Performance / Tour News

Bill Frisell's "Beautiful Dreamers" Tour Schedule

Source: CHC Network
June 26, 2010

Bill Frisell will release his new CD Beautiful Dreamers (Savoy Jazz) on August 31, 2010.

Joining Bill on this project are Eyvind Kang on viola and Rudy Royston on drums. They first performed together as a trio in 2008.

Produced by longtime collaborator and manager, Lee Townsend, the disc includes both original compositions and reinterpretations of songs by Blind Willie Johnson and Benny Goodman among others.

A Grammy winner and perennial Best Jazz Guitarist award winner, Frisell says of the ...

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Jazz This Week: Michael Buble, Kim Massie, Brave Combo, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 24, 2010

St. Louis may be without a major jazz festival this June, but fortunately there's enough other activity this weekend that many fans of jazz and creative music can probably find something to their liking.It looks like the busiest night of the next few is Friday; that's when singer Michael Buble (pictured), who's arguably a jazz-influenced pop singer rather than a jazz singer per se, brings his current tour to the Scottrade Center, and singer Kim Massie opens a ...

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Gene Ess - Modes of Limited Transcendence - Concert - June 25

Source: Michael Ricci
June 25, 2010

Award winning guitarist Gene Ess will perform with his stellar quartet on June 25th. The group will feature Gene's original compositions from his Modes of Limited Transcendence album. This album received a prestigious award from SESAC on March, 2010 for “outstanding jazz performance".

Accompanying Gene Ess on guitar is Greg Tardy on saxophone, Thomson Kneeland on bass, and Gene Jackson on drums. Come and share in the creative process!

June 25, 2010 @ 8PM and 10PM - $20 cover

Miles ...

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Lenny White Tour with Jimmy Herring on Guitars

Source: Michael Ricci
June 25, 2010

PIONEERING FUSION DRUMMER LENNY WHITE TO EMBARK ON FIRST SOLO TOUR IN OVER A DECADE

Via his genre-defining stint in Return To Forever, his long-admired contributions to Miles Davis's legendary Bitches Brew album, and sessions with everyone from Gil Evans to Stan Getz to Joe Henderson, Lenny White has played a crucial role in expanding the boundaries of jazz, adding a thrilling dose of rock muscle to its inherent improvisational fabric. His influence is widely felt, and his still-evolving creative ...

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Nite Life Los Angeles

Source: All About Jazz
June 25, 2010

Jazzing Around the Southland

Thursday Night Carlene Carter The Echo Thu., June 24, 7:00pm When Nashville was flooded this past Mayday, over 30 people were killed and many more lost homes, recording studios, and musical instruments. Few musicians have ever been very good at taking care of their own health and well-being, but they rally when others are in need. The noble brothers and sisters at MusiCares have set up the MusiCares ...

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Free-Jazz Manifestoes Declared Nightly

Source: Michael Ricci
June 24, 2010

Nate Wooley, sitting and aiming his trumpet toward a microphone about four feet in front of him, played free improvisation almost without affect. On Monday, at the Lower East Side bar Local 269, he was a third of the band Crackleknob, the guitarist Mary Halvorson, the bassist Reuben Radding.

Mr. Wooley used a lot of extended technique, of which there's been a long history in free jazz: drawn-out tones decaying into hisses and pops, sucking air inward through the instrument, ...

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Kid Millions a Percussion Obsessive Adds Even More Drums

Source: Michael Ricci
June 24, 2010

Kid Millions, the anchor of the band Oneida, is a mild-mannered 37-year-old by day.

He has built a career on percussive longevity, bashing away at his instrument for hours on end with fury and expert precision. For 13 years he has been the anchor of the Brooklyn band Oneida, whose songs mix hypnotic Minimalism with skull-rattling metal and tend to hit their pulsating stride only around the 15-minute mark.

So it makes sense that for his most personal project, Kid ...

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Jazz Lives as UCLA Live Eliminates International Theater Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
June 24, 2010

UCLA Live has officially extinguished the house lights on its signature international theater festival, eliminating theater from its 2010-11 schedule, announced Tuesday.

The series will offer a reduced number of individual performances in dance, jazz, world music and more 47 this season, down from 85 performances last year. But the entire theater festival was a casualty of budgetary and other economic factors.

Christopher Waterman, the dean of the arts and architecture school, said he and members of Chancellor Gene Block's ...

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