Performance / Tour News

Randy Newman at Royce Hall

Source: Michael Ricci
February 21, 2010

Randy Newman's best, most pointed songs usually will come around again with enough time, timely once more either from history repeating itself, or mankind living up to his worst expectations. At his concert Friday for UCLA Live at Royce Hall, his quietly wounded and defiant “Louisiana 1927" told of another generation's devastating flood, but had new poignancy in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. And, sadly, the biting, hilarious detail of 1972's “Political Science" may never lose its relevance: “They all ...

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Celebrating Chopin's 200th Birthday at the Zipper

Source: All About Jazz
February 20, 2010

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Riccardo Chailly and the World's Oldest Orchestra at Disney Hall

Source: Michael Ricci
February 20, 2010

The sunny Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly has a knack for landing where youd least expect him and making a go of it. He is music director of what used to seem the eternally starchy Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

They began a U.S. tour with a Beethoven date in the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Wednesday night. This German orchestra, the worlds oldest, is starchy no more.

Just how old is the Leipzig ensemble, which takes its name from its concert hall, ...

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Ted Nash - Portrait in Seven Shades

Source: All About Jazz
February 20, 2010

We are thrilled for Ted Nash and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for presenting Jazz & Art II at the Rose Theater on February 4-6, featuring Nash's Portrait in Seven Shades.

The concept of fusing jazz & art is used as the basis for this multi- media experience. These iconic paintings are reinterpreted through seven new jazz compositions, creating a mlange of sights and sounds.

Ted Nash and the Jazz at Lincoln Center it's brand new release, which was ...

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Yes, Two Guitar Idols Are Better Than One

Source: Michael Ricci
February 20, 2010

Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton performed in the first of their two shows at Madison Square Garden. The musicians performed together at the end of the concert, with Steve Gadd on drums. At 10:30 on Thursday night, the Eric Clapton-Jeff Beck concert at Madison Square Garden woke up. After playing individual sets, the guitarists faced each other on stage for a final stretch. They took their poses with guitars: Mr. Beck hunched and leaning on his back foot, Mr. Clapton ...

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Upcoming Concerts Across the Southland

Source: All About Jazz
February 20, 2010

Honda Center Los Tres with Joan Sebastian, Alejandro Fernandez and Marco Antonio Solis April 9 (Fri.)

Gibson Amphitheatre Ramon Ayala April 17 (Fri.)

El Rey Theatre Ethan Bortnick and his Musical Time Machine Feb. 28-March 1 High on Fire April 23 the Hold Steady May 5 (Fri.)

Arlington Theatre Daniel Tosh April 24 (Sat.)

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A Night in Berlin the Jazz Age at Royce Hall

Source: Michael Ricci
February 20, 2010

Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester. It's the sound of romance. Horns sing with reeds and strings, seeming to set the very air dancing to the rhythms of waltzes, fox trots and pasodobles.

A man, dressed impeccably in tie and tails, steps up to a mike and, in a focused, rounded falsetto, completes the close, perfect harmony. This could be a musical interlude from a 1930-vintage movie, but for a couple of days this week, it is the past as ...

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Marcus Roberts Reprises His Seminal 1990 Release "Deep in the Shed"

Source: Michael Ricci
February 20, 2010

This Saturday, February 20th, award-winning jazz pianist Marcus Roberts and The Marcus Roberts Septet will perform two historic reprises of Roberts' 1990 release 'Deep in the Shed' during Tallahassee's “Seven Days of Opening Nights" concert series in Turner Auditorium at Tallahassee Community College. “The beauty of the compositions came through clearly...carefully arranged and packed with incident and contrast, “ raved the New York Times of a 2008 performance of 'Deep in the Shed' at Jazz at Lincoln Center. “This suite ...

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