Performance / Tour News

Up-Coming Music at Boxley's and Hiroshi's

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
July 12, 2010

BOXLEY'S Live Music for North Bend, 7 nights a week 101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA 98045 ph: (425) 292-9307 www.boxleysplace.com no cover charge

THURSDAY STABLEMATES, JULY 8 ZACHARY KELLOGG--amazing and award winning young jazz flute talent celebrates his new CD releases, Red Velvet. Presented by Greg Metcalf, sax; with rhythm section of Hansen, Hamar & Williamson.

FRIDAYS: CLARK GIBSON TRIO, JULY 9 - plays standards and music from his new Pony ...

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New Music Seminar Announces Updated Conference Schedule and Speaker Line Up

Source: HypeBot
July 12, 2010

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Rodrigo Y Gabriela: Tour Dates New Video for "Hanuman"

Source: JamBase
July 12, 2010

GUITAR SHREDDING DUO HEADLINES MAJOR U.S. VENUES

This summer Rodrigo y Gabriela will headline storied venues including the Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside of Denver/Boulder, CO, and Greek Theatres in LA and Berkeley (see schedule below). In the meantime the duo has a fresh video for the latest single from their the latest single from the recent release 11:11.

The beautifully shot, larger than life new video for “Hanuman" was directed by Olallo Rubio and shot in Mexico near Zihuatanejo. The ...

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Tyne Stecklein: The Mysterious Dancer of Jackson Memorial "Hold Me"

Source: All About Jazz
July 9, 2010

American pop star Michael Jackson had finally selected the 12 dancers who would be backing him during his O2 Arena gigs.

The backing dancers were picked after an X-Factor style competition to discover the most talented movers in the world. As many as 500 potential candidates performed during the three days of intense auditions at the Nokia Theatre LA LIVE in Los Angeles.

Jackson, show director Kenny Ortega, and his dancer from the Dangerous and History tours Travis Payne were ...

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Art Lillard's Heavenly Big Band at Iridium on August 10

Source: Michael Ricci
July 9, 2010

With guest sax soloist Bob Mover

Iridium 1650 Broadway @ 51st Street New York, NY

212-582-2121      

Tuesday, August 10 Sets at 8:00 and 10:00 P.M. Tickets: $25

About Art Lillard Art Lillard is a musician with many gifts. In each of his musical roles--drummer, composer, arranger and bandleader--he shares with us his unique and refreshing contribution to our musical culture. He has been leading his own jazz big-band, Art Lillard's Heavenly Band, since 1987, playing in ...

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Buster Williams Presents Flamenco Jazz Project at Iridium Jazz Club August 6-8, 2010

Source: Seton Hawkins
July 9, 2010

Bassist and composer Buster Williams leads his Something More ensemble in a presentation of flamenco and jazz entitled Spanish Sun--Flamenco Rising, with Mark Gross on saxophone, Eric Reed on piano, Ignacio Berroa on drums, and special guest Adam del Monte on flamenco guitar, at the Iridium Jazz Club August 6-8, 2010. Sets begin at 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. and feature a $25 cover charge.

Building upon his bandleader status as the head of the “Something More" Quartet, Mr. Williams ...

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Premik Russell Tubbs & Friends, an Evening of World Beat & East-West Improvisations

Source: Michael Ricci
July 9, 2010

Join Premik Russell Tubbs with 4 other top New York players for this musical evening as we explore and explode in colorful rhythms and textures to bring one on a journey...an escape of the mundane.

Adam Klipple will be on keys and piano. Enough can not be said about Adam as his innate intuitive music sense coupled with astounding skill is something you wont forget. He has been described as a standout pianist who has gone to school on McCoy ...

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Jazz duo JT Project started at William Paterson University

Source: The JT Project
July 9, 2010

The JT Project Contemporary jazz Friday, July 9, 2010, 11:45 p.m. The Iridium Jazz Club 1650 Broadway New York, NY Down in the catacombs of William Paterson University's music department one afternoon in 2007, Jacob Webb, a freshman jazz major from Kansas, heard a voice that drew him in like a siren song. He followed the melody as it grew louder down the maze-like hallway of practice rooms. “It was the most beautiful ...

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