Performance / Tour News

Its a Joni Mitchell Concert, Sans Joni

Source: Michael Ricci
April 22, 2010

Actor and performance artist John Kelly channels the iconic singer-songwriter in his tribute show, Paved Paradise: The Art of Joni Mitchell. Even the real Mitchell is a fan.

“People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me they're too personal," Joni Mitchell explained last week during a rare interview. Apparently, nobody told John Kelly not to try adapting her songs. The renowned Obie Award-winning actor and performance artist has been belting out Mitchell's songs for more than 20 ...

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Enjoy a Big Band?

Source: The Augmented Ear by John Patten
April 22, 2010

If you enjoy big band music, there are precious few opportunities to hear one outside of New York City. One regular exception is the Jazz Celebration Big Band, which performs (almost) monthly at the Temperance House in Newtown, Pa. -- and will at 8 p.m. April 29.The band will also have an added attraction: former Woody Herman saxophonist Larry McKenna. As Cadence magazine noted in a review of one of McKenna's releases, he shows “the skills ...

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Jazz This Week: Peter Brotzmann and Hamid Drake, Daryl Sherman, Erin Bode and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 22, 2010

After a jam-packed calendar of offerings last week, this weekend offers a bit more breathing room for St. Louis fans of jazz and creative music. Still, there are several events worth noting, so let's go right to the highlights:For starters, it's the final weekend for the Black Rep's production of the Louis Jordan musical Five Guys Named Moe, which is playing through Sunday at the Grandel Theatre. The production was directed by Black Rep founder Ron Himes and ...

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Joao Gilberto Plays Carefusion Jazz NY, June 22, + Concerts in Boston & Chicago

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
April 21, 2010

CELEBRATE THE GENIUS OF JOO GILBERTO AT CAREFUSION JAZZ FESTIVAL NEW YORK ON JUNE 22, 8:00 PM, AT CARNEGIE HALL CareFusion Jazz Festival Takes Over New York June 17 - 26 Following CareFusion Jazz Festival New York, Joo Gilberto Makes Only Two Other Stops in the U.S. - Boston on June 25 and Chicago on June 29 NEW YORK, NY, April 20, 2010 - Experience The Genius of Joo Gilberto at the CareFusion Jazz Festival New York on Tuesday, June ...

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The Eagles Close out Their Hollywood Bowl Run

Source: Michael Ricci
April 21, 2010

On Tuesday night at the Hollywood Bowl, Glenn Frey welcomed Eagles fans to the final show of the bands three-night stand there with a bit of sly self-deprecation. We are the ancient ones, he said. And this is the Eagles assisted-living tour. As lines go, its a good one, and it drew sympathetic laughs from an audience seemingly packed with well-preserved old-timers from the groups days on the early-70s L.A. club scene. Yet if the joke acknowledged the improbability of ...

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Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green from Different Generations but on the Same Page

Source: Michael Ricci
April 21, 2010

Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green are alto saxophonists born 36 years apart. The younger, Mr. Mahanthappa, matured in the 1990s in New York after studying at Berklee College of Music. Mr. Green played in clubs as a teenager in Milwaukee in the early 1950s, when jazz was still a vernacular language, then went on to New York and Chicago, working with Charles Mingus and Sonny Stitt. But at times during the late set at the Jazz Standard on Tuesday, in ...

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The Wayne Escoffery Quartet at the Village Vangaurd - June 8th thru 13th, 2010

Source: Two for the Show Media
April 21, 2010

Saxophonist/Composer/Bandleader Wayne Escoffery will be performing with his Quartet at The Village Vanguard in NYC from Tuesday, June 8th , 2010 thru Sunday, June 13th, 2010. This is Wayne Escoffery's Village Vanguard debut as a leader.

Wayne Escoffery Quartet: Wayne Escoffery - Tenor Saxophone Kevin Hays - Piano Joe Martin - Bass Billy Drummond - Drums “A young, self-assured, hard-swinging tenor saxophonist" --Ben Ratliff - New York Times

“One of the most talented, poetic ...

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The Terrell Stafford Quartet on Tour

Source: CHC Network
April 21, 2010

One of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player. - McCoy Tyner

A set so solid and enjoyable isnt taking chances; its taking charge. V.R. Peterson JazzTimes

The TERRELL STAFFORD Quintet ON TOUR . . .

and in the studio May 11-19

The TSQuintet is: Terrell Stafford (trumpet), Tim Warfield Jr. (tenor & soprano sax), Bruce Barth (piano), Peter Washington (bass) & Dana Hall (drums)

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