Performance / Tour News

Concert Connects the Dots Between Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
March 7, 2010

Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra presents a tribute to two groundbreaking jazz players and composers, Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus. The musicians were contemporaries, but their paths rarely crossed in life.

The pianist Thelonious Monk and bassist Charles Mingus were born and they died within a handful of years of each other. They both found early inspiration in Duke Ellington's music and had a large hand in shaping what we know to be modern jazz, yet the record shows their paths ...

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Double Naught Spy Car Every Thursday in March @ Taix

Source: SoCal Creative Music
March 7, 2010

More fun Thursday nights at Taix with the avant-garde, surf styling's of Double Naught Spy Car.About: L.A. Weekly Music Awards Best Instrumental Band of 2002, burst from Tinsletown's contorted psyche to provide underscore for America's descent into an opiated social contract and overt corporate tyranny. In sweat drenched shows harkening back to 1950s jazz clubs, the grinding Telecaster and spasmodic steel of Paul Lacques, the gurgling Stratocaster of Marcus Watkins, the revisionist/reductionist bass of Marc Doten, and the ...

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Open Gate Presents: Michael Vlatkovich Trio and the George McMullen Trio

Source: SoCal Creative Music
March 7, 2010

Open Gate Presents:Trombones! The Thirteen year of the the series.With Michael Vlatkovich Trio and the George McMullen Trio.Two of the best trombonists in LA with two kick-ass rhythm sections to back them up! Really not to be missed. Trombone gets a bad rap and is the butt of a lot of jokes...silliness. Come hear these masters play and have your attitude to The Bone altered forever!Sunday, March 7, 2010 7:00pm - ...

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Zappa Alumni Don Preston and Bunk Gardner @ Hollywood Studio Bar and Grill

Source: SoCal Creative Music
March 7, 2010

Wow! Two Zappa alumni playing together on St Patrick's Day! Should be a great time. Played after Preston at Jimmy Carl Black's memorial a couple of years ago and he and the band sounded great. Go see a legend!DON PRESTON AND BUNK GARDNERWednesday, March 17, 20107:00pm - 11:30pm HOLLYWOOD STUDIO BAR & GRILLDOLORES PETERSEN PRESENTS:THE DON AND BUNK SHOWST. PATRICK'S DAY BASHZappa had decided to expand to ...

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Accordionist Guy Klucevsek Solo Concert @ Royal/T

Source: SoCal Creative Music
March 7, 2010

Rare appearance of world renowned accordionist, Guy Klucevsek @ Royal/T. Fair price, great place, out of this world music.$12 general admission / $8 students Thursday, March 18, 20108:00pm - 10:00pmRoyal-T 8910 Washington Blvd Culver City, CA GUY KLUCEVSEK has created a unique repertoire for accordion through his own composing and by commissioning over 50 works from composers including John Zorn, Fred Frith, Lois V Vierk, Alvin Lucier, and many others.

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Angel City Art's Presents: Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet in Hollywood

Source: SoCal Creative Music
March 7, 2010

Well, Rocco's at it again and this time he is presenting Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet in their first performance in LA since their Redcat performacne a couple of years ago.Quartet includes the high rising pianist Vijay Iyer, and veterans John Lindberg on bass and Pheeroan Aklaff on drums. There will also be a guest performance by Motoko Honda.Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartetone night only, April 3rd!Lauded as “one of the most vital ...

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Yes and Peter Frampton Tour

Source: JamBase
March 7, 2010

GRAMMY AWARD WINNERS YES & PETER FRAMPTON ANNOUNCE NATIONAL CO-HEADLINE SUMMER TOUR TO KICK OFF THIS JUNE

Peter Frampton Two of the most influential and ground-breaking artists of the 1970s YES and Peter Frampton are reuniting for a twenty-five city national co-headline summer tour, which kicks-off in early June and runs through the middle of July. The two performed stadium shows together in 1976, including a show to more than 100,000 at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. Tickets will ...

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Pow!: Alejandro Demogli at FB Lounge

Source: Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
March 6, 2010

I've written before about my love for Argentine jazz, an unexpected attraction that started on a Thursday night at Thelonious in Buenos Aires and continues to this day. Soon (fingers crossed), I'll be hosting a radio documentary on the composer Guillermo Klein and I've already spilled quite a bit of digital ink covering musicians such as Pipi Piazzolla and Dino Saluzzi. An untold story (at least in writing) of my relationship with Argentine jazz is my friendship with the guitarist ...

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