Performance / Tour News

Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures Tours East Coast; Yeyi Duo Tours Midwest

Source: Fully Altered Media
March 6, 2010

Composer & Master Percussionist Adam Rudolph Tours in March & April With Moving Pictures Quintet and Octet (Boston, New Haven, Teaneck, Philadelphia, New York City)

Yeyi Duet With Multi-Instrumentalist Ralph Jones Tours Midwest (Champaign-Urbana, Chicago, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Oberlin)

This March and April, master percussionist Adam Rudolph will tour the East Coast with a brand new edition of his Moving Pictures Quintet and Octet. Rudolph originally founded the group ...

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Concert Review: Turtle Island Quartet Takes Crossover Jazz to New Level

Source: Michael Ricci
March 5, 2010

Jazz performed by a string quartet? At first glance the two would seem mutually exclusive -- until Turtle Island Quartet showed the world how it could be done. Turtle Island Quartet, which played at BYU Thursday, has taken the concept of crossover to a new level -- infusing jazz playing with classical parameters and classical idioms with cutting edge jazz. The resulting mix is innovative, original and not easily imitated. Turtle Island Quartet is without question in a class by ...

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Greek Theatre, Gibson Amphitheatre Announce Upcoming Lineups

Source: All About Jazz
March 5, 2010

The Gibson will have several Latin music acts, including Gilberto Santa Rosa, Pepe Aguilar and Vicente Fernandez. Sugarland, the Go-Go's and Norah Jones will play the Greek. System of a Down's Serj Tankian, Spanish tenor Jose Carreras, L.A. rockers 30 Seconds to Mars, kid-friendly group the Wiggles and the MTV Movie Awards are among the highlights of the 2010 subscription concert series being announced jointly Friday by the Greek Theatre and Gibson Amphitheatre. Offerings include many veterans making return visits ...

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Saxophonist Lynn Riley to Appear at Habitat for Humanity Benefit

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
March 5, 2010

Saxophonist Lynn Riley to Appear at Fundraiser to Benefit Habitat for Humanity (Bucks County)

Habitat for Humanity of Bucks County will be hosting Lynn Riley, “Superwoman of the Sax," at Bucks County Community College in Newtown on March 27. The Jazz in Bloom concert will benefit Habitat's Youth United program and its goal to raise funds to build a home at the affiliate's current homebuilding site in Perkasie.

Bucks County residents Steve and Diane Silverhardt stepped forward to donate their ...

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Is It Clear?

Source: The Augmented Ear by John Patten
March 5, 2010

The last few weeks' performances have been scrambled by the weather -- a special event planned by John Bianculli has been delayed, possibly until April, and the Jazz Celebration Big Band February show at the Temperence House in Newtown, Pa., was called off.And to top it off, the launch of a new jazz jam in Hopewell, led by Jim Popik was pushed back to this week. But get over the Hopewell Valley Inn, at 15 E. Broad St. ...

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Swinging on the Hudson: An Unlikely Haven for Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
March 5, 2010

THE Pianist Fred Hersch seemed right at home here one recent Saturday night, onstage at the Falcon, a perfectly unlikely jazz haven in this Hudson Valley hamlet.

Leading a trio, he mingled standards and originals, including a graceful waltz with the appropriate title Snow Is Falling. The standing-room crowd, a few hundred strong, was lavish with its applause, never more so than when Mr. Hersch made a brief acknowledgment: I just want to congratulate Tony for putting this place together. ...

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Eclectic Jazz Quintet, the Outer Bridge Ensemble, Make Their Washington D.C. Debut at Blues Alley on March 29th

Source: Sound Visions Media
March 4, 2010

Ventura, CA -- In these days of contrived and over commercialized music it's refreshing to discover a group like The Outer Bridge Ensemble. Known as eclectic modern creative jazz that grooves with a soulful attitude, the Outer Bridge Ensemble weaves uncommon genres together like tango, funk, klezmer, punk, avant-garde, Indian music and classical music while maintaining solid and deliberate grooves. Individually the members of the Quintet have performed with such musical luminaries as Ray Charles, Sonny Rollins, Hank Jones, Wynton ...

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In a New York State of Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
March 4, 2010

AFRO-LATIN JAZZ ORCHESTRA Friday and Saturday The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra Goes Carioca with a focus on Brazilian music. At 8 p.m. Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street (212) 864-5400 symphonyspace.org

GABRIEL ALEGRA AFRO-PERUVIAN SEXTET Friday through Sunday African-influenced coastal music of his native Peru At 8 and 10:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and at 7 and ...

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