Performance / Tour News

Jazz This Week: Kim Thompson Drums, Local Divas Sing, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
August 8, 2010

As often happens around this time of year, its a relatively light weekend for live jazz in St. Louis. Several of our town's not-for-profit presenters, including Jazz at the Bistro, the Nu-Art Series, and Washington University's Jazz at Holmes series, wrapped up their summer schedules of events last week, while others, including the Sheldon and the TouPAC, remain on break until September.Nevertheless, in addition to the usual menu of local musicians' recurring weekly gigs, there are a few ...

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Za Lon's Jazz Noir in the Galerie Lounge TD

Source: AAJ Staff
August 8, 2010

The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal and the Galerie Lounge TD in the Maison du Festival Rio Tinto Alcan are proud to present works on canvas and paper by painter and urban artist Zïlon, created especially to launch the autumn season in the Galerie. From August 5 to September 26, 2010, we invite one and all to join us for the Jazz noir exhibition, created by the man whom Canadian theatrical figure Wajdi Mouawad called “Van Gogh's little brother." ...

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Budos Band: Album and Tour

Source: JamBase
August 7, 2010

THE BUDOS BAND III OUT AUGUST 10; FREE MP3 AVAILABLE; TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

The Budos Band On August 10, 2010, Daptone Records will release The Budos Band III, unleashing The Budos Band's brazen sound and inspiring fervor among music lovers throughout the world. Produced by Bosco Mann and TNT at Daptone Records' “House of Soul Studios" in Bushwick, Brooklyn, the band's third full-length studio effort was conceived during weekly, beer-fueled Staten Island writing sessions—as well as more than 150 live ...

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David S. Ware Trio Coming to the Blue Note October 4th

Source: Improvised Communications
August 8, 2010

On Monday, October 4th, eminent saxophonist David S. Ware will celebrate his September release, Onecept (AUM Fidelity), with a two-set performance at the Blue Note in New York. The recording, which marks Ware's 50th anniversary as a saxophonist, is his first studio project since his May 2009 kidney transplant and features him on three different horns: saxello, stritch and tenor saxophone. Joining him in this trio, which made the recording in December and played live for the first time in ...

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Ryan Keberle Double Quartet @ the Rubin Art Museum August 27th

Source: Ryan Keberle
August 7, 2010

The Ryan Keberle Double Quartet will be performing at the Rubin Art Museum on August 27th at 7pm as part of their Harlem in the Himalayas series, presented in conjunction with the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Mr. Keberle will be performing music from his critically acclaimed, recently released CD, Heavy Dreaming. Here's what the critics have to say: “Keberle's broad compositional ideals, along with his superb ability to balance the big and the small within his band, helps place ...

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San Francisco Bay Blues & Jazz Scene

Source: All About Jazz
August 6, 2010

The Fillmore Jazz Era

From the mid-1940s through the late 1950s, The Fillmore was known as the Harlem of the West, a vibrant cultural treasure that was one of the worlds leading centers for jazz music and jazz culture.

Jazz was popular in the Fillmore as early as 1930, and as the black population of San Francisco grew tenfold between 1940 and 1950, more than two dozen nightclubs with live music dotted Fillmore Street.

The nightspots and afterhours clubs of ...

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The Chick Corea Trio with Christian McBride & Brian Blade at Dominion-Chalmers United Church (Ottawa) on October 3

Source: Charlotte Juane
August 6, 2010

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2010, 7:00PM Dominion-Chalmers United Church

Reserved $56.50 General admission: $50.85 Student prices (11 to 25 years, with valid student ID): $22.60 (tax included).

The Ottawa Jazz Festival is pleased to announce that sixteen-time Grammy winner Chick Corea will convene an all-star trio in Ottawa on Sunday, October 3, 7pm at Dominion-Chalmers United Church, 355 Cooper Street, (corner Cooper and O'Connor). Christian McBride, the most acclaimed bassist of his generation, and drummer extraordinaire Brian Blade, ...

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Daryl Sherman and Joe Temperley at Knickerbocker (NYC) August 20/21

Source: Daryl Sherman
August 5, 2010

Pianist/vocalist Daryl Sherman and Joe Temperley on baritone and soprano sax reprise their special duo format on August 20, 21 (9:45pmר am) at Knickerbocker, 33 University Place and 9th St. 212-228-8490. Sherman's light bright singing (reminicent of Mildred Bailey and Blossom Dearie) along with her rollicky swinging piano make a perfect foil for Temperley, who continues to anchor the sax section of Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. “It takes a brave vocalist to share the spotlight with a baritone saxophonist as ...

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