Performance / Tour News

Marco Benevento Releases "Greenpoint" Free MP3 & Video, Celebrate Brooklyn Date Announced

Source: Michael Ricci
June 23, 2010

MARCO BENEVENTO Releases “Greenpoint" As Free MP3 & Handmade Video: Featured On NPR's All Things Considered: CELEBRATE BROOKLYN Date Announced

New York, New York -- Brooklyn-based pianist/"sound sculptor" Marco Benevento continues to break ground with his third studio album, Between The Needles & Nightfall. The album's opening track “Greenpoint" has been released as a free mp3 accompanied by Benevento's homemade video for the song.

“'Greenpoint' came from a series of ideas that I wrote on a circuit bent keyboard. It ...

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Tim Berne's Return

Source: Ars Nova Workshop
June 23, 2010

It's been an excellent time for Tim Berne fans at Ars Nova Workshop this season!  In mid-December of last year we had two back-to-back nights of Tim Berne projects and works as part of our Composer Portrait Series.  On December 11, Berne performed with the Collide Saxophone Quartet, and then led his Big Satan trio of Marc Ducet and Tom Rainey through an amazingly raucous set.  The following night, after a pre-concert discussion with New York Times music writer Nate ...

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Every Wednesday Through Saturday in July 2010 Live Jazz at the Kitano New York Hotel

Source: Michael Ricci
June 23, 2010

NEW YORK, NY - The Kitano New York offers some of New York City's top jazz entertainers every Wednesday through Saturday in its Bar Lounge at 66 Park Avenue (at 38th Street) in Manhattan, featuring no cover charge for most performances. Throughout the month of July The Kitano New York Hotel will continue to showcase a wide selection of renowned acts.

Jazz performances are held in the Bar Lounge, every Wednesday through Saturday with the first set from 8 p.m. ...

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Linda Ciofalo's West Coast Tour Features Her CD Tribute to Johnny Mercer, Dancing with Johnny

Source: Sound Visions Media
June 23, 2010

(New York, NY June 22, 2010) Linda Ciofalo makes her West Coast tour to sing selections from her latest CD, Dancing With Johnny. Ciofalo understands how to deliver a great lyric and on Dancing With Johnny, a special tribute to Johnny Mercer, she shines. Since Mercer is known for his endless brilliance as a first class writer of over 1,000 songs, Ciofalo is breath taking in her element. The songs showcase her tasteful vocal style and Ciofalo allows the strength ...

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Rocked by Waves of Drumrolls

Source: Michael Ricci
June 22, 2010

A waterborne performance of Iannis Xenakiss Persephassa, with Robert Esler on drums, was part of the Make Music New York festival.

The ducks that frequent Central Park Lake are used to keeping clear of people in rented rowboats lurching about the water. But on Monday afternoon they looked rattled by the strange sights and stranger sounds coming from makeshift platforms floating in the middle of the west side of the lake. A marionette version of the Iannis Xenakis opera Oresteia ...

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Gigging: John Ellis's "The Ice Siren"

Source: Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
June 22, 2010

Melding jazz with other idioms is a risky endeavor, one that often ends in a depletion of the music's greatest virtues. Much of the jazz-fusion of the 1970s synthesized the worst of jazz and the worst of rock into a watered-down sound. This can be pleasant enough, but how many of the genre's albums have the full-bodied kick and boozy head-rush of the early Stones or Miles's '60s quintet?

This isn't to say that great jazz can't converse with other ...

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Improvisational and Atmospheric Dialogues: A Tribute to an Avant-Gardist

Source: Michael Ricci
June 22, 2010

The avant-garde composer and multireedist Anthony Braxton had plenty of words for his admirers at Le Poisson Rouge on Friday night, when it was officially his turn to take the stage.

He talked about the striving of noncommercial artists. He referred to “geopolitical dynamics," adding that the world was still full of “men and women of goodwill." He expressed appreciation for the costume splendor of Lady Gaga. And finally he struck a note of retirement-party humor: “If you have to ...

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Vote on a Song for Galactic and Umphrey's to Play Together July 3

Source: JamBase
June 22, 2010

FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND GATHERING LETS FANS HAVE A SAY

Umphrey's McGee At the Red Rocks & Blue extravaganza on Saturday, July 3 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, Umphrey's McGee and Galactic are asking fans to use their freedom of choice and vote for a song that they'd like to hear the two acts play TOGETHER on July 3.

Fans can vote here.

Umph and Galactic will be joined by The Wailers and others at the Red Rocks & ...

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