Performance / Tour News

ZZK Records North American Tour Starts in July

Source: Press Junkie PR
June 10, 2010

BUENOS AIRES' ZZK RECORDS RETURNS TO NORTH AMERICA FOR A SUMMER 2010 TOUR FILLED WITH CUMBIA DIGITAL & DIGITAL FOLKLORICO

LOOKS TO FANS TO HELP FUND THEIR DEBUT VIDEO PROJECT

ZZK Records, Buenos Aires' most exciting and cutting edge record label, is returning to North America in July for what is shaping up to be their biggest tour of the region yet. The label has prominently risen to tastemaker status by introducing the world to “cumbia digital," a fresh sound ...

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Gigging: Tony Malaby's Tamarindo at Jazz Gallery

Source: Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
June 6, 2010

It's an oft-repeated trope that you can tell the best ethnic restaurants by the make-up of their clientele. Walk into a Chinese restaurant on Canal St. and see tables full of the coach-bus-to-Broadway crowd, and you can safely turn around and walk out. Hop to the place next-door and do a double-take to make sure you're not in Fujian, and you've probably hit the jackpot.

I've always thought of the Jazz Gallery as the music's New York hole-in-the-wall for people ...

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The Justin Ray Quartet at Vernon's Jazz Club on June 18th

Source: Michael Ricci
June 10, 2010

Vernon's Jazz Club proudly presents The Justin Ray Quartet Friday, June 18th @ 8:30 PM $10 Seating charge JUSTIN RAY began his musical career while attending Del Norte High School in Albuquerque, NM. After graduating, he received a scholarship to the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston MA. While studying at Berklee, Ray performed with many different ensembles. Ray graduated from Berklee cum laude with a degree in music education, then moved to ...

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Rale Micic to Perform at 2010 JJA Jazz Awards

Source: Michael Ricci
June 9, 2010

New York, NY - On Monday afternoon, June 14, Rale Micic, who is being hailed as “one of the most interesting young guitarists on the New York City scene", will perform at the 14th annual JJA Jazz Awards. His brand new release, symbolically titled “3", is an entrancing trio record featuring Gregory Hutchinson (Ray Brown, Joshua Redman, Joe Henderson) and Scott Colley (Jim Hall, Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker). “3", already recognized by listeners and critics alike, is described as “ ...

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Summer's Near and Jazz is in the Air

Source: The Augmented Ear by John Patten
June 9, 2010

Last night launched John Henry Goldman's summer series of performances at Labyrinth Books on Nassau Street in Princeton, which will continue each Wednesday night through July. If you missed it, you can catch John Henry, with Luke Abruzzo, Gary Schaeffer and Mike Ipri at Tre Pieni in Forestal Village at 7:30 p.m. Saturday night. Friday, you can catch the VooDudes at the South Brunswick Jazz Cafe at 8 p.m., Dick Gratton at the Chambers Walk Cafe in Lawrenceville from ...

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Christian McBride, Peter Martin to Perform Saturday, September 11 at the Sheldon

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 9, 2010

Peter Martin has announced the next concert in his eponymous series at the Sheldon Concert Hall: a duo show with bassist Christian McBride on Saturday, September 11. McBride played Jazz at the Bistro last November with his group Inside Straight (including Martin on piano), and is scheduled to return to the Bistro in March 2011 with pianist Benny Green and drummer Gregory Hutchinson for a tribute to bassist Ray Brown. The McBride/Martin concert will be the fourth in the pianist's ...

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Lisle Atkinson's Neo Bass Ensemble "A Bass Extravaganza," All-Star Bass Line-up and More @ Symphony Space, June 11, 8PM

Source: The Cinarae Group
June 9, 2010

In it's fifth consecutive year at Symphony Space, Karlisle Pro 1 presents Lisle Atkinson's NEO BASS Ensemble, a unique multi-bass ensemble that features the bass as “lead" instrument, putting the full range of the double bass on display: from lead instrument, harmonic front line, solo and rhythm section for a concert that's history in the making! Witness a reunion of former members of the famous Bill Lee New York Bass Violin Choir (Lisle Atkinson, Ron Carter, Richard Davis, Michael Max ...

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Landon Knoblock's Realistic Band and Austin McMahon's Many Muses Perform at the Brooklyn Lyceum

Source: Michael Ricci
June 9, 2010

On Wednesday, June 16th, hear Austin McMahon's Many Muses and Landon Knoblock's Realistic Band at the Brooklyn Lyceum, starting at 8pm. The Brooklyn Lyceum is located at 227 4th Ave in Park Slope, Brooklyn. R Train to Union St. $10 cover. The Landon Knoblock Realistic Band performs music composed entirely on a 1987 Radio Shack Realistic Concertmate 650 Sampling Keyboard. Blurring the lines between jazz, avant-garde, rock, and ambient, the group invents a new sound that ...

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