Performance / Tour News

Billy Joel and Elton John | 02.16 | CA

Source: JamBase
February 19, 2010

Images by: Casey Flanigan

Billy Joel & Elton John :: 02.16.10 :: HP Pavilion :: San Jose, CA

On Wednesday night (2/16), Billy Joel and Elton John continued their Face 2 Face tour at San Jose's HP Pavilion. Considered one of the most successful and longest-running concert pairings in pop history, JamBase photographer Casey Flanigan was there to capture this special night of legends.

Setlist

Elton and Billy Together: Your Song, Just the Way You Are, Don't Let the ...

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Tinges of Electro-Pop and Some Ives, Too

Source: Michael Ricci
February 19, 2010

Among the ways to pin down Kneebody, a resolutely unpin-downable band, a few come rooted in plain fact. The group uses a common jazz instrumentation trumpet, saxophone, rhythm section to make a somewhat less common amalgam of urban-signifying genres, from electro-pop to punk-rock to hip-hop. Four of its five members met in the late 1990s at the Eastman School of Music. Its most recent album, Twelve Songs by Charles Ives (Winter & Winter), featuring the vocalist Theo Bleckmann, was nominated ...

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Trumpeter/Composer Carl Fischer and the Organic Groove Ensemble Will Be Performing at the Joynt in Chicago on Friday March 5th, 2010

Source: Two for the Show Media
February 19, 2010

Trumpeter/Composer Carl Fischer & The Organic Groove Ensemble will be performing at The Joynt in Chicago, Ill. on Friday March 5th, 2010 in celebration of Carl Fischer's new release titled “Adverse Times"

Carl Fischer & The Organic Grove Ensemble

Carl Fischer—Trumpet Ladell Abrams—Drums Ron Oswanski—Organ Tom Garling—Trombone Guitar—TBA

Carl Fischer & The Organic Grove Ensemble The Joynt 650 North Dearborn Street Chicago, Ill. 60611

Friday March ...

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Thursday Features Two Big Shows

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
February 18, 2010

Two great shows to choose from on Thursday night.

SPEAK CD RELEASE SHOW - THE CHAPEL, 8pm from Earshot Jazz: Speak will release their much anticipated debut album at a special Chapel Performance Space release party on February 18 at 8pm. The great Seattle quintet consists trumpeter Cuong Vu, saxophonist Andrew Swanson, keyboardist Aaron Otheim, drummer Chris Icasiano, and bassist Luke Bergman. Adventurous, witty, energetic, and LOUD, Speak is a true ensemble that is set to command our ...

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Legendary McCoy Tyner to Play Intimate Show at Mahaiwe

Source: Michael Ricci
February 18, 2010

Pianist McCoy Tyner was just a teenager when Philadelphia neighbors like Bud Powell and the young Lee Morgan began hipping him to the sounds of modern jazz. Soon, Tyner was playing on his own, cutting his teeth with Benny Golson and Art Farmer, before being picked up -- at age 21 -- by John Coltrane, who asked the young musician to join what would become his “classic quartet." The now-71-year-old legend played with Coltrane for five years, appearing on seminal ...

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Popular Music: A Look at San Francisco Jazz's Spring Season

Source: Michael Ricci
February 18, 2010

The 2010 San Francisco Jazz spring season kicks off in a big way this weekend. The festivities begin Friday with two shows, at 8 and 10:30 p.m., by Cuban pianist Issac Delgado at San Francisco's Bimbo's 365 Club. At 8 p.m. Saturday, retro German crooner Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester visit the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. The weekend offerings conclude with world-music/psychedelic-rock ensemble Tinariwen at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco. From ...

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Unicycles at Douglass Street Music Collective on March 4

Source: Michael Ricci
February 18, 2010

On Thursday, March 4 at 9:00 p.m., Douglass Street Music Collective will present UNICYCLES, a relay-style series of solo performances by an ensemble cast of six up-and-coming Brooklyn improvisers. The members of the cast, who collaborate in various other groups including Gleason's Twins, Dollshot, and Cuddle Magic, will assemble one B-52 of sonic pleasure, piece by piece.

The evening will consist of improvisations-in-tandem, with solos occurring one after another in a continuous fashion. This continuity will allow for the musicians' ...

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Sten Hostfalt 3 or 4 at Spike Hill NYC Feat. Tim Luntzel & Marko Djordjevic

Source: Michael Ricci
February 18, 2010

Labeled “Impressive and Intense" by Time Out NY, “Groundbreaking" by Jazz Review and “Inimitable" by PM NYC/Paper Magazine, NYC virtuoso guitar phenom Sten Hostfalt's 3 or 4 featuring Grammy award-winning bassist Tim Luntzel, serbian-american drumming star Marko Djordjevic and Sten Hostfalt on guitar/composition appears live in concert at Spike Hill. Monday March 1, 2010 at 8.30pm one set only / no cover, no minimum. 184 Beford Ave. Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY 11221 spikehill.com * L train to ...

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