Performance / Tour News

Trombone Shorty Joins Jeff Beck's U.K. Tour

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
August 3, 2010

Performing on Jeff Beck's U.K. tour is the latest highlight in Trombone Shorty's milestone year. His career highlights date back to sitting in with Bo Diddley at the ripe age of four, but this year, powered by his Verve Forecast debut, Backatown, is one for the record books for Troy “Trombone Shorty" Andrews. The CD entered the Contemporary Jazz Album chart at # 1, spending nine weeks there, before the new Herbie Hancock CD finally broke his hold on the ...

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Jazz in Jersey City Friday

Source: The Augmented Ear by John Patten
August 3, 2010

If you've a taste for jazz delivered fresh, head to Casa Dante in Jersey City, Friday. Laura Hull will be joining Vic Juris and Steve LaSpina for a set starting at 7:30 p.m.

If you've not heard Ms. Hull, be sure to visit her website; ditto for Mr. Juris, one of the best guitarists in the area. They should make a great combination. Ms. Hull is not only one of New Jersey's busiest performers, she's also the current president of ...

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Two Weeks, One Stage: The Forging of 40Twenty's Sound

Source: AAJ Staff
August 3, 2010

The band's name, 40Twenty, has nothing to do with the John Deere 4020 family-farm tractor, extraordinary long-range vision or the numerical code for smoking marijuana. It's a Brooklyn jazz group with the trombonist Jacob Garchik, the pianist Jacob Sacks, the bassist Dave Ambrosio and the drummer Vinnie Sperrazza. The name refers to the 40-20 set, a grueling 1950s nightclub-booking practice in which jazz groups played up to five 40-minute sets a night, separated by 20-minute breaks. 40Twenty is doing a ...

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Other Places: Kilgore in New York

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
August 1, 2010

If you live in New York City or are headed there this week, you're in luck. Rebecca Kilgore is in town, sharing a gig at Feinstein's with the tenor saxophonist Harry Allen and his quartet. I learned of her appearance by way of The Wall Street Journal's WSJ.com, which has a New York Culture section that doesn't show up in the national print edition. Will Friedwald wrote the piece about Kilgore. He underlines the rarity of her appearances in The ...

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Herbie Hancock's 2010 World Tour: Social Music for a New Era

Source: RJ on Jazz by R.J. DeLuke
August 1, 2010

Herbie Hancock's got something to say about the chaos in the world and he's saying it with music. He calls it The Imagine Project, which is the title to his latest recording released in June on his own Hancock Records label. It's also the theme for his world tour that's returning to the U.S in August.Speaking in early July while from a hotel in Spain overlooking the Mediterranean Sea--ahhhhh. The Life--Hancock says the tour is going well. The ...

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Al Jarreau to Resume Touring on Aug. 3

Source: JamaicaMusic Offbeat
August 1, 2010

Jazz star Al Jarreau's management has sought to clarify circumstances surrounding his health and hospitalization on the singer's website. Ihe statement posted, which also indicates that the tour will resume August 3 in Hanau, Germany, at Amphitheatre Schloss Philippsruhe, clarified that 'Jarreau did not collapse during a performance as had been reported in the international press, but rather he was feeling weak in his dressing room, hours before his performance. A doctor was called for immediately and singer ...

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What I Learned at NMS: Count Clicks to Content

Source: HypeBot
August 1, 2010

This post is by Ryan Van Etten (@ryanve), Editor/Producer of VirtualMusic.tv; he was our featured corespondent at New Music Seminar in New York.

Mr. Owl, How many clicks does it take to get tothe rock n' roll center of a retail mp3? Let's find out.A One... A two-HOO...too many!

Mr. Owl just Bit Torrented right into your album because it was easier than buying it on iTunes. It took less clicks.

Jay Frank suggested counting “clicks to content." ...

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Marc Hoffman Brings Original Jazz To Hearst Tower Plaza

Source: blueplate pr
July 31, 2010

(CHARLOTTE, NC)--In association with the recent release of his new CD “Curioso," recording artist Marc Hoffman of Salisbury will perform a solo piano instrumental concert at Hearst Tower Plaza in Charlotte on Thursday, August 5, from noon until 2 p.m., that will include tunes from the CD. “Curioso" represents a wide variety of jazz styles, some of which were inspired by other musicians' work. The song “Hefti," for example, channels the light, lyrical work of Neal Hefti. “Pontified" is Hoffman's ...

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