Performance / Tour News

Jazz Has a Swanky New Address - The Palio Bar

Source: Michael Ricci
February 24, 2010

"....the most elegant bar in midtown." - Zagat

The bar with the famous red mural named after a horse race in Italy is back! After an absence of a few years, Michael Cetrulo has reopened this location and named the bar Palio and the upstairs dining room Piano Due. While the bar area remains as charming and romantic as ever, the upstairs dining room has undergone a significant transformation.

On Friday evenings from 8 pm until 11 pm, ...

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Vinny Golia @ Asto Museum Feb. 27th, 8PM

Source: SoCal Creative Music
February 24, 2010

Los Angeles, musical legend, woodwind player/composer, Vinny Golia plays with his electric sextet this Saturday night @ The Asto Museum. The band features some of Los Angeles', best up and coming musicians. Not to be missed. Ensemble also includes:Gavin Templeton-Alto Sax Dan Rosenboom-Trumpet Alex Noice-GuitarJon Armstrong-Bass Andrew Lessman-DrumsFebruary, 27th, 8PMAsto Museum of Art 4505 Huntington Dr. South, Los Angeles, CA 90032 tel.323 343 8607 www.astomoa.org

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Jazz This Week: Vanessa Rubin as Billie Holiday, Jay Oliver, the Bosman Twins, McElwee's "Modular Mazes" and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
February 24, 2010

From a dramatic portrayal of a legendary diva to some straight-ahead and soulful jazz to a multimedia event with video, animation and an improvised soundtrack, there's lots going on in St. Louis this weekend to interest fans of jazz and creative music. Let's go to the highlights:Tonight, the Black Rep presents the first performance of its production of Yesterdays: An Evening with Billie Holiday starring Vanessa Rubin (pictured) as Holiday. The show runs Wednesdays through Sundays at the ...

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Jazz Pianist Ayako Shirasaki: Japan Tour Dates 2010

Source: Jan Matthies Music Management
February 24, 2010

New York based Ayako Shirasaki is not moving back to Japan full time as hoped for the fans by the Japan Times, but playing a tour giving the fans “improvisation at the highest level" as lately being put by a German Jazz Magazine.

Although playing most gigs as Piano Trio she'll also perform some solo piano pieces as reminiscence to the International Jazz Solo Piano Festival played at the same time in 2009.

In addition she presents the “Best of" ...

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Village Vanguard Week Celebration

Source: All About Jazz
February 24, 2010

FEBRUARY 23rd, 1935 So what happened on February 23rd, 1935? Max Gordon opened the doors to the Village Vanguard! And 75 years later, we're still in the same spot; the basement of 178 7th Avenue South.

The week of February 23rd - 28th, 2010 marks our 75th ANNIVERSARY!

And to honor the occasion, Joe Lovano lights up the bandstand with his group “Us Five" featuring James Weidman (piano), Esperanza Spalding (bass), Otis Brown III (drums), Francisco Mela (drums). ...

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Uri Caine Plays John Zorn at St. Peter's Church of Ireland on March 5

Source: Michael Ricci
February 24, 2010

Louth Contemporary Music Society's first concert for 2010 features a performance by the great American pianist Uri Caine in St. Peter's Church of Ireland Drogheda on 5 March 2010 at 8pm. Pianist and composer Uri Caine gleefully and artfully ignores the boundaries between musical genres, mixing up Mahler and Bach with original music, swinging bebop and hard-hitting drum-and-bass. He launches LCMS 2010 concerts by performing John Zorn's Book of Angel's Volume 6: Moloch. Moloch is a remarkable set of piano ...

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Mark Growden Gets All Dark and Dramatic Tonight at the Redwood Bar & Grill

Source: All About Jazz
February 24, 2010

Singer, songwriter, accordionist, banjoist and more. Mark Growden makes darkly dramatic music in the style of Tom Waits, as well as cagey covers of Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen and gospel tunes.

All are rendered with a faint sense of the macabre, or “American noir" (as he likes to put it), by his muscular voice coupled with baroque instrumental flourishes. He's almost ready to release his ninth studio album, Saint Judas, and will be back at the Hotel Cafe on March ...

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Michael Jackson Fans Line up at Disneyland for Return of 'Captain EO'

Source: Michael Ricci
February 24, 2010

Fans decked out in futuristic garb formed a line early Tuesday to see the return of the Michael Jackson film “Captain EO" to Disneyland after a 13-year hiatus. At 10 a.m., the 17-minute, science fiction-themed musical returns to the Tomorrowland Theater for limited engagement. It replaces “Honey I Shrunk the Audience," which closed Jan. 3. “Captain EO" debuted at the height of Jackson's fame in 1986, featuring director Francis Ford Coppola and executive producer George Lucas. It cost a reported ...

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