Performance / Tour News

Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik at Green Hours (Romania) on March 4th

Source: Michael Ricci
February 18, 2010

Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik come back to Romania, after two very successful Festival appearances at Sibiu Jazz Festival and Ploiesti Hot Jazz Summit in 2007, they perform at Green Hours, the most well known jazz club in Bucharest, Romania, at the 4th of March 2010. The Show starts at 21:00. greenhours.ro

Michaela Rabitsch--singer and Austria's only female top jazz trumpet player--described as “a modern day female Chet Baker" by the US Jazz magazine Jazzscene --and her ingenious partner - ...

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Nos Novo, Featuring James Shipp and Jo Lawry, Kicks Off New Music Series "This is Irish Music"

Source: Michael Ricci
February 17, 2010

With Strange Sweethearts in America Evening Features Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter Becca Stevens as a Special Guest New York, New York -- The Irish Arts Center is proud to launch their new music series THIS IS IRISH MUSIC with the Celtic/Brazilian/Jazz fusion band Nos Novo, featuring Jo Lawry and James Shipp. THIS IS IRISH MUSIC: NOS NOVO'S STRANGE SWEETHEARTS IN AMERICA performs on Thursday, March 11 at 8 PM at the Irish Arts Center (553 West 51st Street, between 10th and 11th ...

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Brazilian Carnaval at Club Nokia

Source: Michael Ricci
February 18, 2010

Shake a tail feather as dance clubs and samba bands re-create Rio's festivities.

The music is pumping at Dance Studio No. 1 in West Los Angeles as instructor Diane Yakimovicz urges her students faster and faster, their footwork a dazzling blur. With hardly a breather, she forms them into a conga line, hands on each other's hips. There's no point being coy, as strangers' bodies bump up against each other in a sweaty unison of movements. “It's a great chain ...

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Bela Fleck Performs in Ottawa After Grammy Success!

Source: Michael Ricci
February 18, 2010

“...traditional African music turns out to suit him [Béla Fleck] beautifully" - The New York Times

Recently Béla Fleck's latest CD, Throw Down Your Heart, won two GRAMMY awards for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Contemporary World Music Album. On Monday, March 1, the Ottawa Jazz Festival presents, a unique one-of-a-kind concert. Fleck will be joined by African superstars Bassekou Kouyate and Anania Ngoliga. The concert will take place at Dominion-Chalmers United Church, 355 Cooper Street, (corner Cooper and ...

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Jazz This Week: Dr. John and the Neville Brothers, Freddy Cole, Galactic and Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
February 18, 2010

Fat Tuesday has come and gone, but the musical spirit of Mardi Gras is lingering just a bit in St. Louis, as we've got three significant New Orleans acts performing in town over the weekend, plus several other events of interest to jazz fans.Let's go to the highlights, starting tonight when singer and pianist Freddy Cole returns to St. Louis to open a four night engagement at Jazz at the Bistro. The brother of legendary singer-pianist Nat “King" ...

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Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and the Way of the Guitar

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2010

Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton have never done a joint interview until now. On the eve of their historic first-ever co-headlining tour, Rolling Stones David Fricke sits in with the two guitar legends as they discuss old rivalries, blues heroes and the secrets of their craft in our new issue, on sale at newsstands today. The pair chat about their experiences with Jimi Hendrix, possible set lists for their upcoming shows (compositions by Charles Mingus and Albert Collins are on ...

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We Are Plastic Ono Band

Source: Michael Ricci
February 18, 2010

Amid All That Experience, Innocence

In some ways Yoko Ono is still an amateur. At We Are Plastic Ono Band, mixing concert and tribute at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday night, her voice could be shaky and her stage patter giggly and unplanned. She looked genuinely surprised when the audience interrupted her and sang Happy Birthday. (She turns 77 on Feb. 18.) Shes also untamed. She can still let loose the bleats, wails, yips, howls and shrieks that ...

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New Release from Newport Jazz 1960 - Afternoon Blues Featuring Muddy Waters

Source: Wolfgang's Vault
February 17, 2010

Just released, from the Wolfgang's Vault collection of Newport Jazz 1960 - an afternoon of Blues that might have been the end for Newport Jazz. The performances recorded and digitized for your free streaming or download pleasure include several notable moments by: Langston Hughes - narrator Muddy Waters - guitar, vocals Otis Spann - piano Tal Harris - guitar Andrew Stevens - bass James Cotton - harmonica Francis ...

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