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Kinky Friedman Announces First West Coast Performance Tour in Two Decades

Source: conqueroo
April 26, 2010

AUSTIN, Texas -- 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 (a full list of venues follows). Two members of Kinky's seminal band the Texas Jewboys, Little Jewford and Washington Ratso, will join him on the ...

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Whitney Houston's Voice Fails Her in Sold-out London Concert

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

LONDON Hundreds in the audience walked out of Whitney Houston's comeback concert here Sunday as the singer once dubbed “The Voice" missed high notes, cut short her songs and apologized for her shortcomings. “She don't want to come, my soprano friend," Houston crooned after stumbling through a gravelly version of signature song I Will Always Love You. She blamed the air conditioning in The O2 arena, whose 20,000 seats had sold out for her first London performance since 1999. “Sometimes ...

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Saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis at Iridium

Source: Michael Ricci
April 26, 2010

The saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis played just one original in his first set at Iridium on Thursday night, and it delivered the only dose of nonswinging groove. That ratio felt emphatic, like a statement of principle. Mr. Ellis, leading a cohort credibly billed as his all-star band -- with Mulgrew Miller on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums -- was signing on to a mainstream jazz program, accepting the terms and conditions. He seemed intent on ...

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In New Orleans, Jazz Fans Get Their Groove on Despite Rain

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

Nature gave the 2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival torrents of rain and fields of mud on Friday's opening day, but that made it easier for the undaunted faithful to dig deeply into the roots of American popular music. More than 60 acts representing the best of the region's and the nation's jazz, blues, country, Cajun, gospel, rock, brass band and zydeco traditions held their own against the natural thunder on a dozen stages as the 41st Fest began ...

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Southland Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

Playboy Jazz Festival Hollywood Bowl 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood The 32nd annual summer music party at the bowl returns, with performances by Chick Corea, George Benson, the Manhattan Transfer, Grammy-winning vocalist Kurt Elling, Cuban salsa greats Los Van Van, and fusion guitarist Marcus Miller with young trumpeter Christian Scott, who together have been exploring the music of Miles Davis' 1986 album “Tutu." June 12th 2:30 p.m. June 13th 2:00 ...

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New York Jazz Listings

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

CENTRAL BROOKLYN JAZZ FESTIVAL (Friday through Thursday) Tenor saxophonist Houston Person Friday Jazz 966 Fulton Street in Fort Greene Violinist Billy Bang Saturday Sistas Place Nostrand Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant Percussionist Neal Clarke Sunday New York Aquarium at Coney Island. Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street, near Clinton Street, Brooklyn Heights, ...

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Two Spring/Summer Concert Series Announce Schedules

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 26, 2010

The schedules have been announced for the Missouri History Museum's spring Twilight Tuesdays and for the fourth annual Whitaker Urban Evenings series, and while neither has much in the way of straight-ahead jazz, both will offer some concerts of potential interest to jazz fans in the St. Louis area.The Twilight Tuesdays series starts next Tuesday, April 27 with R&B vocal group L.L.C., and will include shows from the Latin band El Caribe Tropical (May 4), singer Anita Rosamond ...

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Norah Jones at the Orpheum Theatre

Source: Michael Ricci
April 26, 2010

It's hard to feel sorry for Norah Jones: At 31, she's already sold more records than most artists will over a lifetime, and despite her soccer-mom appeal, she's retained a kind of cool-musician cachet, collaborating in recent years with Bright Eyes, Beck and the Beastie Boys. In an unsteady music industry, hers is a success story with both commercial and creative dimensions. Still, on Friday night at the Orpheum Theatre, where Jones played a sold-out date on her current U.S. ...

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