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The New Deal: Fall Tour

Source: JamBase
September 2, 2010

TOUR STARTS SEPTEMBER 4 AT THE NORTH COAST MUSIC FESTIVAL IN CHICAGO The New Deal have announced the dates for their “Ginormous" fall tour. The tour will feature some very exciting special guests and great new venues on the run. On Wednesday, the band will begin the tour at Cleveland's famed Beachland Ballroom, where they will be joined by local heroes, The Werks. Check out the rest of the dates below. Special holiday show announcement coming soon. Tour Dates Sept ...

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Umphrey's McGee: The Tabernacle Documentary

Source: JamBase
September 2, 2010

On February 6, 2010, Umphrey's McGee took the stage at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA for a now legendary performance in front of a rabid sold out crowd. The energy in the historic room was so contagious that it created a palpable band-audience synergy, propelling the music to incredible heights. Luckily, the band's HD video camera captured the show from the soundboard and now you can experience The Tabernacle, a short film directed by the band's lighting designer Jefferson Waful, ...

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Site News: Calendar Update and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 2, 2010

Yr. humble editor has just completed a fairly major update to the St. Louis Jazz Notes Calendar, which can be found in the left-hand column of the main StLJN site; under the “Calendar" tab on StLJN's Facebook page, and on its very own page here. The updated calendar has dozens of new listings, including the 2010-11 season schedules for Jazz at the Bistro, the Sheldon Concert Hall, New Music Circle and several other local presenters, as well as an assortment ...

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A celebrated Austin lounge group re-creates itself in Richmond

Source: Michael Ricci
September 1, 2010

By Brent Baldwin The Recliners retrofit Cream, Billy Idol and Beastie Boys into lounge versions at nite clubs and venues throughout Richmond and the north eastern United States as well as the southwest and west coast. The Richmond music scene could always use a little more good humor. All that math rock, jazz and metal is so damn serious. Enter The Recliners, your new lounge band, playing cheesy (but technically adept), oddly soothing versions of popular modern songs be they ...

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Jerome Sabbagh/Danny Grissett Duet - Miles Cafe - September 4

Source: Jerome Sabbagh
September 1, 2010

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Will Sellenraad Quartet at 55 Bar on Sunday Sept. 5

Source: Michael Ricci
September 1, 2010

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Lenny White: Live and New York Hot with the Anomaly Band at Catalina's

Source: Jazz (Jazzers Jazzing) by Carl L. Hager
September 1, 2010

West Coast jazz has traditionally been cool to the East Coast's hot. Dave Brubeck is always pictured in white linen slacks playing an open air concert-by-the-sea, while Charlie Parker is shown popping a Saturday night sweat in his sharkskin suit, squeezed onto a crowded nightclub stage. The iconography extends to the West Coast audience. Like a glass of chablis, chilled, slow and laid back compared to an East Coaster's whiskey shot, feverish, fast and hard. The stereotypes are simplistic and ...

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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Robots Announce Fall Tour

Source: JamBase
September 1, 2010

THOSE AUTOMATONS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT! Our mechanical friends can be helpful or scary and, in this instance, serious jazz heads who dig the new Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey album, Stay Gold, and plan to catch the band on the road this fall. JFJO Fall Stay Gold Tour 09/03 Chelsea's—Baton Rouge, LA 09/04 Benies Boom Boom Room—Hattiesburg, MS 09/05 Louisiana Music Factory—New Orleans, LA (in store performance) 09/05 Blue Nile—New Orleans, LA ...

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