Performance / Tour News

NY Vocalist Nancy Kelly Performs Live at Vitello's (Studio City) on March 22

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2010

Nancy Kelly will perform with the Llew Matthews Trio Upstairs at Vitello's Jazz & Supper Club in Studio City. There will be two shows 8p & 10p. Reservations at 818-769-0905 are highly recommended for this rare appearance."Nancy Kelly's refined vocal style is a study in phrasing, style and the ability to swing. Kelly's powerful singing has captured many awards and the ears of many jazz fans around the globe. With a new CD that continues to demonstrate why critics have ...

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Orbital's Triumphant Return to the US

Source: Michael Ricci
March 16, 2010

Orbital US dates: Saturday, March 27 - Miami Florida - Bicentennial Park - Ultra Festival - Headlining Saturday Friday, April 16 - San Francisco - Warfield Theatre - 10:15 tentative set time Sunday, April 18th - Indio, CA - Coachella

Contemporaries of the Chemical Brothers and Underworld, Orbital enjoyed a dazzling 15-year stint before bowing out gracefully four years ago. Raised in suburban Sevenoaks, near the M25 orbital motorway which inspired their name, Paul ...

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Gilberto Gil Makes Chicago Symphony Center Debut Friday April 2

Source: Michael Ricci
March 15, 2010

The Chicago Symphony Center Presents series of outstanding world music concerts brings legendary Brazilian singer-guitarist Gilberto Gil to Chicago for his Symphony Center debut on Friday, April 2, at 8 p.m. In this special program, entitled “The String Concert," he is joined by his son Bem Gil (guitars) and cellist Jaques Morelenbaum, and together the trio re-imagines acoustic interpretations of his enormous catalog.

Gilberto Gil has had led an acclaimed, four-decade career as a singer, composer and guitar player of ...

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From Jazz to Avant Garde at Carnegie Hall

Source: Michael Ricci
March 15, 2010

In April and May, renegade Dutch composer Louis Andriessen comes to Carnegie Hall as holder of this season's Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair. Highlights of his spring residency include:

A program featuring the New York premiere of Andriessen's Symphony for Open Strings as well as works by young American composers whom he has mentored on Friday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m.The program includes the world premiere performances of Missy Mazzoli's These Worlds in Us (new orchestration), Michael Fiday's Gonzo ...

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Las Vegas Strip Performances

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2010

Lionel Richie The Colosseum At Caesars Palace Mar 26 through 28th

Wayne Newton Tropicana Mar 16 through 24th

Blue Man Group The Venetian - Resort, Hotel, Casino 3355 South Las Vegas Boulevard Mar 14, 21 & 28, April 1st and 2nd

Metric House of Blues - Las Vegas 3950 Las Vegas Boulevard Mar 25

Jay-Z ...

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Dee Dee Bridgewater Channels Billy Holiday

Source: Michael Ricci
March 15, 2010

The lights of Manhattan glittered in the background, as jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater set her sights on bass player Christian McBride.

Cooing, crooning and creeping toward him on the stage, she sang an up-tempo, sexually suggestive blues, moaning “Oooh" and “Aaah" as an erotic tension built, stopping just short of physical contact.

It was a trademark moment for one of the jazz world's most celebrated divas, but it was also incongruous: Bridgewater had just sung “Mother's Son in Law," ...

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Half the Beatles' Play the Cahuenga Pass

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2010

Bob Eubanks booked The Beatles' August 23rd 1964 for a performance at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The Fab Four returned a year later. The summer of 2010 the two remaining members return to play across the Cahuenga Divide from each others current bands.

Paul McCartney returns to Hollywood Bowl on March 30th and 31st.

Paul McCartney will play the Hollywood Bowl on March 30 & 31st, his first concert at the venue since 1993, as part of ...

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Jazz Bridge Presents Denise King at the Cheltenham Arts Center on April 7th

Source: Michael Ricci
March 14, 2010

Appearing at the Cheltenham Arts Center, 439 Ashbourne Rd., Cheltenham, PA, on Wednesday April 7th will be jazz vocalist Denise King and her trio, featuring pianist Aaron Graves, bassist Lee Smith, and drummer Lucky Thompson.

One show: 7:30-9PM. Tickets: $10/$5 for students. No advance sales. Free Refreshments! For info: 215-517-8337

The Cheltenham Jazz Bridge Neighborhood Concerts are partially funded by a grant from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts in partnership with the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.

Denise King is ...

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