Performance / Tour News

Jack Johnson Heads 'To the Sea' with Free Santa Monica Gig

Source: Michael Ricci
May 15, 2010

The songs of low-key romantic Jack Johnson have always been beach-ready, and the Hawaii-raised singer will promote the release of his upcoming “To the Sea" with a free show at the Santa Monica Pier.

Set for Monday, May 24, Johnson will take over the 3,000-capacity pier for a 75-minute set, his only show in the Los Angeles-area until October.

The concert will also serve to raise awareness for environmental nonprofit Heal the Bay. The bulk of tickets, therefore, will be ...

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Sonny Rollins, Nearly 80, Looks to the Future

Source: Michael Ricci
May 15, 2010

Jazz's tenor sax titan brings his pianoless group to Walt Disney Concert Hall Sunday. “I was really blessed to be born when and where I was," Sonny Rollins says.

In the mid-1950s, through the sheer gale force of his surging theme- and-variation solos, Sonny Rollins turned the tenor saxophone into jazz's iconic horn. Before Rollins, the trumpet and alto saxophone shared pride of place in jazz's frontline with the tenor. That's not to disregard the seminal contributions of tenor patriarch ...

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Sanfranola: SF and New Orleans Music Celebration 5/15

Source: JamBase
May 15, 2010

ROTARY DOWNS, SANFRANOLA BRASS BAND, JAZZ MAFIA HORNS, & MORE AT THE BOOM BOOM ROOM

Rotary Downs SANFRANOLA is a celebration of the cultural connection between San Francisco and New Orleans. The music, the food, and the art are a rich part of the historical fabric that makes the two cities so unique.

Come to San Francisco's Boom Boom Room and join artists like the Stooges Brass Band, Jazz Mafia Horns, Rotary Downs, DJ Brice Nice, and Jambalaya Girl this ...

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Review: Jakob Dylan at the Wiltern

Source: Michael Ricci
May 15, 2010

It couldn't have been by accident that the Wiltern Theatres stage lights were angled Thursday night so that Jakob Dylan's signature fedora rendered the upper part of his face obscured for much of his homecoming concert.

For much of the supernaturally gripping material on his exceptional new Women + Country album deals with the shadowy parts of life, ghosts and vacated homes and hearts. Those songs served as the anchor for what Dylan described as his first show in Los ...

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Live Review: James Taylor and Carole King at the Hollywood Bowl

Source: Michael Ricci
May 15, 2010

James Taylor and Carole King made no effort to disguise their ages Thursday night at the Hollywood Bowl, where the two sixtysomething singers played the first of three dates on their Troubadour Reunion trek. The world tour which stops Tuesday at the Santa Barbara Bowl and wraps July 20 at the Honda Center in Anaheim comes 40 years after Taylor and King first performed together at the cozy West Hollywood club that gives the road show its name; a live ...

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Jazz This Week: James Carter Organ Trio, Ozomatli, Tsigoti, Willerm Delisfort, Stephanie Trick, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
May 15, 2010

Though the biggest jazz name in St. Louis this weekend is a saxophonist, it's also a good week to hear some piano players, with four different events featuring talented pianists working in styles ranging from ragtime and stride to swing, bop and blues to free-form and experimental. Let's go to the highlights:Tonight, saxophonist James Carter's Organ Trio begins a four-night run at Jazz at the Bistro. A versatile performer with a wide stylistic range and serious chops on ...

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The Adam Ramsay/C.J. Glass Quintet Performs at the Iridium - Saturday, May 22nd

Source: Michael Ricci
May 15, 2010

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Free Jazz Concert: Carol Fredette & Trio in Monmouth (NJ)

Source: Michael Ricci
May 15, 2010

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