Performance / Tour News

Chicago Live Jazz Music Schedule (May 1-May 8, 2010)

Source: JAZZzology by Richard Watters
May 3, 2010

Here is what's happening with the live Chicago Jazz Scene for the dates May 1st thru May 8th, 2010...Alive One, Chicago (773) 348-9800Call for updated performance informationAndy's Jazz Club11 East Hubbard St.Chicago, IL 60611312.642.6805May & JuneSundays - 5pm Jordan Baskin Trio / 9pm Andy's Jam SessionMondays - 5 pm May-Hal Tsuchida Trio / 9pm Guy King's Organ Trio5 pm June - Chicago Jazz Orchestra/ 9pm Guy King's Organ ...

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Air Department fuses world music with jazz for new CD

Source: Michael Ricci
May 1, 2010

Once described by a fan as sounding like “an eight-piece duo," The Air Department produces sounds unusually immense for just two musicians. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and engineer Roger Ebacher performs original music using keyboards, keyboard bass, melody flute, wood flute, a Casio DH-100 digital horn, kalimba, congas, bongos and doumbek. He's joined by Dennis Pelletier on drums. The two combine to create world jazz influenced by an eclectic mix of music from Brazil, the Middle East and India. “It's adventurous," ...

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Stephanie Jordan to Perform for Mayor-Elect Mitch Landrieus Inauguration

Source: Sylvain Music Notes
May 3, 2010

NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan is one of the featured performers for the May 3, 2010 Inauguration of New Orleans Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu. Jordan is scheduled to perform at 1:45 P.M. during the Celebrate New Orleans Festival which will be held at Lafayette Square across the street from Gallier Hall. Jordan says that she honored to be a part of the festivities. In tribute of those being sworn in, I will sing an up-tempo version of ...

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Tom Braxton's Groundbreaking First European Tour as Ambassador of Smooth Jazz

Source: Sound Visions Media
May 3, 2010

Jazz saxophonist and composer, Tom Braxton recently made his first European appearance on a tour in the Netherlands, which kicked off on March 31st and wrapped up on April 4th. Smooth Jazz Europe organized and sponsored the groundbreaking tour that featured Braxton in concert in five different cities highlighting the music from his current CD release, Endless Highway, on the Pacific Coast Jazz label. “It was fantastic to have a great sax player like Tom Braxton come to the Netherlands," ...

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Pearl Jam Jolt New Orleans Jazz Fest with Powerhouse Set

Source: All About Jazz
May 3, 2010

" I'd like to make a toast to the fine folks at BP," Eddie Vedder said, raising a bottle of wine at last night's show in New Orleans. “Send your sons and daughters to clean up your fucking mess." While Pearl Jam rocked the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico crept closer to the Louisiana coast. Even Vedder's wardrobe spoke to the environmental crisis: he wore a Mr. Bill Show T-shirt the ...

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West Coast Cool: The Jazz Sound of '50s California

Source: All About Jazz
May 3, 2010

When someone talks about “West Coast jazz" or “cool jazz," they're almost invariably referring to a style performed by jazz musicians in California (and primarily in Los Angeles) in the '50s and early '60s.

As opposed to the hard-bop sound dominant on the East Coast during that time, the West Coast sound was a bit mellower and more lyrical, with blended harmonies and broadly speaking more interest in composition and arrangement than improvisation. West Coast players also tended to experiment ...

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Kinky Friedman Announces First Tour of the West Coast in Two Decades

Source: conqueroo
May 2, 2010

Former Texas gubernatorial candidate, political commentator and self-proclaimed “author, columnist, musician and beautician" Kinky Friedman will perform on the West Coast this summer for the first time in nearly 20 years. Dates for the Go West Young Kinky Tour of 2010 start on July 26th in Vancouver and continue into August. Two members of Kinky's seminal band the Texas Jewboys, Little Jewford and Washington Ratso, will join him on the tour. No prisoners will be taken. Only the strong shall ...

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NYMag's Jazz Nightlife Agenda

Source: Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
May 2, 2010

Astute and obsessive readers of New York magazine might have noticed that, from this year's issue 8 (mid-March) onward, the magazine's jazz listings have undergone a slight, but nonetheless perceptible, change. Prior to issue 8, the magazine's two weekly jazz listings (there are more online) were almost always restricted to the goings on at Blue Note and Birdland. From issue 8 onward, the listings' scope has broadened significantly, championing events at the Jazz Gallery, Smalls, the Kitchen, and Galapagos, to ...

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