Performance / Tour News

Benevento/Russo Duo Confirm Only 2010 Show

Source: JamBase
June 17, 2010

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Fagen, McDonald, Scaggs North American Tour

Source: JamBase
June 17, 2010

TICKETS GO ON SALE JUNE 18

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriters Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs are uniting this summer and fall to tour as “The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue." “The Dukes of September" will launch their nationwide “Rhythm Revue" on August 19 at the Charles Ives Center in Danbury, CT, and will continue across the country throughout the fall, before wrapping on October 2 at The Joint in Las Vegas, NV.

The concerts will feature hits and deep ...

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Jazz Comes to Murray Hill Via Venetian Restaurant

Source: Michael Ricci
June 17, 2010

Chic Venetian restaurant and lounge Zorzi located in Murray Hill (1 East 35th Street) will begin offering jazz on Saturday evenings from 8pm - 11:30pm in their main dining room.

The weekly series, coordinated by Charles Carlini of In Touch Entertainment, begins in earnest on June 26 with the Grant Stewart Trio. For reservations or info, please call (212) 213-9167.

Zorzi serves Northern Italian specialties (including plenty of polenta and seafood), plus pasta classics from other regions, in a stone-and-metal ...

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Jazz This Week: Peter Martin, Tim Cunningham, Peter Schlamb and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 17, 2010

It's a relatively light week for jazz performances in St. Louis, but there are at least a handful of shows worth noting around town. Here's a quick look:Tonight, pianist Peter Martin leads his trio in a free concert for the Whitaker Music Festival at Missouri Botanical Garden. For more on Martin, see StLJN's previous coverage here.Tomorrow, the Latin/jazz group Samba Bom does a free outdoor concert at St. Louis Place Park.On Friday and Saturday, ...

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Patti Wicks's Jazzy Turn at the Metropolitan Room

Source: Michael Ricci
June 16, 2010

The jazz singer and pianist Patti Wicks is all about rhythmic deconstruction. Like the much-missed Carmen McRae, Ms. Wicks, who appeared at the Metropolitan Room on Monday evening with the bassist Linc Milliman, scrutinizes songs with a raised eyebrow. Words and phrases are dismantled with a wry deliberation and an improvisatory boldness that put a question mark at the end of songs, especially when the lyrics are sentimental. Her attitude suggests a certain disbelief: “Oh, really?" she seems to imply. ...

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Dr. John: Night Trippin' at the Grammy Museum

Source: Michael Ricci
June 16, 2010

Nearly two months into the worst oil spill in history, a Facebook group has sprung up for people who support British Petroleum and think the company has gotten a bad rap. Don't look for Dr. John's name on that page's friends list.

Let BP foot the bill, he interjected into “Black Gold," a song about the consequences of the “Drill, baby, drill!" mentality from his 2008 post-Hurricane Katrina album, City That Care Forgot, which won the Grammy Award for best ...

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Jose James and Jef Neve at Regattabar in Cambridge on June 16

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
June 15, 2010

Jazz vocalist Jose James and Belgian pianist Jef Neve are performing at the Regattabar Jazz Club at Charles Hotel in Harvard Square, Cambridge, on Wednesday, June 16 at 7:30 p.m.Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online or by calling 617 395-7757.The show celebrates the release of their new CD, For All We Know, issued by Impulse! Records.James, born and raised in Minneapolis, is the son of a jazz saxophonist from Panama. James studied ...

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Sting's Classical Effect

Source: Michael Ricci
June 15, 2010

The former Police front man is touring with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. Unlike his former band's reunion tour, he is enjoying himself.

As the afternoon sun poured through the living room window of his grand apartment overlooking Central Park, Sting was calmly reflecting on his trying reunion with the Police, and anticipating, with genuine excitement, his current tour with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, performing imaginative new versions of his solo and Police hits. Sitting on a stately sofa ...

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