer Maria Mulata and Latin Jazz Big Band Perform at Berklee in Boston on November 2

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
October 28, 2010

Singer and composer Maria Mulata opens the evening with a set of Columbian music that embodies the traditions and multi-layered musicial influences of her homeland. Then Bernardo Hernandez takes the stage with a Latin big band that includes Berklee students and special guests Victor Mendoza and Cuban percussionist Jorge Najarro. The concert takes place at 8:15 p.m. on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston. General admission is $10 and tickets can be ordered online. For ...

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Jeff Beck to Perform at NFL Wembley Game; Live Album Out

Source: JamBase
October 28, 2010

BECK WILL PERFORM UK NATIONAL ANTHEM FOR HALLOWEEN NFL MATCH-UP; LIVE AND EXCLUSIVE FROM THE GRAMMY MUSEUM OUT NOW Legendary guitarist Jeff Beck will perform the United Kingdom's national anthem “God Save the Queen" in London's famous Wembley Stadium for the opener of the NFL's yearly overseas match-up. This year's contest features the Denver Broncos taking on the San Francisco 49ers. The game kicks off this Sunday, October 31, at 1PM EST. Earlier this year, Beck electrified an intimate audience ...

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Robert Johnson Centennial Concerts: Fall Tour and CD

Source: JamBase
October 28, 2010

TOUR STARTS JAN. 28; STUDIO ALBUM TO BE RELEASED EARLY 2011 There's no denying anyone who digs the Blues will really dig the once-in-a-lifetime experience that is Blues at the Crossroads: The Robert Johnson Centennial Concerts. The very special tour (set to launch in San Francisco on Jan. 28, 2011) and accompanying studio recording (to be released early 2011) commemorates the 100th Anniversary of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson's birth with exhilarating collaborations between Big Head Todd and The Monsters, living ...

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Jazz This Week: Reggie Thomas, Lamar Harris, Denise Thimes, Classical Jazz Quartet, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
October 28, 2010

If you can evade the ghosts, ghouls, zombies, vampires, werewolves and assorted other creatures of the night that no doubt will be stalking the streets of St. Louis this Halloween weekend, there's plenty of jazz and creative music to be heard around town over the next few days. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, singer Denise Thimes performs at the Sheldon Concert Hall in her annual benefit for the Mildred Thimes Foundation, named after her late mother. Thimes' special guest ...

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Jazz Around Town: Nothing Like Writing My Listings Post at a Bar...

Source: Jazz@Rochester
October 28, 2010

Putting together the post offsite at the most recent entry to the jazz venue scene here, Tala Vera Cantina, sipping some XX and having some of their habenero based Salsa Verde-Muerta while I wait for Rick Holland Quintet to come in and perform. Oh, and writing this post... I'll have more on Tala Vera in a later post, but artists (not just jazz, too) should link through to their site and contact Bernard Matthews, the owner, about gigging here. They're ...

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Tim Warfield Organ Band with Terrell Stafford in Harrisburg on November 14th

Source: Michael Ricci
October 27, 2010

Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz presents the Tim Warfield Organ Band, with special guest Terrell Stafford on trumpet, live in concert Sunday, November 14th at 6pm. The Tim Warfield Organ Band, with special guest Terrell Stafford is the last of our 2010 monthly concert series sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz. We'll celebrate the release of Tim's new CD, A Sentimental Journey (Criss Cross, 2010). A top youth band from an area high school or college will open ...

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Eric Person Releases New CDs, Readies for European Tour

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
October 27, 2010

Saxophonist, composer and St. Louis native Eric Person has just released his latest CD The Grand Illusion (pictured) via his own Distinction Records label. Recorded with his electric band Metamorphosis, the disc is Person's eighth CD as a leader. The Grand Illusion features 13 original compositions in what Person calls his “rhythm and groove" style, and is available through online retailer CD Baby. In addition to Person on saxophones and flute, musicians performing on the CD include guitarist Cary DeNigris, ...

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Ladies of Jazz Concert, San Jose, CA

Source: Jeff Rzepiela Public Relations
October 27, 2010

Don't miss a fun filled evening with Ladies of Jazz Singer/Songwriters Melissa Dinwiddie, Jennifer Lee, Cathi Walkup, and Leanne Weatherly. All four Bay Area ladies will perform their own original material ranging from straight-ahead jazz, to comical swing, to beautiful, touching ballads with David Udolf on piano, Paul Smith on bass, and Terry Loose on drums backing them up. This show was so popular it completely sold out when they performed in Santa Clara this summer.

Jazz singer/songwriter Melissa Dinwiddie ...

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