Performance / Tour News

Orrin Evans Leads His Big Band at Iridium

Source: AAJ Staff
October 1, 2010

You've heard of the leadership crisis in America? Orrin Evans is not part of that problem. Running a jazz big band in 2010 involves skill in composing, arranging, conducting and scheduling; it also involves nerve, because a big band these days is naturally a kind of statement, a platform for adventuresome writing or maintaining a tradition. And it takes strength: musical and physical. Mr. Evans, a pianist from Philadelphia in his mid-30s, is right for the job. Even when he ...

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Ray Vega and Thomas Marriott at the New Orleans Friday Night

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
October 1, 2010

New York trumpeter Ray Vega will be in Seattle this weekend so the East-West Trumpet Summit will take the stage at The New Orleans this Friday.

Earlier this year Vega and Thomas Marriott's CD reached #1 on the JazzWeek National Airplay Chart and continues to have a strong presence across the country, currently holding the #14 spot for all of 2010.

Marriott's regular Friday quartet will back up the dueling trumpets, Rick Mandyck on piano, Phil Sparks on bass and ...

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Rubber Soulive Tour Starts This Weekend

Source: JamBase
October 1, 2010

RUBBER SOULIVE DEBUTS AT NO.1 ON ITUNES JAZZ CHART Soulive has announced U.S. tour dates for the remainder of 2010 in support of their ninth studio album, Rubber Soulive. The 27-show run kicks off this weekend with a New York City hometown blow out dubbed The Royal Family Ball at Terminal 5, featuring special guests John Scofield, Talib Kweli, Christian Scott, Big Sam and Maurice Brown, as well as Royal Family crew Nigel Hall, Lettuce and The Shady Horns. Other ...

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Sade: First Tour in Ten Years

Source: JamBase
October 1, 2010

ADDITIONAL DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON Following the platinum selling success of Soldier of Love, Sade announces their highly anticipated return to the world's stage. The North American leg, produced by Live Nation, begins on June 16 in Baltimore, Maryland at the 1st Mariner's Arena. Tickets go on sale in select markets beginning October 16 at LiveNation.com with additional dates to be announced soon.

Thu Jun 16 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena Sat Oct 16 Sun Jun 19 Philadelphia, PA ...

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Jazz at the Bistro, Peter Martin, "Jazz Unlimited" Among Riverfront Times' "Best of St. Louis" for 2010

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

Jazz at the Bistro is named “Best Jazz Club“ and pianist Peter Martin is cited as “Best Jazz Artist“ in the Riverfront Times' 2010 “Best of St. Louis" edition, which came out today. In addition, KWMU's “Jazz Unlimited," hosted by Dennis Owsley, was named “Best Jazz Radio Program“; BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups gets the nod as “Best Blues Club“; singer/guitarist/teenage phenom Marquise Knox is 2010's “Best Blues Artist“; and Devil At The Confluence, Kevin Belford's history of pre-World War ...

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Darius Jones Trio to Play New York, Seattle and Vancouver in October

Source: Improvised Communications
October 1, 2010

Two weeks from tonight, on October 14th, alto saxophonist/composer Darius Jones and his working trio, featuring bassist Adam Lane and drummer Jason Nazary, will perform at SALT Space in New York as part of Destination:Out's new Loft/Lab concert series. The following week, the band (with Ryan Sawyer sitting in for Nazary) will make its first-ever trip to the West Coast for dates at The Ironworks in Vancouver (10/22) and the Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle (10/23). Jones is a rising ...

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Deep Songs at the Ear (Sept. 26, 2010)

Source: Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
September 30, 2010

It was another elevating night at The Ear Inn (326 Spring Street). Nothing could spoil the collective merriment—not the fact that the subways were perversely unpredictable, not the untrained owner with the overeager dog who knocked over a beer and nearly ruined one of Jon-Erik Kellso's antique mutes, never meant for a lager-bath. No, when Jon-Erik, Scott Robinson (tenor and soprano this time), Matt Munisteri, and Pat O'Leary join forces, it's a delightful and always surprising musical encounter. And (later ...

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Matthew Montfort and Bui Huu Nhut of Ancient Future Featured on Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC

Source: Michael Ricci
September 30, 2010

Matthew Montfort, guitarist and bandleader of the pioneering world fusion music group Ancient Future, was interviewed and performed on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC on Friday, September 24th, 2010. Kent Jones, the Rachel Maddow Show's pop-culturist, was in San Francisco September 23rd and 24th to cover the opening of the Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival. Matthew Montfort kicked off the festival by showcasing his unusual guitars: the Godin Glissentar, an 11 string fretless guitar, and the scalloped fretboard ...

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