Performance / Tour News

Jazz This Week: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Jamie Cullum, Marvin Horne, Ron Carter, Funky Butt Brass Band, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 11, 2010

It's going to be a jam-packed weekend of jazz and creative music in St. Louis, so, without further preamble, let's go straight to the highlights:Tonight, the Meramec Jazz Lab Band from St. Louis Community College-Meramec performs at the Black Cat Theatre in Maplewood. This evening also marks the beginning of the closing weekend for Vanessa Rubin in the Black Rep's production of Yesterdays: An Evening With Billie Holiday. The show runs through Sunday at the Grandel Theatre.

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Ceu's Spring Us Tour Includes Performance at Coachella Music & Arts Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
March 11, 2010

Brazilian phenomenon Ceu is returning to the US this Spring for the second time since her gorgeous sophomore album Vagarosa was released in July 2009 via Six Degrees Records. The cross-country tour kicks off with two shows in Seattle at the Triple Door on Monday, April 12 and Tuesday, April 13, and includes a performance at Coachella on Friday, April 16, in addition to covering Portland and San Francisco on the West Coast. Ceu and her five-piece band will also ...

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David Berger Jazz Orchestra with Freda Payne and Denzal Sinclaire at Dizzy's March 29

Source: Miller Wright & Associates
March 11, 2010

Debut Live Performance of the new CD, Sing Me A Love Song: Harry Warren's Undiscovered Standards.

Berger's big band and dynamic vocalists Freda Payne and Denzal Sinclaire bring to life long-lost songs from the archive of Hollywood composer Harry Warren, famous for 42nd Street, You'll Never Know, At Last, and hundreds of others. Lyrics by Paul Mendenhall and Ira Gershwin.

One night only, Monday, March 29, at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center, West 60th St. and Broadway, NYC. ...

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Filo Machado Joins Deanna Witkowski in Concert from 3/19-23 in VT, MA, NYC

Source: Michael Ricci
March 10, 2010

Sao Paulo-based guitarist/vocalist Filo Machado joins New York pianist/vocalist Deanna Witkowski in East Coast performances on 3/19, 3/20, and 3/23 Witkowski's playing is consistently thrilling, and her musical imagination seems boundless. --All Music Guide Deanna plays as if she were writing a letter to someone who does not exist. Her piano announces all the autumns yet to come. -Guinga, Rio-based guitarist/composer/vocalist Machado's ideas reach beyond one continent...he has cited Joyce and Flora Purim as influences, but he also has listened ...

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Get Exclusive San Francisco Presale Password and VIP Packages to see George Winston at Grace Cathedral (SF)

Source: Michael Ricci
March 10, 2010

Get exclusive first access for tickets to see George Winston LIVE at the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco on May 7th! Those who are subscribed to the official mailing list will get first chance this Friday, March 12th to purchase tickets to this hometown show.Sign up for the official mailing list here: georgewinston.com Also available with this presale will be access to exclusive VIP packages to the show that will include: 2 tickets seated in the first 3 ...

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Nate Wooley Quintet Performs Special Easter Concert

Source: Michael Ricci
March 10, 2010

The Nate Wooley Quintet stretches the limits of traditional context. Although the orchestration harkens back to the Blue Note recordings of Eric Dolphy, Wooley's compositions cover a much wider stylistic swath, from the jazz experimentalism and third stream sensibilities of trumpeters like Don Ellis and Shorty Rogers to the rigorous DIY canons of James Tenney, with stops at American lyricism and folk music and harsh noise along the way. Wooley has assembled a quintet of some of New York's finest ...

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Regina Carter Reverse Thread Tour

Source: Michael Ricci
March 10, 2010

World renowned Jazz violinist Regina Carter is gearing up to release her newest album, Reverse Thread, with a tour throughout the United States. For Reverse Thread, Regina collected African folk music from a variety of sources and infused it with her own contemporary twist while remaining true to the musics' origins. Regina added the kora, a West African harp traditionally played by village storytellers, and the accordion to her long-standing band. The result is uplifting and stirring music, which celebrates ...

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Jazz Vocalist Magos Herrera at Galapagos, Brooklin

Source: All About Jazz
March 10, 2010

MAGOS HERRERA CONCERT PRESENTED BY GALAPAGOS ART SPACE VISIONINTOART: FERUS FESTIVAL April 15, 2010, 10pm Cover 15 USdlls Magos Herrera, jazz vocalist and composer will present the music of her newest Grammy nominee album Distancia Sunnyside records. Line Up: Magos Herrera. Vocals Mike Moreno.Guitar Ricky Rodriguez. Bass Alex Kautz. Drums Directions to Galapagos at the corner of Water Street in DUMBO 16 Main Street ...

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